Data Gathering at the Dawn of the Regional Education Labs
Although our ability to access data about education has grown exponentially over the last decade, the central question of what to do with all the numbers and figures—and of what they really measure in the first place—has been vexing educators since the first batch of test results came in from the field. In the November 1966 issue of Educational Leadership, David Turney, assistant dean at Kent State University, takes on the issue of data quality by exploring where data come from, who gathers them, and how they are put to use.
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