1. Data Capacity and Quality
Considerations
Christopher A. Thorn
University of Wisconsin-Madison

2. Principal Evaluation Squeezed on both
ends with Data Quality Challenges
• Data use for instructional leadership
– Measures of teacher practice
– Student Learning Objectives/Achievement Goals
– Other
• Data use for principal performance
– Val-ED or other standards-based framework
– Observational data
– Other

3. Solutions to managing Teacher data for
Principal Use
• Solutions and Challenges
– Buy it
– Build it
– Manual processes
– What level of data is used
– Does it roll up

4. Solutions to managing Principal data
for Supervisor Use
• Solutions and Challenges
– Buy it
– Build it
– Manual processes
– What level of data is used
– Does it roll up