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Attending to data: Exploring the use of attendance data within the datafied school
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posted on 2021-05-01, 00:00 authored by N Selwyn, Luci PangrazioLuci Pangrazio, B CumboContemporary schooling is seen to be altering significantly in light of a combined ‘digitisation’ and ‘datafication’ of key processes. This paper examines the nature and conditions of the datafied school by exploring how a relatively prosaic and longstanding school metric (student attendance data) is being produced and used in digital form. Drawing on empirical data taken from in-depth qualitative studies in three contrasting Australian secondary schools, the paper considers ‘anticipatory’, ‘analytical’ and ‘administrative’ aspects of how digitally-mediated attendance data is produced, used and imagined by school staff. Our findings foreground a number of constraints, compromises and inconsistencies that are usually glossed-over in enthusiasms for ‘data-driven’ education. It is argued that these findings highlight the messy realities of schools’ current relationships with digital data, and the broader logics of school datafications.
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Research in EducationVolume
109Issue
1Article number
ARTN 0034523720984200Pagination
72 - 89Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTDPublisher DOI
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0034-5237eISSN
2050-4608Language
EnglishPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalUsage metrics
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