Would it be fair to say that the central problem with the reporting you are railing against is that they are vanity metrics? Where vanity metrics are those that fail to reflect anything of real value. The poster child for vanity metrics is the old "hit counter" on a web site. There is nothing useful about that information, though its makes the naive webmaster feel good.
As opposed to actionable metrics which are central to the most important outcomes that are being sought. When a metric is actionable there are clear and specific actions that can be taken to improve the case of underperformance. In the case of sports there are clear and specific actions that will lead to an increase in the score of a particular team or player.
I presume that you would be good with actionable metrics if they were available for education, right?
It's not just reporting -- that implies the data exists. It's the creation of systems that end up existing just to justify their own existence. The book Tyranny of Metrics is a good summary of much of what I feel
Would measures of psychological need satisfaction, patterns of motivation and degrees of engagement be acceptable to you?
I have just returned from the Self-Determination Theory conference where those are the kinds of things they routinely study. Unfortunately, there are only one or two surveys that incorporate items that have been validated by this scientific community, so you are correct that the data is not available to be reported, but it could be collected.
Would it be fair to say that the central problem with the reporting you are railing against is that they are vanity metrics? Where vanity metrics are those that fail to reflect anything of real value. The poster child for vanity metrics is the old "hit counter" on a web site. There is nothing useful about that information, though its makes the naive webmaster feel good.
As opposed to actionable metrics which are central to the most important outcomes that are being sought. When a metric is actionable there are clear and specific actions that can be taken to improve the case of underperformance. In the case of sports there are clear and specific actions that will lead to an increase in the score of a particular team or player.
I presume that you would be good with actionable metrics if they were available for education, right?
Enjoy,
Don Berg
Deeper Learning Advocates
It's not just reporting -- that implies the data exists. It's the creation of systems that end up existing just to justify their own existence. The book Tyranny of Metrics is a good summary of much of what I feel
Would measures of psychological need satisfaction, patterns of motivation and degrees of engagement be acceptable to you?
I have just returned from the Self-Determination Theory conference where those are the kinds of things they routinely study. Unfortunately, there are only one or two surveys that incorporate items that have been validated by this scientific community, so you are correct that the data is not available to be reported, but it could be collected.