By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Promise of Administrative Data in Education Research
David Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Kjell Salvanes, Education Finance, Policy, 2017/04/04
"Although these data are collected for purely administrative purposes," write the authors, "they represent remarkable new opportunities for expanding our knowledge." This short essay (8 page PDF) examines some of the purposes to which administrative data in education could be put, and raises some of the issues associated with using data in this way. More...