Data-driven decision making continues to be a growing educational reform initiative across
the globe. The effective use of data requires that teachers develop the knowledge and skills …

Background Data use has been promoted as a panacea for instructional improvement.
However, the field lacks a detailed understanding of how teachers actually use assessment …

What are the characteristics of a school as learning organisation? This paper should be
seen as an attempt to work towards a common understanding of the school as learning …

This article reports on the evolution of a conceptual framework for a construct called data
literacy for teachers. Data use has become an emphasis in education but few educators …

This article examines an understudied aspect of teachers' sensemaking of student learning
data: the way in which teachers explain the causes of the outcomes observed in data …

Data-based decision-making has the potential to increase student achievement results. Data-
based decision-making can be defined as teachers' systematic analysis of data sources in …

There is growing evidence that educators engage in social media and virtual social
networks across formal and informal settings to direct the trajectory of their curriculum …

The significance of data use for school improvement is recognized internationally. Several
interventions have been developed to support schools in the use of data. However, there is …

Despite the increased worldwide acknowledgment of the importance of teachers' use of
formative and/or summative assessment data to improve teaching and learning, empirical …

Despite the press for data-informed decision making, there is still much to learn about when
and under what conditions data promote changes in instruction and when they may …