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| What Is Data Warehousing and Why Is It Important? |
"Data warehousing is the coordinated, architected, and periodic copying of data from various sources, both inside and outside the enterprise, into an environment optimized for analytical and information processing." (Alan Simon, Data Warehousing for Dummies.)
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| School Improvement & Accountability in Education |
School Improvement and Accountability in Education are two of the most prominent and controversial topics in society today. Nationwide the focus of public attention is on our students, educators and administrators. While the demand for school improvement and the need for accountability is pronounced, there is a significant lack of tools available to educators.
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| Making a Difference in Education - Does Business Intelligence Have A Place In Education? |
Many educators are uncomfortable with the term "Business Intelligence". To some it seems too, well, businesslike and therefore inappropriate in an educational setting.
On closer examination, however, there is really no reason for educators to resist the idea of Business Intelligence. While the business community uses the term in different ways, the common underlying perception is that Business Intelligence implies exploring and understanding all aspects of a business. If intelligence means "The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge" it becomes clear that Business
Intelligence can just as easily be called Education Intelligence. The goals are the same, the tools are the same, the data elements are very different.
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| National Education Association - Data-Driven Decision Making and Student Achievement |
NEA Teaching and Learning Team July 2000
Schools routinely gather a great deal of data; in fact, they generally gather more than they can use (Wallace 1996). But they also often fail to use all this information--from test scores to attendance figures--to monitor what they are doing against the results they are getting. In short, schools tend not to be "data-driven organizations." Yet the need to be data-driven has never been greater. "After years of exhorting and cajoling schools to improve, policymakers have decided to get tough" (Education Week 1/11/99, p. 5). Accountability--linking rewards and sanctions to student performance--is the order of the day. What separates schools that successfully manage accountability demands, especially as they relate to student achievement, from those that do not is their effective use of data--an often neglected but essential tool.
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