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Nancy Smith; Claus von Zastrow – Education Commission of the States, 2022
When the COVID-19 pandemic drove schools online in March 2020, state education leaders were left without access to data needed to understand how best to support students. The pandemic revealed the strengths and limitations of state education data systems while inspiring new strategies for collecting, reporting and using data. In 2021, DataSmith…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Data, Data Collection, Pandemics
Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2014
REL Pacific at McREL, one of 10 Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), serves educators in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Hawai'i, the Republic of the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Family School Relationship, School Community Relationship, College Readiness
Lacefield, Warren E.; Applegate, E. Brooks; Zeller, Pamela J.; Van Kannel-Ray, Nancy; Carpenter, Shelly – Online Submission, 2011
This study describes a well-defined data-driven diagnostic identification and selection procedure for choosing students at-risk of academic failure for appropriate academic support services. This algorithmic procedure has been validated both by historical quantitative studies of student precedents and outcomes as well as by current qualitative…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, At Risk Students, Identification, Information Systems
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Shen, Jianping; Cooley, Van E.; Reeves, Patricia; Burt, Walter L.; Ryan, Lisa; Rainey, J. Mark; Yuan, Wenhui – International Review of Education, 2010
In response to the vast amounts of data associated with the accountability movement and the rhetoric of data-informed decision-making, we interviewed 16 principals to find out what streams of data they used and what decisions they made by using the data. We found that: (a) student achievement data are predominantly used to the extent of neglecting…
Descriptors: Accountability, Principals, Decision Making, Management Information Systems
Data Quality Campaign, 2010
Now that all 50 states and the District of Columbia are building statewide longitudinal data systems, the next step is to ensure that the information in these systems is used to improve student learning. The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) has identified 10 actions that states can take to ensure that the right data are available and accessible and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Feedback (Response), High School Graduates, Graduation Rate