Websites Providing Test Data from National, State, and Local Educational Resources
This website originates from the Harvard college library and has a large variety of different websites all relating to providing test data from national, state, and local education resources. What is useful about this website is that it contains data for the United States as well as International resources and with each source given, there is a few sentences of detail of what the sources will be about. These website sources range from “providing data relating to faculty salaries, enrollment, student activities, etc” to search engines in which data can be searched for alphabetically (“FedStats”). This website is overall a great and very helpful resource that includes a variety of different resources pertaining specifically to topics relating to providing test data from national state and local education.
http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/education/index.html
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It is very important to remember that statistical analysis can be used to compare a particular school's level with that of another school in the same district, or county, or even state. Much of what we use technology for is to better supplement the learning of our students, but sometimes what we forget is the statistics of the types of students we are teaching, and how we compare on the greater map of all schools. If one school has lower test scores but has improved greatly, it is also important to take notice of improvement and not just how the school may compare to 'A' schools. Statistics about test scores can tell us alot about where schools stand and how they improve or fall behind.
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