Education

• Quality Education with Quality Data
• Institutional Intelligence
• Student Portal
• Retention rate analysis

Low-quality, inaccurate data can erode ROI quickly and, in some cases, irretrievably. Poor data quality results in misleading analysis. It can lead educators to faulty conclusions and suboptimal decisions. And once stakeholders lose confidence in the accuracy and quality of the data, the system is, perhaps forever, perceived as unreliable. Stakeholders abandon its use, and ROI is destroyed.

Unfortunately, it’s difficult to improve education - or anything else - without good data. Right now, that information frequently isn’t available. In fact, the data gaps are huge. Consider the startling facts:

• Only 25 states know the critical indicators (such as course enrolment or test scores) that predict whether their high school students are prepared to enter college or the workplace.
• Only two states can tell which teacher preparation programs produce the strongest teachers based on performance.
• And at a time of high unemployment and declining wages for many Americans, only 12 states have the ability to provide follow a student from high school and post-secondary into workforce to begin to look at earnings in their jobs and careers.

Data-driven education dashboards that offer teachers up-to-date information about their classrooms, insight into how different groups of students are performing, and which areas of focus might improve each individual student’s outcome. Guidance counsellors and school principals can access charts and visualizations of discipline and behavioural trends, truancy, and test performance to identify students at-risk of dropping out, so they can more effectively intervene to help turn those students around.