FAQ

Data warehousing is the secure electronic storage of information by a business or other organization. The goal of data warehousing is to create a trove of historical data that can be retrieved and analyzed to provide useful insight into the organization's operations.

Teachers and school systems have long collected and used data in some form or another, whether recording scores in a grade book to track progress and calculate final grades or examining standardized test scores to measure district-wide achievement. Teachers use data to help group students and inform instruction. Educational researchers analyze data to identify how factors such as nutrition, pre-K programs, and parental involvement impact achievement gaps. They can also assess whether interventions and policies positively or negatively affect outcomes such as graduation rates and the achievement of key learning milestones. This vital information prepares educational leaders with what they need to implement the most promising strategies and to advocate for policies that will most effectively close achievement gaps. (https://soeonline.american.edu/blog/data-driven-decision-making-in-education)

Dashboards have been created to help district leaders, building administrators, and teachers more efficiently review aggregated and disaggregated data. With the interactive features of these dashboards, you are able to sift through data more effectively and find patterns or anomalies faster. They are the starting place for an overall look at schools, grade levels, or programs.

As technology is constantly evolving the student resources are expanded exponentially and we are seeing mountains of data pile up. With the help of Decision Ed, we are now able to tackle the data that may have not been touched. As we are pulling data from the main systems, that doesn't mean we have all of the data you may need. Please Inquire if there is something you would like to see brought into our data warehouse.