NCES Data Use Project NCES Data Use Project

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 2

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 3

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 4

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/ 5

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 6

Questions or Comments? Kashka Kubzdela National Center for Education Statistics U. S. Department of Education 1990 K Street, NW Room 9014 Washington, DC 20006 Telephone: (202) 502 -7411 Email: Kashka. Kubzdela@ed. gov Sandy Eyster Education Statistics Services Institute American Institutes of Research 1990 K Street, NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20006 Telephone: (202) 403 -6149 Email: seyster@air. org 7