State Test Data and School Improvement Efforts

Autor:	Elliot H. Weinbaum, Jessica K. Beaver
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	State (polity) business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Accountability Public relations business Psychology Social psychology Education Qualitative research media_common Utilization Test data
Zdroj:	Educational Policy. 29:478-503
ISSN:	1552-3896 0895-9048
DOI:	10.1177/0895904813510774
Popis:	Although much has been written about the potential benefits of effective data use in schools, considerably less attention has been paid to how schools make sense of the data generated from performance-based accountability measures. This article explores schools’ usage of state test data, the intensity of data use, and the perceived utility of state test data. Our findings uncover nuanced differences in school data use and reveal a key disconnect in the assumptions of performance-based accountability systems, wherein schools may faithfully use state data to inform improvement efforts while fundamentally questioning the validity of the data itself.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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