Data tracking for schools

Data tracking for schools

A group of seventh- and eighth-grade girls sat around a lunch table discussing a new game-like app they use in school. Danna Rodriguez somewhat sullenly said she didn’t want to care about Strides, which tracks points students can earn for attendance, grade-point average and engagement with the app itself, among other things. But she can’t…

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

The law is implicit in the economic idea of rational expectations. While it originated in the context of market responses, the law has profound implications for the selection of high-level targets in organizations.[4] Jón Danı́elsson quotes the law as “Any statistical relationship will break down when used for policy purposes”, and suggests a corollary to…