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Video Clips

• Use Data to Build Better Schools

Andreas Schleicher walks us through the PISA test, a global measurement that ranks countries against one another — then uses that same data to help schools improve.
Relevant Learning Objective: LO 12-8; Design quantitative data collection procedures for a research topic of interest

• The Beauty of Data Visualization

David McCandless turns complex data sets, beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.
Relevant Learning Objective: LO 12--8; Design quantitative data collection procedures for a research topic of interest

• Jack Buckley Speaks on the Common Education Data Standards (CEDS)

Jack Buckley, Commissioner for the National Center for Education Statistics at the Department of Education, speaks about the history and goals of the Common Education Data Standards (CEDS).
Relevant Learning Objective: LO 12- 5; Identify and describe major categories of data collection techniques in quantitative research