Indicator Sets for the Information Planner.

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Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.

Academic Achievement; Academic Standards; Early Childhood Education; Education Work Relationship; Educational Environment; Educational Improvement; Educational Planning; Elementary Secondary Education; Equal Education; Evaluation Criteria; Partnerships in Education; Rural Education; School Effectiveness

Information about the outcomes, processes, and context of teaching and learning are being used to plan and monitor school-improvement efforts in many schools. Meaningful information shared within a school community can effectively coalesce broad support for responsive school-improvement efforts. An information planner is being developed by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory to support the important use of school-community information captured in indicator systems. In order to help school-planning teams focus on potentially relevant indicators, the information planner will suggest sets of indicators keyed by the potential purpose and context of the school-planning teams using the system. This report includes the sets of indicators that will be included in the information planner for effective schools, rural schools, early-childhood programs, and education-to-work programs. The appendix contains characteristics of effective schools, possible indicators, and guiding questions for using information from indicators. (LMI)

1998

ED413656