Resources: Data Driven Decision Making

Reports & Guidance

National Technology Plan (Department of Education: 2005), http://www.nationaledtechplan.org/default.asp

Jonathan Supovitz and Valerie Klein, Mapping a Course for Improved Student Learning: How Innovative Schools Systematically Use Student Performance Data to Guide Improvement (CPRE: Nov. 2003).

Using Data to Inform Decisions (Community Training and Assistance Center: May 2002).

Understanding How Superintendents Use Data in a New Environment of Accountability (MCREL: Nov. 2003).

Teacher Friendly Options to Improve Teaching Through Student Data Anaylsis (Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University, October 2003).

SOFTWARE ENABLING SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
THROUGH ANALYSIS OF STUDENT DATA (Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University, January 2004).

Using Data to Influence Classroom Decisions (United States Department of Education, 2004).

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School Improvement in MD: Analyzing and Using Data, School Improvement in Maryland, visited December 2004.

Data Use: Improving Education Practice Through Data Use, Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University, visited January 2005.

Educational Accountability, Center for Performance Assessment, visited December 2004.

Education Leadership Action Network, The Wallace Foundation, visited December 2004.

WEBCAST (requires Windows Media Player): Opportunities to Involve Teachers in Data-Based Decision-Making, CoSN School Networking Conference, March 3, 2004, Washington, DC.

"Selected Data Resources," COSN, visited January 2005.

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Models

Data-Driven Districts: Four districts that take different tacks using data to inform key decisions, ((School Administrator: 2002) http://www.aasa.org/publications/sa/2002_12/LaFee.htm, visited December 2004.

Case Study: Pittsburgh (SchoolNet: 2004). note that this is also corporate promotional information.

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