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In order to make a difference in education, educators and administrators need to gain useful knowledge and draw insightful conclusions by letting data drive decision-making practices. Gone are the days of relying on hunches or gut feel to make decisions. Using an accurate picture of district information, you can enhance the achievement of all students by understanding each student’s academic progress and program performance – not just at the end of the year, but throughout the entire school year. As a result, student performance in K-12 can improve dramatically.
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Data-Driven Decision Making
This white paper describes the benefits of using data-driven decision making, as well as information and case studies on SAS onsite and hosted solutions for education.
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How SAS® Can HelpSAS enables you to overcome information barriers quickly, so you can consolidate, store, analyze and share high-quality information to make critical decisions affecting your school or district. Using SAS, the right intelligence can put the right resources in the right place to affect the student’s outcome when it’s needed and not after the fact. SAS helps you understand longitudinal trends to inform overall planning and intervene where trends are undesirable. The power of SAS also takes you beyond the reporting of historical information (what happened); it gives you the power of predictive analytics, so you can determine probable future outcomes (what might happen).
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SAS delivers software and services that help you:
- Access and integrate data in an accurate or timely manner from a wide variety of sources, such as information on students, grades, programs, personnel, facilities, finance, etc.
- Collect, report and analyze data to respond to state or federal accountability mandates (such as No Child Left Behind) or grant proposals quickly and easily.
- Power to store years of data longitudinally and utilize this information to identify trends and patterns that may influence current-day decision-making.
- View and analyze assessment and performance data on students to understand how students are doing during the year in order to intervene quickly for more successful student performance.
- Map student assessment scores to state standards to understand the most effective strategies for supporting student achievement.
- Measure program effectiveness and student progress to avoid surprises at end-of-year test time.
- Evolve from a manual process to a data-driven decision making process by accessing student data quickly, predicting outcomes and intervening to help students reach their potential.
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SAS provides two K-12 solutions for data-driven decision making:
- SAS OnDemand for K-12 is a Web-based hosted administrative data management solution designed for small to medium-size school districts.
- The SAS Enterprise Intelligence Suite for Education(PDF) is an on-site solution that integrates, manages and analyzes data, and then deploys that information across your school or district for effective data-driven decision making.
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