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标题：Data, democracy and school accountability: Controversy over school evaluation in the case of DeVasco High School:
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作者：John West
期刊名称：Big Data & Society
电子版ISSN：2053-9517
出版年度：2017
卷号：4
期号：1
DOI：10.1177/2053951717702408
语种：English
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：Debate over the closure of DeVasco High School shows that data-driven accountability was a methodological and administrative processes that produced both transparency and opacity. Data, when applied to a system of accountability, produced new capabilities and powers, and as such were political. It created second-hand representations of important objects of analysis. Using these representations administrators spoke on behalf of the school, the student and the classroom, without having to rely on the first-person accounts of students, teachers or principals. They empowered one group—central city administrators—over another—teachers and principals. After analyzing the form these policies took, this article concludes that it is necessary to rethink the processes that create visibility and invisibility. Public data obscured the voices, experiences and collective traumas of students and faculty within the school. A narrow focus on activities within the schools rendered invisible the structural decisions made by the Department of Education in New York City—to favor small schools over large, comprehensive ones. In order to create understanding, and a sense of common purpose, those who are spoken for in simplified data must also be given the opportunity to debate the representations of their performance and quality.
关键词：Accountability; Actor-network Theory; deliberation; governance; school closure; school evaluation