TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing Data Leadership
T2 - Contextual Influences on Administrators’ Data Use
AU - Roegman, Rachel
AU - Perkins-Williams, Ruqayyah
AU - Maeda, Yukiko
AU - Greenan, Kathleen A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The University Council for Educational Administration 2017.
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - This study aimed to understand administrators’ data leadership influenced by multiple contexts by analyzing interviews with 24 administrators from three Midwestern districts. Findings highlight ways that the accountability movement narrowed administrators’ data leadership. At the same time, the accountability movement was not totalizing, as principals’ teaching backgrounds offered possibilities for alternative narratives to thinking about how data can inform instruction. We conclude with implications for practice around ways to combat the accountability movement’s conceptions of data and provide administrators with knowledge and skills to engage in more holistic data leadership.
AB - This study aimed to understand administrators’ data leadership influenced by multiple contexts by analyzing interviews with 24 administrators from three Midwestern districts. Findings highlight ways that the accountability movement narrowed administrators’ data leadership. At the same time, the accountability movement was not totalizing, as principals’ teaching backgrounds offered possibilities for alternative narratives to thinking about how data can inform instruction. We conclude with implications for practice around ways to combat the accountability movement’s conceptions of data and provide administrators with knowledge and skills to engage in more holistic data leadership.
KW - data-based decision making
KW - high-stakes testing/accountability
KW - instructional leadership
KW - principal preparation
KW - professional development
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U2 - 10.1177/1942775117719452
DO - 10.1177/1942775117719452
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053961749
SN - 1942-7751
VL - 13
SP - 348
EP - 374
JO - Journal of Research on Leadership Education
JF - Journal of Research on Leadership Education
IS - 4
ER -