Systemic Data-Based Decision Making: A Systems Approach for Using Data in Schools

Autor/in	Walser, Tamara M.
Titel	Systemic Data-Based Decision Making: A Systems Approach for Using Data in Schools
Quelle	In: AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 6 (2009) 1, S.28-32 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1931-6569
Schlagwörter	Federal Legislation; Academic Achievement; Systems Approach; Educational Practices; Management Information Systems; Decision Making; Educational Administration; Educational Policy; Statistical Studies; Case Studies; Knowledge Management + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bundesrecht; Schulleistung; Systemischer Ansatz; Bildungspraxis; Managementinformationssystem; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Wissensmanagement
Abstract	No Child Left Behind has increased data collection and reporting, the development of data systems, and interest in using data for decision-making in schools and classrooms. Ends-driven decision making has become common educational practice, where the ends justify the means at all costs, and short-term results trump longer-term outcomes and the bigger educational picture. From narrowing the curriculum, to the "bubble kids" phenomenon of teachers focusing on students who are near the cut-off for passing state achievement tests, to students getting paid for passing scores, ends-driven decision making has become part of schooling and exemplifies a current form of data-based decision making. However, if people chose to apply a systems approach to data-based decision making in schools, an approach that can help leaders view schools as complex living systems, they can increase the positive potential of data-based decision making to help educators make reasonable decisions about "means". The purpose of this article is to describe, using Toyota Motor Corporation as an example, how applying a systems approach to data-based decision making in schools can support school leaders and educators in making decisions about means--the internal operations of the school or classroom--and promote student and school success. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10