This drama teacher reflects on her school’s recent implementation of SAMS software (student activity monitoring software). This shows staff what … More

This is a complex three-year research project … but we have reached a stage where we are thinking about what … More

During our research we are always trying to explore the reasons, motivations and rationales that lie behind why schools are … More

Some of the main findings emerging from our research relate to the relatively limited ways in which our schools are engaging … More

Neil Selwyn and Luci Pangrazio present a short 15 minute talk on emerging findings from the ‘Data Smart Schools’ project. This is part of the ‘Why Talk About Data (In Education)?’ symposium run by Sheffield Hallam University.

We have written previously about the ideal of establishing a ‘single source of truth’ (SSOT) as part of a school’s … More

The idea of a ‘single source of truth’ (SSOT) is an important concept in data management. The SSOT is the … More

One of the more fanciful claims surrounding the datafication of schools is the idea that (nearly) everything can be known … More

The datafication of schooling relies on schools having robust, functioning computer and data infrastructures. In our investigations of the work involved in school data, … More

The flow of data around a school relies on considerable amounts of behind-the-scenes ‘invisible’ work.  Following the lead of Susan … More