This guide is designed for educators who are beginning to learn how to use data for school improvement. It offers foundational information on types of data, strategies for analyzing and understanding data, and methods for determining how these efforts can influence goals and planning.
While many educators may think that Data-Driven Decision-Making is a new conversation instigated by the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), in fact, it reflects a larger societal trend. In nearly every national and international industrial sector, the world is witnessing the ability of large networks to collect data and, therefore, transform the understanding of how enterprises successfully function.
Levin, D., & Arafeh, S. (2002). The digital disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools (Pew Internet and American Life Project). Washington, DC: American Institutes for Research.
In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.
In support of student research, SAS launched the SAS Fellowship Program for the United States, Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean in 2006. This program gives students the opportunity to use SAS software, the world’s leading analytic and business intelligence software, for research purposes.
This competitive program gives students a free six-month license for SAS software to use in their research. Undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students from the United States, Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean are eligible to apply to participate in the program, which will accept a limited number of students.
This is the actual survey data that concludes: "The survey reveals a nation whose book readers, on the whole, can hardly be called ravenous. The typical person claimed to have read four books in the last year -- half read more and half read fewer. Excluding those who hadn't read any, the usual number read was seven."
The CiteULike database is potentially useful for researchers in various fields. Physicists and computer scientists have expressed an interest in trying to analyse the structure of the data, and frequently ask for datasets to be made available.
Previously this was done on an ad-hoc basis, and it relied on us remembering to update the data file. Now, there is an automatic process which runs every n
Visual displays of data--interesting methods and approaches using modern web tools.
Blog post with good Tufte and Inman design links.
Interesting data sets from Internet, Economic, Finance, and real estate sectors.
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This guide is designed for educators who are beginning to learn how to use data for school improvement. It offers foundational information on types of data, strategies for analyzing and understanding data, and methods for determining how these efforts can influence goals and planning.
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