Notes:

1. Description of the CRESPAR Center
   1. “The mission of the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR) is to conduct the research, development, evaluation, and dissemination needed to transform schooling for students placed at risk.”
2. Interesting vignette describing the data using teacher with host of computer based tools to facilitate instructional, assessment and management activities.
   1. Vignette included reference to a lesson 'set' rather than plan. This set included a variety of activities.
3. Introduction, computers transforming education may finally arrive with the NCLB led emphasis on school use of data
   1. Schools are data rich and information poor
   2. “Our belief is that teachers would make valuable use of data to inform their classroom practice if such data were quickly and easily available to them in forms that fit their needs and answered their questions.” p. 3
4. School improvement research has demonstrated the utility of data use. Several references here that need to be reviewed for potential inclusion in paper.
5. Research section concludes with note on the difficulty of the task in part due to lack of technology solutions that can meet the diverse needs of schools.
6. Information Management section.
   1. “For IM to be a truly beneficial enhancement for educational decision-making, it is important that the market for educational IM technology be driven by the needs of education, not vice-versa.” p. 6
7. Discussed steps to take in developing / procuring systems.
8. Implementation issues. Need to get something up and running to demonstrate capabilities - even if not complete.
9. Article gives little hope to home-grown solutions. Also, no mention of open-source or shared development. (Although later notes that Houston, Cleveland and Broward County have locally developed systems).
10. Schools Iteroperability Framework. http://www.sifinfo.org
11. Some non-profits (at least one would expect) in clude QSP by CRESST (http://qsp.cse.ucla.edu) and Datapoint by the National Study of School Evaluation (NSSE). http://www.nsse.org
12. Updated reviews can be found at www.csos.jhu.edu/systemics/datause.htm
13. DataPoint is designed to be integrated with the School Improvement Plan.
14. Conclusions.
    1. “However, there do not yet exist controlled studies that examine educator use of student data software, and the effect of such use on student outcomes.” p. 36.
    2. Series of three research questions posed on p. 37 which focus on educator use.