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eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for Postsecondary
The eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for Postsecondary is built off of eScholar’s experience with the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for PK-12 which is the most widely used commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software solution for gathering and managing Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade educational data.
The eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for Postsecondary’s comprehensive, detailed and longitudinal structure is crucial to the analysis demanded by state educators who want to foster a data-driven decision-making environment and meet emerging federal and state reporting requirements.
At the core of CDW-PS is the most complete data model in the postsecondary education data warehouse market. With over 500 data elements, representing critical data such as institution and campus attributes, facts, and history, student and staff demographics, qualifications, student educational background, courses, course enrollment, degrees earned, financial aid and transfer information, and more, CDW-PS enables education agencies to not only accelerate their time to implementation and reduce implementation risk and cost, but also dramatically improve their ability to meet federal and state reporting mandates.
CDW-PS incorporates data loading, data transformation, data quality and data management capabilities that are built on eScholar’s twelve years of experience working with thousands of local and state agencies representing millions of students. The out-of-the-box data model has enabled SEA customers to map to over 90% of their required data with no customization or enhancement. In addition to these capabilities, CDW-PS incorporates a browser-based data submission and management facility that can be used to configure data quality rules and a myriad of other data management activities.
CDW-PS is compatible with both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database platforms and supports use of any ODBC-compliant reporting, OLAP or analytical software product to create both longitudinal analyses as well as reports to meet federal and state reporting requirements.
As part of eScholar’s complete product and services offering, CDW-PS is fully supported and enhanced by eScholar and integrates with eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for PK-12 and eScholar Uniq-ID® products.
Review the overall capabilities of the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for Postsecondary.
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“With eScholar CDW for Postsecondary we will have access to a wealth of student level data which will enable us to, among other things, do sophisticated analyses of student progression and pipeline issues, produce high school feedback reports, and research answers to some of the more difficult questions facing higher education policymakers. Of course what will ultimately allow us to accomplish these tasks is the fact that we have in place both the eScholar CDW for Postsecondary and the CDW for PK-12.”
David Tandberg, Special Assistant at the Pennsylvania Department of Education
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“eScholar has been a valuable partner in our efforts to expand the scope of data collected in the Pennsylvania Information Management System. CDW-PS v12.0 enables us to continue this expansion into new data sets including postsecondary program attributes and measures at the most granular, student level, which we expect will give us even greater insight into improving student outcomes both at the postsecondary and K-12 levels.”
Dave Ream, PIMS Project Manager at the Pennsylvania Department of Education