Schools or Districts. The Study Essay

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The Grow tool can certainly be used in other educational systems to the same end that NYC uses it in its own schools. More so, similar reports and web-based data summaries can be created to help teachers better understand and assist their students.

What additional data would you suggest they collect and analyze to enhance their understanding of the problem and identify sound solutions?

Other web-based data systems may be a comparison of effective strategies that are used to encourage students to learn; or innovations that teachers in various schools have created; or a synthesis of instructional models that have proved useful in the educational system. Comparison of scores of public schools in particular regions can be the content of another web-based data system. Describe at least one method they used that you might consider adopting to diagnose a problem in your school or district.

I might use a web-based data system that would summarize the results of a particular experimental subject or method that the school may have decided to adopt and survey the outcome of its effect on teachers, students, stakeholders, parents throughout the duration of, for instance, a school year. Summarizing the monthly results of implementation of this program with the supplementation of feedback (both observational and surveys) form the various stakeholders may help decide whether to retain the program, modify it (and if so in which ways), or reject it.

Describe at least one challenge you foresee in collecting and/or analyzing data using this method.


People may not be forthcoming or entirely honest in providing the data. For instance, if summary were based on teacher reports, the teachers may wish to please the principal and, therefore, provide a distorted impression of the program's outcome. Similarly, too, parents and students may, for various reasons, be disinclined or unable to provide objective assumption of the program's outcome. The summary, therefore, may be erroneous in part.

It may also fail due to misunderstanding of respondent's report, or, amongst other reasons, eventuate from incomplete response (with only part of the sampled population actually and entirely responding).

Source

Light, D et al. (2004) How Practitioners Interpret and Link Data to Instruction:Research Findings on New York City Schools' Implementation of the Grow Network. EDC/Center for Children and Technology

http://cct.edc.org/admin/publications/speeches/Grow_AERA04_fin.pdf.....

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