Project
The American Educator Panels
Jul 3, 2018
Schools and districts have invested heavily in data management systems; school principals, in particular, make countless decisions that could benefit from access to data. This American Educator Panels Data Note provides insights into middle and high school principals' access to several types of data about their students' outcomes and experiences, along with the ways in which principals report using those data.
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Schools and districts across the United States have invested heavily in data management systems to facilitate educators' access to data that can inform their work. School principals, in particular, make countless decisions that could benefit from access to data in these systems. Principals also help create cultures of data use within their schools, providing guidance and supporting the conditions that enable other school staff to use data effectively and appropriately. Using results from a nationally representative survey of principals from the RAND Corporation's American Educator Panels, the authors examine middle and high school principals' access to several types of data about their students' outcomes and experiences, along with the ways in which principals report using those data. The authors also explore principals' reports regarding collaborations with leaders of other schools around data use because this type of collaboration can provide useful professional learning opportunities.
The research described in this report was conducted by RAND Education and Labor and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, and the Overdeck Family Foundation.
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