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Understanding Data Use Practice among Teachers: The Contribution of Micro-Process Studies

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Understanding Data Use Practice among Teachers: The Contribution of Micro-Process Studies

Abstract/Description

Despite the growing volume of research on data use systems or data use activities in which teachers engage, micro-process studies—investigations of what teachers and others actually do under the broad banner of “data use” or “evidence-based decision making”—remain substantially underdeveloped. Starting with a review of the extant research on teachers’ data use practice in workplace and professional development contexts, this article argues for a more conceptually robust, methodologically sophisticated, and extensive program of micro-process research on data use that also anticipates the ways in which local practice both instantiates and constructs institutional and organizational structures, processes, and logics.

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Volume

118

Issue

2

Pages

143-166

Resource type

Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

Published Text

Scholarship genre

Empirical
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Open access/full-text available

Yes

Peer reviewed

Yes

ISSN

0195-6744

Citation

Little, J. W. (2012). Understanding Data Use Practice among Teachers: The Contribution of Micro-Process Studies. American Journal of Education, 118(2), 143–166. https://doi.org/10.1086/663271

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