Data-based Decision Making in Education

1. Introduction
Kim Schildkamp, Mei Kuin Lai

2. Data-based Decision Making: An Overview
Mei Kuin Lai, Kim Schildkamp

3. Analysis and Discussion of Classroom and Achievement Data to Raise Student Achievement
Mei Kuin Lai, Stuart McNaughton

4. From “Intuition”- to “Data”-based Decision Making in Dutch Secondary Schools?
Kim Schildkamp, Melanie Ehren

5. Professional Attitudes to the Use of Data in England
Christopher Downey, Anthony Kelly

6. Approaches to Effective Data Use: Does One Size Fit All?
Elizabeth Archer, Vanessa Scherman, Sarah Howie

7. Improving Data Literacy in Schools: Lessons from the School Feedback Project
Jan Vanhoof, Goedele Verhaeghe, Peter Van Petegem, Martin Valcke

8. Implementation of a Data Initiative in the NCLB Era
Jeffrey C. Wayman, Daniel D. Spikes, Michael R. Volonnino

9. Towards Data-Informed Decisions: From Ministry Policy to School Practice
Robert Dunn, Sonia Ben Jaafar, Lorna Earl, Steven Katz

10. Conclusions and a Data Use Framework
Kim Schildkamp, Mei Kuin Lai

11. Data Use: Where to from Here?
Lorna Earl, Karen Seashore Louis

Keywords: Education, International and Comparative Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Teaching and Teacher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Learning & Instruction