Interesting articles on Educational data analysis, usage and access

On June 19, 2009, in Assessment, Education, Intelligence, Teaching, by Raju Gupta
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How Data analysis is helping raise performance – story covers both good and the bad Data-Driven Schools See Rising Scores – WSJ.com Educational data is in abundance – but not in very useful state. Education Week: Data, Data Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Use  Impact of providing detailed and real time access to student [...]

 

Analysis of previous year MCAS Tests – how many Questions per standard area?

On March 26, 2009, in Assessment, Homepage, Intelligence, Resources, by Socrato!
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With the MCAS season underway and teachers trying to help students, we received a few requests to get insight into how the questions are distributed across the learning standards. Or, how many questions are allocated to each standard area in a given year or grade level? Or, Do you have the frequency analysis of questions [...]

 

Students learning data and business intelligence convergence

On February 17, 2009, in Intelligence, by Raju Gupta
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Many industries use business intelligence software tools to convert their data into information, and leverage that information to make business decisions. It’s only a matter of time before the same tools, technology and processes become main-stream in the educational space.   I came across this article in School CIO; it’s about the use of a [...]