Evidence and decision making
By: edited by Pamela A. Moss.
Contributors: Moss, Pamela A.; National Society for the Study of Education.
Series: Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education -- 106th, pt. 1
Publisher: National Society for the Study of Education; Distributed by Blackwell Publishing
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill; Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Educational planning -- United States; Educational evaluation -- United States; Educational leadership -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: evidence and decision making  -- Pamela A. Moss and Philip J. Piety; title: Historical perspectives on democratic decision making in education: paradigms, paradoxes, and promises  -- David Gamson; title: Evidence in practice: a framing of the terrain  -- James P. Spillane and David B Miele; title: Understanding the promise and dynamics of data-informed leadership  -- Michael S. Knapp, Michael A. Copland, and Juli A. Swinnerton; title: Cutting through the "data-driven" mantra: different conceptions of data-driven decision making  -- Gina Schuyler Ikemoto and Julie A. Marsh; title: Culture and processes affecting data use in school districts  -- William A. Firestone and Raymond A. Gonzalez; title: A framework for effective management of school system performance  -- Lauren Resnick ... [et al.]; title: Some thoughts on "proximal' formative assessment of student learning  -- Frederick Erickson; title: Teachers' accounts of classroom experience as a resource for professional learning and instructional decision making -- Judith Warren Little.; title: The uses of testing data in urban elementary schools: some lessons from Chicago  -- John B. Diamond and Kristy Cooper; title: Situative approaches to student assessment: contextualizing evidence to transform practice  -- Daniel T. Hickey and Kate T. Anderson; title: Establishing multilevel coherence in assessment  -- Drew H. Gitomer and Richard A. Duschl; title: Large-scale indicator assessments: what every educational policymaker should know  -- Enis Dogan, William Tirre, and Ebony Walton; title: Evidence and decision making in education systems  -- Christopher Thorn, Robert H. Meyer, and Adam Gamoran; title: Reflections on assessment from a sociocultural-situated perspective  -- James Paul Gee; title: Adding complexity: philosophical perspectives on the relationship between evidence and policy -- Denis C. Phillips.