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…
DATAFIED Schools – data for & in education
We are very excited to be working along similar lines to a few other research projects around the world, including…
Data science as political action: notes on Ben Green (2018)
Despite being an inherently inter-disciplinary topic, discussions of digital data remain beset by disciplinary mis-apprehensions and suspicions. On one hand,…
There are often ‘good’ organisational reasons for ‘bad’ school data
Most schools have a few ‘big ticket’ data points – a particular indicator, score or ranking which looms large in…
School Data Analyst: a job description for the datafied school
[advertised job during the first month of our research] Data Analyst Full-time, ongoing position, commencing January 2019 Use your expertise…
From determinism to chance – notes on Hacking (1990)
Amidst the many anxieties that surround datafication is the recurring question of how numbers and statistics have become cemented throughout all…
