'''Data-informed decision-making (DIDM)''' refers to the [[data collection|collection]] and [[data analysis|analysis]] of [[data]] to guide [[decision-making|decisions]] that improve success.<ref>U.S. Department of Education Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (2009). ''Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports and use.'' United States Department of Education (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED504191)</ref> DIDM is used in [[education]] communities (where data is used with the goal of helping [[student]]s) but is also applicable to (and thus also used in) other fields in which data is used to inform decisions. While [[''data driven'' decision making]] is a more common term, ''data-informed'' decision-making is a preferable term since decisions should not be based solely on [[quantitative data]].<ref>Knapp, M. S., Swinnerton, J. A., Copland, M. A., & Monpas-Hubar, J. (2006). ''Data-informed leadership in education.'' Seattle, WA: Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy.</ref><ref>U.S. Department of Education Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (2009). ''Implementing data-informed decision making in schools: Teacher access, supports and use.'' United States Department of Education (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED504191)</ref> Most [[educator]]s have access to a [[data system]] for the purpose of analyzing student data.<ref>Aarons, D. (2009). [http://search.proquest.com/docview/202710770?accountid=28180 Report finds states on course to build pupil-data systems.] ''Education Week, 29''(13), 6.</ref> These data systems present data to educators in an over-the-counter data format (embedding labels, supplemental documentation, and a help system, making key package/display and content decisions) to improve the success of educators’ data-informed decision-making.<ref>Rankin, J. (2013, March 28). [https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/recording/playback/link/table/dropin?sid=2008350&suid=D.4DF60C7117D5A77FE3AED546909ED2 How data Systems & reports can either fight or propagate the data analysis error epidemic, and how educator leaders can help.] ''Presentation conducted from Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) School Leadership Summit.''</ref> In Business, fostering and actively supporting DIDM in their firm and among their colleagues could be the main rôle of CIOs (Chief Information Officers) or CDOs (Chief Data Officers).<ref>Delort P. 2012. [http://www.oecd.org/sti/ieconomy/Session_3_Delort.pdf#page=13 ICCP Technology Foresight Forum - "Harnessing data as a new source of growth: Big data analytics and policies" .] ''OECD, 2012''</ref>
