The DATADRIVE project aims to explore innovative ways of empowering teachers and school leaders, by giving them methodological tools, instruments and training to develop their skills and competences to read, interpret and use different types of data so as to support evidence-driven school improvement. These skills will help school leaders and teachers to take action based on evidence and to the stakeholders into decision making process. When teachers use credible, quality data to evaluate and inform school improvement, they can better approach complex problems, address diversity and support all their students and engage them to increase their performance. To support the teachers and school leaders in acquiring these skills, the DATADRIVE project will review existing literature, practices, frameworks and instruments related to school quality and data use and collect new evidence from practitioners to build a new school quality framework and survey instruments to measure the underlying school quality dimensions as well as a data-driven school improvement framework both that can be accessed on any digital platform. Using these ICT-based methodologies, training material and instructional videos will be created in line with the identified needs, and school leader and teacher teams in selected schools will be invited to create a participatory governance structure and be coached to collaborate as professional learning communities to use these frameworks and instruments. Coordinated by Luxembourg, the DATADRIVE project has teamed up with 5 other partners: the Ministry of Education of Croatia, the Autonomous Highschool of the German-speaking Community in Belgium, the University of Twente in Netherlands, the SPOLECZNA AKADEMIA NAUK University in Poland and Edurio Ltd. UK, a small and medium enterprise that helps school network leaders both in public and private sectors establish an evidence-based approach to school improvement in their organisations. The DATADRIVE project will gather evidence from participating countries on school quality dimensions and data-driven decision-making practices to create a school quality framework, a data-driven school improvement framework, content survey material and corresponding teaching material and videos and a handbook on data-driven school improvement for professional learning community teams in schools. At the end of the project, national workshops with all stakeholders will be held to familiarize them with methods of gathering and analysing data and how project outputs can be used to impact the way decision-making is done in schools. The desired impact is to have content (frameworks, surveys, training content) for education quality monitoring and improvement tailored to specific school needs. While the content will be meant for application on a school/school network level, it can also be tailored to the needs of larger education institutions and networks. Impact will be seen when school leaders and teachers will be ready to make data-driven changes. Dissemination will be addressed to school leaders and teachers of all schools, teacher-training institutes, national departments working with schools on quality improvement, as well as national and international level education policy-makers. All project outputs will be stored on the DATADRIVE website, partner websites and will be available for download free of charge. The video trainings will be available on the DATADRIVE website, Youtube and will be distributed to participating countries training institutions. With the growing emphasis on digital national and international assessments, where technology is increasingly used to enhance teaching and learning, DATADRIVE also aims to make effective use of technological resource tools that promote innovative ways of collecting and using data to improve the quality of education. In other words, accurate, reliable and timely data made available to school leaders and teachers who are equipped with expertise and tools to use them meaningfully will enable them to direct their support exactly where it is needed.
With the growing emphasis on sustainable and effective adaptation of the digital education and training systems, e.g., Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027), the DATADRIVE project explores innovative methods for empowering teachers and school leaders, by giving them modern tools, and necessary training to develop their skills and competencies to read, interpret and use different types of data to facilitate evidence-driven school improvement. These skills aim to help school leaders and teachers to take action based on evidence. When these stakeholders can gather and use reliable data to evaluate their schools, they can better detect and address arising problems, support their students and their families, and engage all parties to increase their performances. To support the teachers and school leaders in acquiring these skills; - The DATADRIVE project systematically reviews the materials on existing practices, frameworks, and instruments related to school quality as well as data use on school improvement; - The DATADRIVE analysis new evidence from practitioners to build a new "school quality framework" and new "survey instruments" to identify the underlying school quality dimensions as well as a data-driven school improvement framework. - To implement these new tools effectively in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)/Web-based environment, training materials, and instructional videos are created according to the identified needs of the school leaders and teachers team from selected schools. - The team of the school leaders and teachers are coached to collaborate as professional learning communities to use these frameworks and instruments to create a participatory governance structure. The DATADRIVE project is realized by 6 partners under the coordination of SCRIPT in the Ministry of Education of Luxembourg: the Ministry of Education of Croatia, the Autonomous Highschool of the German-speaking Community in Belgium, the University of Twente in the Netherlands, the SPOLECZNA AKADEMIA NAUK University in Poland, and Edurio Ltd. UK, an enterprise that helps school network leaders both in public and private sectors establish an evidence-based approach to school improvement in their organizations. The DATADRIVE first surveys school quality parameters from participating countries and data use practices in decision-making mechanisms, then uses the survey to create a school quality framework. This new framework comprises a data-driven school improvement framework, survey materials, and corresponding teaching material and videos, and a handbook on data-driven school improvement for professional learning communities. The workshops realized within this project intend to familiarize all stakeholders with methods of collecting and analyzing data and how to use project outputs in school improvements. The main objective of the DATADRIVE is to maximize the impact of the data-driven decision process in school improvements by developing content (frameworks, surveys, training materials, etc) not only that can be easily adaptable to specific school needs but also can be scalable according to the needs of larger education institutions and networks. With such a broad spectrum of applications, the impact of data-driven decisions can become observable at multiple levels. In addition to workshops, in order to facilitate the rapid dissemination of DATADRIVE outcomes among school leaders and teachers, teacher-training institutions, national departments working with schools on quality improvement, as well as national and international level education policy-makers, all project outputs are stored on the DATADRIVE's open-access website, and partners' websites. The training videos are kept publicly available on other platforms, such as YouTube, in addition to the DATADRIVE website.