The growing importance of ‘data professionals’
[Schools are not simply making use of data themselves … a city like Melbourne has a growing industry of ‘outside’…
Data + gender
At the end of the interview, Larissa and I continued talking more about the school and the challenges to…
‘Measure what matters’? Emotion detection and behaviour screening in schools
Most schools see ‘data’ primarily in terms of: (i) performance data (i.e. students’ grades from in-school tests, high-stakes examinations and…
The frustration of schooling by numbers
Snippet of conversation from Northland College [10_10_19] Teacher1: We spend our whole time telling students that they’re more than…
Some more examples of data-driven schooling
Northland College runs a few different ‘big ticket’ data analyses. These are computer-based calculations and quantifications that play a prominent…
Not all school data are equal
Students in their senior years of high school are subjected to swathes of testing and assessment. Hot on the heels…
