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NCES Data Use Project. 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.
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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