Sigrid Hartong|Annina Förschler
Opening the black box of data-based school monitoring: Data infrastructures, flows and practices in state education agencies
Helmut Schmidt University|Helmut Schmidt University
contributing rising number critical data studies seek understand critically reflect increasing datafication digitalisation governance paper focuses field school monitoring particular digital data infrastructures flows practices state education agencies goal examine selected features enactment datafication hence open widely remained black box education researchers findings based interviews conducted three state education agencies two different national contexts us germany thus addressing question datafication digitalisation school governance manifested within also across educational contexts systems findings illustrate implementation databased school monitoring leadership state education agencies appears complex entanglement different logics practices problems producing new capabilities powers nonetheless identifying different types data discrepancies reported interviewees suggest analytical heuristic better understand least features multifaceted enactment databased increasingly digitalised governance within beyond field education