Decision Support Systems in Schools - from Data Collection to Decision Making
Andreas Breiter, Daniel Light · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2004
With the growing need to adapt to external competitive demands and internal accountability mechanisms, schools and school systems have built up large-scale information systems with data from standardized tests and with administrative data. With reference to findings in research on management information systems, key aspects and constraints of data-driven decisionmaking in business are transferred to the education system. The limits and opportunities of data-driven analyses for school development are explained using results from a implementation study of an education information system targeted at teachers as a primary user group.