11.016 - Improving Skills of School Leaders in Using Data to Drive Improvement: Building on a Tested District Model

Session Type: Professional Development Course

Abstract

The AERA Professional Development course has been organized by Division H (Research, Evaluation, and Assessment in Schools) Professional Development Committee as a new initiative on improving use of data and methods of research and evaluation. The 1-day pre-conference course will be built around a model that has been designed and tested in the Wake County (North Carolina) Public School System. Lead objectives for the course are:
. Share the data-driven decision making model that has been used to train non-evaluators to be more data driven in their selection of efforts to meet their needs and to monitor the success of those efforts.
. Address common problems and possible solutions for issues that are typically faced in evaluating the success of efforts within school systems.
. Discuss some ways to organize data which make it more user-friendly.

Sub Unit

• Professional Development and Training Committee

Instructors

• Bradley J. McMillen, Wake County Public School System

• Colleen Graham Paeplow, Wake County Public School System

• Nancy R. Baenen, Wake County Public School System

• Sonya T. Stephens, Wake County Public School System

• Rolf K. Blank, NORC at the University of Chicago