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Leading Indicators for Educational Improvement
The Institute’s Leading Indicators action research aims to identify key indicators that forecast academic improvement and to create tools and resources that help education system leaders use these leading indicators to support student learning.
What We Do
Institute researchers studied four districts considered to be in the vanguard of data-informed decision making: Hamilton County (TN), Montgomery County (MD), Naperville (IL), and Philadelphia (PA). The study aimed to document how these districts use leading indicators to make decisions about districtwide policy, school policy, and classroom instruction and to measure school successes and challenges.
The researchers conducted interviews with district and school leaders in the four study sites. The group also regularly convened participants from these sites as a data-informed decision-making network to get feedback on the Institute’s work and to help identify the kinds of supports the field needs to increase the use of leading indicators.
The study identified the most powerful indicators already in use by the study districts. Based on this research, we developed a series of tools and resources to share knowledge with other school communities that are interested in using leading indicators.
Timeframe
2006–2010
Partners & Funders
Contact Person
Ellen Foley
Associate Director, District Redesign and Leadership
Ellen_Foley@brown.edu
Leading Indicators for Educational Improvement
RELATED PUBLICATIONS
LEADING INDICATOR SPOTLIGHT SERIES
Each research brief examines in detail one leading indicator identified in the study.
COMMENTARY
Leading indicators in education, as in economics, signal early progress — or lack of it — in academic achievement while there is still time to intervene and provide supports.
BEYOND TEST SCORES: LEADING INDICATORS FOR EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT
This research report looks at four districts using leading indicators for early signs of academic progress before the test scores come in.
GoalLEADING INDICATOR SPOTLIGHT SERIES
Each research brief examines in detail one leading indicator identified in the study.>
COMMENTARY
Leading indicators in education, as in economics, signal early progress — or lack of it — in academic achievement while there is still time to intervene and provide supports.
>
BEYOND TEST SCORES: LEADING INDICATORS FOR EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT
This research report looks at four districts using leading indicators for early signs of academic progress before the test scores come in.>
The Institute’s Leading Indicators action research aims to identify key indicators that forecast academic improvement and to create tools and resources that help education system leaders use these leading indicators to support student learning.
What We Do
Institute researchers studied four districts considered to be in the vanguard of data-informed decision making: Hamilton County (TN), Montgomery County (MD), Naperville (IL), and Philadelphia (PA). The study aimed to document how these districts use leading indicators to make decisions about districtwide policy, school policy, and classroom instruction and to measure school successes and challenges.
The researchers conducted interviews with district and school leaders in the four study sites. The group also regularly convened participants from these sites as a data-informed decision-making network to get feedback on the Institute’s work and to help identify the kinds of supports the field needs to increase the use of leading indicators.
The study identified the most powerful indicators already in use by the study districts. Based on this research, we developed a series of tools and resources to share knowledge with other school communities that are interested in using leading indicators.
Timeframe
2006–2010
Partners & Funders
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- The DIDM Network:
Hamilton County (Chattanooga), TN;
Knox County Schools, TN;
Montgomery County, MD;
Naperville, IL;
New Visions for Public Schools
Philadelphia, PA
Contact Person
Ellen Foley
Associate Director, District Redesign and Leadership
Ellen_Foley@brown.edu
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