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Interesting articles on Educational data analysis, usage and access

By Raju Gupta On June 19, 2009 · Add Comment · In Assessments, Education: General, Teaching
How Data analysis is helping raise performance – story covers both good and the bad Educational data is in abundance – but not in very useful state. Education Week: Data, Data Everywhere, But Not a Drop to online casinos Use  Impact of providing detailed and real time access to student educational and learning data to [...]
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Success is not a one-way street, but a constant journey

By Raju Gupta On June 18, 2009 · 1 Comment · In General
Inspiring presentation and definition on “Definition of Success” by Richard St. John, reminding us that success is not a one-way street, but a constant journey. He uses the story of his business” rise and fall to illustrate a valuable lesson — when we stop trying, we fail. If you get a chance check it out [...]
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Teachers earning $125,000 a year – Can every school afford to get the best?

By Raju Gupta On June 6, 2009 · Add Comment · In Teaching
NYtimes posted a story on new charter school. It”s inspiring to see that Mr. Zeke M. Vanderhoek founder of a test preparation company Manhattan GMAT is assembling a dream team of teachers to kick start a charter school. I agree with the approach that excellent and passionate teachers / tutors are the key ingredients casino [...]
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The future of private tutoring in US – it’s going to be intense

By Raju Gupta On June 3, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Teaching & Tutoring
For people who do not believe that private tutoring can help increase SAT scores, this article about South Korean tutoring industry is intense. A recent study by NACAC got that private tutoring does not help much in raising SAT scores. At least, that’s how the finding of the report is being projected. If you detox [...]
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Socrato new release leveraging learning analytics to help MCAS and SAT students

By Raju Gupta On April 15, 2009 · Add Comment · In Socrato: Announcements
Today we upgraded Socrato with new release. Major updates were done in learning analytic and reporting area. Key high lights include: Teachers or tutors can create custom reports for group of students. Assessment data can be analyzed by teacher defined parameters and criteria. Example, school staff can look at the performance of a class by [...]
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Analysis of previous year MCAS Tests – how many Questions per standard area?

By Socrato Admin On March 26, 2009 · Add Comment · In Assessments, Resource
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 [...]
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Students learning data and business intelligence convergence

By Raju Gupta On February 17, 2009 · Add Comment · In Tutoring
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 [...]
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Upgrades to make Socrato easier and faster

By Socrato Admin On February 17, 2009 · Add Comment · In Socrato, Socrato: System
We are pleased to announce that this past weekend we rolled out a new release on Socrato. Some of the changes are external and can be seen by users, but most of the improvements are “under the hood” and result in improved response time. The key changes include: User Interface More content  – In addition [...]
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New 3rd–5th grade content. Socrato now supports MCAS grades 3 – 10.

By Socrato Admin On February 7, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Socrato, Socrato: Announcements
We received many requests about the availability of elementary school content. So we decided to prioritize this as part of our recent engagements with schools (where we are also doing learning data processing and analytics). We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of elementary school MCAS test content for Math and ELA. Teachers who [...]
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Future of educational assessment and student data

By Socrato Admin On September 3, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Assessments, Education: General
In an interesting article from Dr. Mostafa Mehrabani – McGraw Hill Assessment and Reporting President, he shares his thoughts about the future of educational assessment and reporting. Looking at the trends, I believe the underlying shift in education (and the impact of technology on it) is going to be bigger than Dr. Mostafa’s article projects. [...]
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