edweek.org: Technology Counts 2006: Delving Into Data - 0 views
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shared by Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
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from the students' first years in school right up to that very day.
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Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10There is such a thing as too much information, but I get the point.
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Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10I 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.
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student identifiers,
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Data on Teachers Uneven
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use their data to help struggling teachers and to reward successful ones
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but the information is used in principals' evaluations of their teachers
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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."
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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.