Small Data: Cracking the Code of Student Success - Education Futures: Emerging Trends in K-12 - Education Week

By Jennifer Medbery A trail of "big data" now follows each student from the first day of kindergarten through high school graduation and beyond. Technology allows teachers and administrators to capture, organize and analyze this information, so they can act on it in a timely way. But is it having an effect on student learning and achievement? The Washington Post recently examined this topic in an article that featured a blog post by Pasi Sahlberg and Jonathan Hasak, who asserted that "there is now more data available than can reasonably be consumed and yet there has been no significant improvement...

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