This course offers the student opportunities to analyze and apply how educational data can inform leadership for equity and excellence.
The course begins with fundamental tenets of literacy about assessment in general: valid and invalid applications of testing for instruction and educator evaluation. Second, students investigate the organizational structures in which data are used to understand how schools overall are performing. Known as the “audit culture,” educational leaders find that they both evaluate others in this way and are in turn evaluated themselves. This element of the course focuses on how they can leverage that work in building equitable and excellent schools. Finally, students will understand the tenets of action research, and how the data from such research can inform their own practice of educational leadership.
The course begins with fundamental tenets of literacy about assessment in general: valid and invalid applications of testing for instruction and educator evaluation. Second, students investigate the organizational structures in which data are used to understand how schools overall are performing. Known as the “audit culture,” educational leaders find that they both evaluate others in this way and are in turn evaluated themselves. This element of the course focuses on how they can leverage that work in building equitable and excellent schools. Finally, students will understand the tenets of action research, and how the data from such research can inform their own practice of educational leadership.