Enhancing Data Use for Student Success
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NCES Data Use Project • Goal Help inform states and districts’ efforts to provide effective decision support systems to schools and classrooms designed to support improving student outcomes • Addressing needs expressed by states and districts
Current Activities • Understand • Data use in schools • Frameworks for data use • Research on data use • Review of literature • Conversations with experts • Researchers • Education organizations • Practitioners
Data Use Today • Data collection surpasses analysis and use • Schools develop and use own systems • Barriers vs. facilitators to data use • Research on effective data use beginning • Promising practices on the rise
Upcoming Department of Education Publications • Institute of Education Sciences Practice Guide • Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making • Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development • Use of Education Data at the Local Level: From Accountability to Instructional Improvement • Supporting Teachers’ Ability to Use Data to Inform Instruction • Subscribe to IES updates via e-mail • ies.ed.gov/newsflash/
Fall 2009 Activities • Identify what additional information would help increase effective data use • Identify and disseminate promising practices • Questions to be answered with data • Data content • Data delivery format • Data use supports and infrastructure • Data informed decision making
Questions or Comments? Sandy Eyster Education Statistics Services Institute American Institutes of Research 1990 K Street, NWSuite 500Washington, DC 20006 Telephone: (202) 403-6149 Email: seyster@air.org Kashka Kubzdela National Center for Education Statistics U.S. Department of Education 1990 K Street, NWRoom 9014Washington, DC 20006 Telephone: (202) 502-7411 Email: Kashka.Kubzdela@ed.gov