Raw postsecondary data are useful for descriptive purposes but may not give educators substantial new information beyond high school indicators¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Raw postsecondary data alone may not provide educators with substantial new information beyond what high school indicators such as student achievement already show. → Luke Heinkel 2015

Evidence¶

Luke Heinkel 2015¶

Luke Heinkel, Kristin Hallgren, Brian Gill, Megan Shoji. (2015). Making Effective Use of Postsecondary Data in K-12 Education Settings. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/making-effective-use-of-postsecondary-data-in-k-12-education-settings

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The issue brief's key findings state that raw postsecondary data serve descriptive purposes but that "raw postsecondary data alone may not provide educators with substantial new information" beyond high school indicators. No empirical analysis or effect size is reported in the brief.

"Postsecondary data in raw form are useful for descriptive purposes; however, raw postsecondary data alone may not provide educators with substantial new information that they did not know from high school indicators (such as student achievement)."

Discussion¶

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