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Structures And Supports For Data Use In Schools: A Qualitative Case Study Of One Urban Elementary School, Anne Marie Groh May 2013

Structures And Supports For Data Use In Schools: A Qualitative Case Study Of One Urban Elementary School, Anne Marie Groh

Theses and Dissertations

A federal policy in the United States has required sweeping changes in K-12 education. With No Child Left Behind legislation, schools are challenged to create conditions that bring each student to federally-set academic proficiency levels. Many schools have become more attentive to data about student performance and how it can inform their teaching decisions to meet federal goals under No Child Left Behind. How one urban elementary school in the Midwestern United States used data for decision-making in 2010-2011 was the focus of this research. The purpose of this study was to gain understanding about how personnel in one academically …