defining data dashboards
"The shortcomings of the NCLB system have led state officials and advocates to consider new approaches to accountability, opening the door to ideas like the data dashboard. In 2011, ED began issuing waivers from certain NCLB requirements to states allowing them to develop their own accountability systems. Forty-three states have received waivers, and their new systems vary in many ways from the NCLB model. For example, some states, such as Kentucky, and a group of districts in California broadened their measures of school performance significantly. Kentucky’s school performance index includes teacher- performance measures as well as student-achievement measures, and the California districts include in performance measures a variety of so-called “non-cognitive” abilities, in addition to test scores."
Read: Data Dashboard, Accounting for What Matters: Alliance for Excellent Education Publication; January 2015
Read: Data Dashboard, Accounting for What Matters: Alliance for Excellent Education Publication; January 2015