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The Ethical Use of Data in Education - Promoting Responsible Policies and Practices (Paperback)
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The Ethical Use of Data in Education - Promoting Responsible Policies and Practices (Paperback)
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This volume brings together experts on various aspects of education
to address many of the emerging issues and problems that affect how
data are being used or misused in educational contexts. Readers
will learn about the importance of using data effectively,
responsibly, and ethically to fully understand how cognitive
fallacies occur and how they impact decisionmaking. They will
understand how codes of ethics deal with the use of data within
education as well as in other disciplines. Chapters provide a
landscape view of the regulations that pertain to data use and
policies that have emerged, including the impact of accountability
on data use and data ethics. The text covers data ethics in local
education agencies, professional development, educator preparation,
testing programs, and educational technology. Chapter authors
recommend steps to improve awareness among educators, stakeholders,
and other interested groups and suggest actions that can be taken
to enhance educators' capacity to use data responsibly. A final use
case chapter describes the importance of data ethics in terms of
equity in schools and includes salient examples of ethical
dilemmas, with questions and reflections on how ethics and equity
apply to each situation. The conclusion addresses data ethics in
terms of professionalism and poses several recommendations to
challenge educators in ways to raise awareness of and integrate
data ethics into educational practice.Book Features: Discusses how
accountability affects effective data, including the pressure on
schools and districts to perform better on test scores or other
indicators. Outlines ten recommendations for how professional
development can incorporate data ethics in practice. Reviews the
expectations and realities of preparing educators for data
literacy, including an example of one teacher education program's
integrated, curriculum-wide approach. Considers the role of testing
companies in ethical data use, including issues around equity in
assessment data. Explores how educational technologies, platforms,
and applications impact data use.
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