Data Literacy for Educators - Making It Count in Teacher Preparation and Practice

Describes data literacy for teaching, emphasizing the important relationship between data knowledge and skills and disciplinary and pedagogical content knowledge. Case studies of emerging programs in schools of education are used to illustrate the key components needed to integrate data-driven decisionmaking into the teaching curricula.

About the author

Ellen B. Mandinach is senior research scientist and director of the Data for Decisions Initiative at WestEd. Edith S. Gummer is the education research and policy director at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Summary

Describes data literacy for teaching, emphasizing the important relationship between data knowledge and skills and disciplinary and pedagogical content knowledge. Case studies of emerging programs in schools of education are used to illustrate the key components needed to integrate data-driven decisionmaking into the teaching curricula.

Product details

• Authors: Edith S Gummer, Edith S. Gummer, Ellen B Mandinach, Ellen B. Mandinach, Ellen B./ Gummer Mandinach, Ellen Beth Mandinach
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780807757536
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5753-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Technology, Education--Connect; Technology, Education-Connections (TEC) Series Education; Technology, Education-Connections (TEC) Series Education; Technology, Education-Connections (The TEC Series); Technology, Education--Connect
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology