Introduction: Contextualizing evidence-based decision making -- Evidence and decision making in professions / Theodore J. Kowalski -- Ethics based decision making by educational leaders / Paul T. Begley -- Legal dimensions of using employee and student data to make decisions / R. Lance Potter and Jacqueline A. Stefkovich -- The role of private firms in data-based decision making / Patricia Burch and Tracy Hayes -- The No Child Left Behind Act: making decisions without data or other reality checks / Timothy R. Konold and James M. Kauffman -- Preparing educators to effectively use student data systems / Jeffrey C. Wayman and Vincent Cho -- Accessing and analyzing national databases / Terrell Lamont Strayhorn -- Developing and nurturing resources for effective data-driven decision making / Anthony G. Picciano -- Preparing educators to use curriculum-based measurement / Robin S. Codding and James E. Connell, Jr. -- Principal leadership, data, and school improvement / Michael A. Copland, Michael S. Knapp, and Juli A. Swinnerton -- Building data-driven district systems: examples from three award-winning urban systems / Heather Zavadsky -- School system strategies for supporting data use / Amanda Datnow and Vicki Park -- Research on teachers using data to make decisions / James Raths, Stephanie A. Kotch, and Christine Carrino Gorowara -- Research and evaluation on data-based decisions in education / Gregory J. Marchant and Sharon E. Paulson -- Using data to make critical choices / Thomas J. Lasley II -- Formative versus summative assessments as measures of student learning / Robert J. Marzano -- Using evidence to support administrative decisions / Jane Hemsley-Brown -- Swimming in the depths: educators' ongoing effective use of data to guide decision making / Leanne R. Bettesworth, Julie Alonzo, and Luke Duesbery -- Creative decision-making strategies through technology-based curriculum tools / John Castellani and Deborah Carran -- Aggregating and analyzing classroom achievement data supplemental to external tests / John M. Berger, Brian Perry, and Meghann Eagle -- Collaborative inquiry and data-based decision making / Douglas Huffman and Kelli Thomas -- Evidential reasoning and decision support in assessment of teacher practice / Arthur M. Recesso and Sally J. Zepeda -- Data: the DNA of politically based decision making in education / Bruce S. Cooper, John Sureau, and Stephen Coffin -- Using data to assess school culture / Theodore J. Kowalski and Tricia Browne-Ferrigno -- Data-based teacher selection: viewed from a planning, recruitment, and selection perspective / I. Phillip Young -- Issues of recruitment and selection from a data-based perspective: implications for educational leadership programs / I. Phillip Young and Carol A. Mullen -- When data are insufficient to make group decisions: a case study in community college administration / Diane M. Dunlap and Renae E. Weber -- How NCLB has affected the practice of school district superintendents / George J. Petersen and Larry L. Dlugosh.
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