“We Have All the Data in One Place”: Examining Principals’ Use of a Data Warehouse During an Academic School Year
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In this article, I describe how principals accessed teacher and student data on a centralized data warehouse (DWH) during an academic school year. I found that principals did not use the DWH very often during the year. When logged on, principals most often looked at reports on student achievement, teachers’ performance, or student demographics. Principals’ use also seemed to be influenced by the school calendar and the release of student and teacher data, along with personal and organizational characteristics.
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Poor system design could result in schools' non-adoption or underutilisation of data warehousing systems due to school leaders' and teachers' discontent with the types of data included in the system.
“Poor system design could result in schools' non-adoption or underutilisation of data warehousing systems due to school leaders' and teachers' discontent with the types of data included in the system (Drake, 2021).”
From Using information and communication technology (ICT)-based data systems to support teacher data-driven decision-making: Insights from the literature (2013–2023) (2024) · cites this paper as Drake, 2021
At times, the manifestation of the lack of buy-in is fuelled by the resistance to change or hesitation to challenge the status quo.
“At times, the manifestation of the lack of buy-in is fuelled by the resistance to change or hesitation to challenge the status quo (Drake, 2021).”
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“At times, the manifestation of the lack of buy-in is fuelled by the resistance to change or hesitation to challenge the status quo (Drake, 2021).”
- Authors
- Drake, T. A.
- Affiliations
- North Carolina State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Drake, Timothy A.
- ORCID
- Drake, Timothy A.
- Venue
- NASSP Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2021-05-24
- Volume
- 105
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 84-110
- ISSN
- 0192-6365 (ISSN-L)
- 1930-1405
- OpenAlex
- W3165165475
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1
- FWCI
- 0.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- NASSP Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Educational Assessment and Improvement
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Social Sciences › Education › Educational Leadership and Practices
- Keywords
- data warehouse, school principals, educational data use, data-driven decision making, student performance data, student demographics, school leadership, data access patterns
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