Accountability in education has prompted policy makers and practitioners to focus on data use for instructional and organizational decision-making. The popular media have seized on Value Added (VA) measures as a key type of data use for reforming U.S. schools. Among education researchers, however, there are both critics and proponents. We examined data use by the district leaders and staff members of 12 schools in a large urban district, with attention to the role VA metrics play in their decisions and their conceptions of themselves. VA is only one of many types of data that can be used to portray quality. While there was a soft relationship between VA and classroom quality measured by CLASS, we found that understanding the schools' contexts, particularly the use of resources and the coherence of actions to improve student achievement, greatly enhanced the power of our descriptions. As a result, we suggest that policies promoting multidimensional approaches to quality will better capture the complexity of education. Keywords: value added, quality, ecological framework, data use, reform Resumen: programas de responsabilidad educativa (accountability) han impulsado el "uso de información" (data use) entre responsables de implementar políticas y educadores profesionales tanto para decidir sobre cuestiones de instrucción como en decisiones sobre organización. Los medios de comunicación se han enfocado en los modelos de Valor Añadido (MVA) como un tipo clave de "uso de información" para reformar las escuelas estadounidenses. Entre los investigadores en educación, sin embargo, hay tanto críticos y como proponentes de MVAs. Examinamos el "uso de información" por directores, profesionales en 12 escuelas en un distrito urbano de gran tamaño, especialmente el papel que las medidas de MVAs tuvieron en sus decisiones y sus concepciones sobre sí mismos. MVAs es sólo uno de los muchos tipos de "usos de información" que pueden ser utilizados para indiicar calidad. Si bien hay una relación moderada entre MVA y calidad de la enseñanza medidas por CLASS, encontramos que la comprensión de los contextos escolares, especialmente el uso de los recursos y la coherencia de las acciones para mejorar el logro de los estudiantes, aumentó en gran medida el poder de nuestras descripciones. Sugerimos que las políticas que promueven enfoques multidimensionales de calidad captan mejor la complejidad de los sistemas educativos. Palabras clave: modelos de valor agregado; calidad; marco ecológico; uso de información; reforma. Ecologias de qualidade educativa.Resumo: Os programas de A responsabilidade educacionais (accountability) estão empurrando o "uso da informação" (uso de dados) aos responsáveis pela implementação de políticas e educadores nos processos de toma de decisões sobre questões educacionais e organizacionais. Os meios de comunicação têm-se centrado em modelos de valor agregado (MVA) como a questão chave no "uso de informação" para reformar as escolas americanas. Entre os pesquisadores de educação, no entanto, existem tant...
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