Educators and staff use intersecting data to determine the best practice for analyzing data sets in reference to their specific purpose and vision for continuous school improvement. The purpose involves dissecting the information you need to know.  Educators can then look at the questions needed to ask in order to get a full scope of the issues and find accurate data to analyze. As data is analyzed, educators may find that they need to ask additional questions or reflect on an additional data source to fully explore their purpose.

Predictive analytics and optimization are the highest from of data use. They can help an organization use data to predict and ensure success, as well as predict and prevent future failure. Staff can then provide intervention in a preventative manner in two ways: acting on predictors to ensure positive outcomes, or mitigating the risk by implementing remedial or intervention programs.