Session Information
04 SES 10D, Management of Difference
Paper Session
Time:
2008-09-12
14:45-16:15
Room:
AK2 134
Chair:
Andreas, Carl Nordin
Contribution
One of the challenges for the system of mass education is to address individual differences of pupils, especially of children with special educational needs (including gifted children, language and ethnic minorities, children placed at risk due to poverty or neglect etc.). At schools, there are a lot of data about pupils (demographic data, performance tests, reports on the individual learning progress, observation records by teachers, reports of school psychologists and school counsellors etc.). However, these data are largely isolated and often ignored. There is a need to enhance teaching by promoting data-based decisions and information sharing about diverse pupils and about their learning development. This aspect has been raised in various publications on individualised education plans, records of individual learning development etc.
The paper presents preliminary findings from the research project “Management of student data in school and classroom” at the University of Hildesheim (Germany). The main research question is: How are the gathering, recording, usage and sharing of information about pupils organized in school and in classroom in order a) to meet the educational needs of diverse pupils, b) to support conversations with parents, teachers, other professionals and semi-professionals about pupils’ learning, and c) to promote teachers’ professional development by reflecting on their own teaching practice and on the learning development of pupils. The theoretical framework: concepts of inclusive education, diversity in education and personalised learning, and the recent research on school information systems.
Method
The paper is based on a literature review and on the analysis of the documentation of the pilot implementation of the records of individual learning development at mainstream schools in Lower Saxony in Germany (Niedersächsisches Kultusministerium 2006).
Expected Outcomes
The main outcome to be presented and discussed at the conference: A model of management of pupils’ data (gathering, recording, usage and sharing of information) at the school level and at the classroom level.
References
Niedersächsisches Kultusministerium (2006): Handreichungen Individuelle Lernentwicklung und ihre Dokumentation. Hannover. Rakhkochkine, A./Dhaouadi, Y. (2008): Dokumentation der individuellen Lernentwicklung. [Records of individual learning development] In: Arnold. K.-H./Graumann, O./Rakhkochkine, A. (Eds.) Handbuch Förderung. Weinheim: Beltz (in Press). Rakhkochkine, A. (2007): Aktual’nye tendentsii issledovaniya shkol’nykh korporativnykh informatsionnykh sistem. [Recent trends in the research on school information systems]. In: Innovatsionnyy obrazovatel’nyy menedzhment: rossiyskiy i mezhdunarodnyy kontekst. Velikiy Novgorod, pp. 81-84.
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