EDUCATION DATA

School districts and state education agencies are increasingly realizing the power of their data. But accessing good data—data that tells you how well you are serving your clients and customers—is often easier said than done. Many organizations have established computer system "silos" that don’t connect to one another. This disconnected data impedes informed decision-making.

  • A state education agency can tell you how many years their teachers have been working in the state, but it can’t tell you whether teacher experience has any relationship to student success.
  • A school system can tell you that a student is taking advantage of a new reading program, but it can’t tell you whether that reading program actually leads to better results.
  • A teacher can tell you whether a student was in class to receive instruction, but she can’t tell you whether that student learned everything that was taught.

But implementing a data system is not just a technology project.  Just integrating your data silos alone will not improve your performance. It requires culture change management. Your organization also must change the way it uses data to make decisions, allocate resources, and evaluate performance.

UPD can provide you with subject matter and technical expertise in the planning, procurement, roll-out and implementation of education data systems and the long-term training and capacity-building necessary for sustained improvement. 

Whether you’re attempting to establish, Special Education Data Systems, Longitudinal Data Systems, Data Warehouses, Teacher and Administrator Value-Added Models, Student Growth Models, or Human Capital Management Systems, UPD can help ensure that you get the most out of your investment in technology.

____________________________________