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Education Analytics
What challenges keep you from helping your students make academic gains? PCG Education’s™ school data systems are customized to target and solve your ‘real world’ education problems, from at-risk student identification to state and federal reporting.
PCG Education™ blends expert technical, education, and
management consulting capabilities with data systems built on
open, national standards to provide proven solutions to an array
of public education challenges, including:
State and Federal Reporting
EDFacts, the Consolidated State Report, CCSSO’s State Education Data Center and other national data outputs.
School and Program Analysis
Student growth percentile calculations and other key performance indicators needed to support balanced
scorecard, school and district strategic planning, and program evaluation.
At-risk Student Identification
Dropout, behavior, and other at-risk early identification and prevention.
Instructional Improvement
State assessment item analysis and benchmark assessment predictive analysis.
Special Education Compliance
Disproportionality risk ratio calculations, compliance fidelity, and analysis of services prescribed versus services
delivered.
Meeting the Challenges
and Improving Student Achievement
PCG Education’s™ education analytics target today’s education
challenges, such as:
Drop-Out Rates
Over a million students drop-out of school annually. PCG
can identify students at-risk for dropping out as early as
possible and can help educators reduce drop-out rates
through targeted interventions.
Disproportionality
Across the nation, minority students are disproportionately
likely to be placed in special education programs when
intensive instructional services are instead needed. PCG
can work with schools to make the best use of diagnostic
data to identify students in need of additional instruction.
Funding and Vertical Reporting
All states must provide complete and accurate EDFacts
reports in order to be eligible to receive full federal funding.
Districts must assign state IDs and report key student and
staff snapshot data to states. PCG Education™ can map EDFacts
submission specifications to valid collection specifications
and can document each transformation needed to
assemble complete submissions. At the district level, PCG Education™
can map authoritative repository metadata to required
state submissions.
The PCG Education™ Approach
Integrated education consulting, professional development,
and organizational change management are central to PCG Education’s™ design. We build our district, state and national,
enterprise-scale technical tools to support school-based use.
Beginning with a mature, well documented set of data models
aligned to national standards, we customize systems with ETL
development, data mapping, and report design to adapt our
data model frameworks to specific client needs.
Our education consultants work in close partnership with
school and agency- based client staff and stakeholders to
facilitate agreement and document:
- existing systems;
- targeted usage scenarios; and
- design specifications.
- Our technology staff leverages public and proprietary frameworks
to efficiently deliver education data systems that include:
- ETL: data collection and validation,
- Data Warehouse: longitudinal relational and dimensional
central data stores,
- Portal: web-based access to analytic tools, data upload
tools, and
- Reports – outputs and presentations using technologies
such as Microsoft, Oracle, Cognos business objects.
Choosing Appropriate Technology
PCG Education™ has a long history of providing technology
solutions to support school-based processes and programs. We
have found a tendency in many districts and schools to use a
“bigger is better” approach to procuring new technology.
PCG Education’s™ approach is to first understand the needs of the school or
district, then help guide the organization to the right technology
– which, in some cases, may not be the most expensive system.
Given this core philosophy, PCG Education™ pairs the system
implementation with a professional development model
designed to increase systemic data use throughout the district,
at all levels, to help increase student performance.
PCG Education™'s Education Analytics services include:
Data Collection and Validation
PCG Education™ has a track record for delivering on-line, interactive, ETL and data collection/validation tools to support large and small scale data centralization initiatives, including unique student and staff identification.
Data Warehousing and Reporting
PCG Education's™ data warehouse is designed for ease of use and sustainable management. The PCG Education™ data models have been optimized with Microsoft’s SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) to achieve maximum performance and minimal total cost of ownership.
Growth Modeling
PCG Education’s™ statistical growth models capture and explain individual and cohort student growth across multiple years and assessments. Schools and districts can use these powerful models to analyze strengths and weaknesses in educational programming. PCGEducation’s™ psychometricians and educational experts work with LEAs and SEAs to create customized reports detailing student growth patterns.
Integrated Data Audit
PCG Education’s™ Data Audit services are available for LEAs and SEAs, both as stand alone planning services as well as the initial phase of a larger project. Our data audit methodology incorporates complex metadata and statistical documentation with usage scenarios, user surveys, and focus groups to document existing systems and plan new systems. We work with our clients to build Data Quality, Data Culture, and Data Capacity.
Portal and Security Management
PCG Education™ utilizes Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) to create single-sign-on (SSO), complex role-based identity management, and "Web 2.0" communication and collaboration services.
Program Evaluation
PCG Education™ specializes in customized program evaluations that utilize multiple methodologies and data sources to answer questions about program effectiveness, equity, accountability, and continuous improvement. PCG Education’s™ team of education specialists have conducted evaluations of local, state, and federally funded programs, specific interventions, and school reform initiatives across the country.
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