Executive Leadership Webinar 1: How Data Can Inform Effective Decisions

Recorded On: 11/07/2023

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University administrators are often data-rich but information-poor. To effectively inform decision-making, leaders should first understand their needs, the questions that require inquiry, and the issues to be addressed. In this webinar, Senior Research Scientist Ellen Mandinach will discuss how leaders can work with their teams to acquire and synthesize data, turn it into usable knowledge that will guide complex decisions, and the iterative process to use data for continuous improvement.

Ellen Mandinach

Senior Research Scientist

WestEd

Ellen Mandinach is a Senior Research Scientist at WestEd and a leading expert in the area of data-driven decision-making at the classroom, district, and state levels. Her work over the past 20 years has focused on understanding how educators are using data to inform practice. She has served on several technical working groups and advisory boards on data use, including the expert committee for the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards on teacher assessment and data literacy. Dr. Mandinach developed the constructs and theoretical frameworks for data literacy for teachers and culturally responsive data literacy.  Most recently, her focus has been on the ethics of data use.  She is helping to build the data infrastructure at the Nevada Department of Education, in districts throughout Vermont, and is developing materials on data privacy and data ethics for educator preparation.

Dr. Mandinach has authored many publications for academic journals, technical reports, and eight books. The most recent book which is forthcoming in 2024 is Culturally Responsive Data Literacy:  An Important Construct for All Educators.  Other data-related books, Data Literacy for Educators:  Making it Count in Teacher Preparation and Practice and Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Data-Driven Decision Making, are volumes that help educators to make better use of data. Her most recent book, The Ethical Use of Data in Education:  Promoting Responsible Policies and Practice, focuses on data ethics in education.  She received the 2015 Paul D. Hood Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field from WestEd. She has served as the President of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Educational Psychology. She created the Data-Driven Decision Making in Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association and is serving as its first chair.  She is a Fellow of APA and AERA.  She received an AB in psychology from Smith College and a Ph.D. in educational psychology, with an emphasis on educational measurement, from Stanford University.

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Webinar: How Data Can Inform Effective Decisions
Recorded 11/07/2023  |  55 minutes
Recorded 11/07/2023  |  55 minutes To effectively inform decision-making, leaders should first understand their needs, the questions that require inquiry, and the issues to be addressed.
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