1. NCES Data Use Project

2. 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

3. Current Activities Understand Review of literature
Data use in schools
Frameworks for data use
Research on data use
Review of literature
Conversations with experts
Researchers
Education organizations
Practitioners

4. 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
Data Collection Activities Expanding
States continue to expand data collection
True longitudinal data systems exist
Increased potential for data use
Local DSS Systems Implemented
Home grown and off-the-shelf
Smaller and less funded districts less likely to have DSS
Typically do not draw on state longitudinal data systems
Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) increases compatibility between parties
Systems vary in content and use
Data Use Barriers vs. Facilitators
Purposeful and accessible data
Support systems
Analytic capacity
Models for translating raw data into information and then into decisions
Research on Effective Data Use
Evaluations of data uses in early stages
Research on all aspects of data use increasing
New projects on data being funded
Promising Practices
Innovation by districts and states
Increased attention on data use
New studies highlight promising practices

5. 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
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6. 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

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