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Data Use for Continuous Quality Improvement website, led by Margaret Heritage of the National Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center (AACC), contains four key components:

• A guide for the effective use of data to improve educational decision-making;
  

As the sequel to Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments, this book shows how the results of needs assessments can be transformed into action plans for an organization and the procedures for facilitating that change.

"The central decision for [all organizations] is, "What is the best way to portion out available resources, including time, money, and organizational efforts, to meet all the demands--the needs--that compete for them? Such decisions may be based on intuition, political pressures, past practices, or personal preferences...But the most effective way to decide such issues is to make needs assessment the first stage in planning."