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  • from the students' first years in school right up to that very day.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      There is such a thing as too much information, but I get the point.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      I worked for a compay that sold Pnnicle Analytics and the stuff you can learn from data mining is awesome. Especially when they make an intuitive interface.
  • student identifiers,
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      I can see how this would raise a lot of privacy concerns
  • Without links to other data, the usefulness of student identifiers is diminished,
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  • Data on Teachers Uneven
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      I can see how collecting data on teachers is a problem until we answer the question of how do we evaluate quality teachers. What if someone points to a implementation dip and uses that as grounds for termination?
  • use their data to help struggling teachers and to reward successful ones
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      I like how there is nothing negative. Data is used to help.
  • but the information is used in principals' evaluations of their teachers
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      But now its used in evaluations
  • While it's useful to have that kind of longitudinal data [for policy purposes]," he says, "one should not impute conclusions about the true depth of a child's intellectual development in terms of math, science, or whatever."
  • results on statewide tests aren't as useful as many policymakers think.
  • Students take the tests at the start of every quarter in every subject, and the results are available the same day. The data are broken down by the racial, ethnic, economic, and other subgroups used in NCLB accountability reports.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      I've never understood why it would take any longer.
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