Attending to Data: Exploring the Use of Attendance Data within the Datafied School

Autor/inn/en	Selwyn, Neil; Pangrazio, Luci; Cumbo, Bronwyn
Titel	Attending to Data: Exploring the Use of Attendance Data within the Datafied School
Quelle	In: Research in Education, 109 (2021) 1, S.72-89 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Selwyn, Neil)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-5237
DOI	10.1177/0034523720984200
Schlagwörter	Data Analysis; Data Use; Attendance; School Personnel; School Administration; Information Storage; Secondary School Students; Measurement; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Auswertung; Anwesenheit; Schulpersonal; Informationsspeicherung; Sekundarschüler; Messverfahren; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Contemporary schooling is seen to be altering significantly in light of a combined 'digitisation' and 'datafication' of key processes. This paper examines the nature and conditions of the datafied school by exploring how a relatively prosaic and longstanding school metric (student attendance data) is being produced and used in digital form. Drawing on empirical data taken from in-depth qualitative studies in three contrasting Australian secondary schools, the paper considers 'anticipatory', 'analytical' and 'administrative' aspects of how digitally-mediated attendance data is produced, used and imagined by school staff. Our findings foreground a number of constraints, compromises and inconsistencies that are usually glossed-over in enthusiasms for 'data-driven' education. It is argued that these findings highlight the messy realities of schools' current relationships with digital data, and the broader logics of school datafications. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01