Putting the 'Use' Back in Data Use: An Outsider's Contribution to the Measurement Community's Conversation About Data

摘要

We want to begin by thanking the commentators for their thoughtful and thought-provoking reviews of our article. As outsiders to the measurement community, we are honored to enter into dialogue with members of this community on the topic of data use. Data use is a phenomenon that spans boundaries of disciplines, implicating issues of measurement and assessment, issues of learning and cognition, issues of organizational context and change, and issues of power and politics, among others. Traditionally, scholarship on these different aspects of data use lives in different disciplinary homes. In our view, knowledge from multiple disciplines or areas of inquiry is required to understand such a complex social phenomenon.