Data-based Decision Making in Education Challenges and Opportunities
In a context where schools are held more and more accountable for the education they provide, data-based decision making has become increasingly important. This book brings together scholars from several countries to examine data-based decision makin
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STUDIES IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP VOLUME 17 Series Editor Kenneth A. Leithwood, OISE, University of Toronto, Canada Editorial Board Christopher Day, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Stephen L. Jacobson, Graduate School of Education, Buffalo, U.S.A. Bill Mulford, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Peter Sleegers, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
SCOPE OF THE SERIES Leadership we know makes all the difference in success or failures of organizations. This series will bring together in a highly readable way the most recent insights in successful leadership. Emphasis will be placed on research focused on pre-collegiate educational organizations. Volumes should address issues related to leadership at all levels of the educational system and be written in a style accessible to scholars, educational practitioners and policy makers throughout the world. The volumes – monographs and edited volumes – should represent work from different parts in the world.
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Kim Schildkamp · Mei Kuin Lai · Lorna Earl Editors
Data-based Decision Making in Education Challenges and Opportunities
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Editors Kim Schildkamp Faculty of Behavioural Sciences University of Twente Enschede The Netherlands
Lorna Earl Aporia Consulting Ltd. Toronto, ON Canada
Mei Kuin Lai Woolf Fisher Research Centre School of Curriculum and Pedagogy The University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand
ISBN 978-94-007-4815-6 ISBN 978-94-007-4816-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4816-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012947059 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kim Schildkamp and Mei Kuin Lai
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Data-based Decision Making: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mei Kuin Lai and Kim Schildkamp
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3 Analysis and Discussion of Classroom and Achievement Data to Raise Student Achievement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mei Kuin Lai and Stuart McNaughton 4
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From “Intuition”- to “Data”-based Decision Making in Dutch Secondary Schools? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kim Schildkamp and Melanie Ehren
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Professional Attitudes to the Use of Data in England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher Downey and Anthony Kelly
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6 Approaches to Effective Data Use: Does One Size Fit All? . . . . .
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