Data-Driven Decision-Making in Schools: Lessons from Trinidad

1. Front Matter

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2. The Research Culture in Five Secondary Schools—A Case Study

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3. The Challenge of Maintaining School Culture in a Traditional School Setting—A Case Study

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4. A Study of Student Stress at the Senior Level at an All Girls Secondary School—A Case Study

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5. Male Adolescents’ Conceptions of Success, and Their Perceptions of Their School Experiences—A Case Study

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6. Subject Selection at the Secondary School Level—A Case Study

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7. Should We Re-Masculinize the Boys School? A Case Study

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8. Back Matter

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Yamin-Ali shows how schools can undertake responsible decision-making through gathering and evaluating data, using as examples six fully developed case studies that shed light on common questions of school culture and student life, including student stress, subject selection, and the role of single-sex classes.

• culture
• decision-making
• girls
• perception
• research
• school
• stress

• School of Education, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

  Jennifer Yamin-Ali

Jennifer Yamin-Ali is Lecturer in the School of Education of the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.

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