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Dennis Pierce, Editor writes on eSchool News, "Today's top story highlights a new partnership among the American Association of School Administrators, the Consortium for School Networking, and Gartner Inc. to help schools use student data to improve achievement. Among other things, the project will help school leaders understand the capabilities of various students information systems and learning management systems on the market, so they can make more informed buying decisions."
Education, technology groups collaborate to leverage student data
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“This is a collaboration that will provide assistance to educators on the front lines,” said AASA Executive Director (and eSchool News contributor) Daniel A. Domenech. “It does no good to talk about data-driven decisions if schools do not have the means to collect reliable data. CoSN and Gartner can provide teachers and administrators [with] tools that are critical to making gains in individual classrooms.”
In the current era of maximizing accountability, school leaders increasingly are asked to make classroom-level student data available in forms that are usable in improving instructional practices. These demands require that schools and districts purchase and become proficient in using increasingly sophisticated software systems.
Two of these tools—student information systems (SIS) and learning management systems (LMS)—have the capacity to store and analyze large amounts of student data, but educators seeking to buy and install these systems are confronted with a bewildering array of products, features, and technical specifications. At the same time, software vendors do not always have sufficient understanding of how school systems work and how such software should best be deployed.
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Source: eSchool News
