The dashboard school: governing teachers, students and parents in the data-driven school.
The use of digital data dashboards is increasingly common in education. Dashboards often have visually appealing layouts and promise to make complex phenomena and large data sets visible and actionable to inform so-called 'data-driven' decision-making. In this paper we present a case-study of local...
| Publicado en: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 167 - 185 |
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