Strategic Data Use in Education
Prepared for:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Developing a Coherent Plan for Effectively Using Data (In Focus Brief)
Associated Project
Data-driven decision making has been a catchphrase in education for the past decade. Everyone is for it, and who could object? Most agree that decisions from the classroom to the central office and the state education agency should be informed by good data. In practice, however, it is all too easy for data to leave educators and policymakers unmoved—or, worse yet, to drown them in extraneous information, rather than drive decisions that will improve classroom instruction, school performance, and student achievement.
This series of briefs offers recommendations and strategies for state officials, district-level staff, and system developers who seek to promote effective data use by decision makers and educators at any level of the education system. This brief focuses on developing a coherent plan for effectively using data. The other two briefs focus on considerations for developing or enhancing a data system and on supporting the effective use of a data system.
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