Education Analytics

Education analytics support data-driven decision-making in K-12 schools and higher education institutions. These tools improve student outcomes and optimize operations across the education system. SAS solutions provide secure, cloud-ready environments for faster decision making in education.

Educators can use data to predict student performance on future assessments, enabling early interventions, individualized growth tracking and personalized learning recommendations. This approach helps identify strengths and areas for improvement across grades and subjects, while allowing educators to customize predictions for student success at key academic milestones. These milestones may include grade-level proficiency, high school graduation requirements and college readiness indicators such as Advanced Placement exams or standardized tests like the PSAT, SAT and ACT.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education equips educators across 500 districts throughout the commonwealth with powerful analytics and comprehensive visualizations through SAS EVAAS for K-12 to improve student placement, accelerate gifted learners and foster meaningful academic growth based on data-driven decisions.

• University of Nevada Las Vegas: The Office of Decision Support at UNLV turned to SAS to help secure and manage its comprehensive data to support decision making and reporting across the entire university. Through analytics-driven insights, they’ve boosted graduation rates by over 20% over the last five to six years, increasing the rate for underrepresented students to over 50%.
• University of North Texas: UNT was a “data-rich and insight-poor” institution that operated in siloes and faced issues with data integrity and data governance. By applying  SAS Data Management,  SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics, UNT’s Data Analytics and Institutional Research Department launched the Insights Program to save over $1 million while improving student outcomes, and empowered over 425 users across the university to make informed decisions using data.
• University of Idaho: The university has boosted institutional research with data governance and given administrators access to trusted, insight-rich data. Using SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics to model a shift to need-based aid, they discovered a way to enroll 20 to 25 more students who may not have enrolled due to affordability, equating to roughly $500,000 a year.
• Longview & Austin, Texas School Districts, While over 200 miles apart, the Longview and Austin school districts share the same approach to improving student performance through value-added analysis using SAS EVAAS for K-12 to follow the progress of individual students. They use that information to increase educational effectiveness. That contrasts with the use of school-level pass/fail rates by other schools as the exclusive indicator.
• The University of Central Florida: The university uses SAS Visual Analytics to improve decision making in moments that matter across campus. UCF has reduced data collection time by 50%, enabling faster, insight-driven decisions through customized dashboards with notable performance improvements in student success, faculty excellence, research, and philanthropy, supporting strategic growth for over 68,000 students.
• Curtin University: The university uses SAS Visual Analytics and a cloud-based reporting infrastructure to streamline operations across four countries, repurpose over 10 full-time roles and support 500 researchers with real-time funding dashboards, all while advancing its goal of becoming a global innovation leader.

SAS software and solutions are designed to support K-12 schools and school systems, colleges & universities, and higher education systems. SAS is focused on providing leaders in all these sectors with the means to find better ways to use data and AI to accelerate and improve data-driven decision making.

SAS EVAAS is designed to empower educators in K-12 schools to advance student learning through the use of powerful analytics and comprehensive visualizations. SAS EVAAS enables educators to predict student outcomes, track academic growth and make data-driven instructional decisions. Over 3,000 school districts across more than 25 states in the US use SAS EVAAS to provide teachers with another powerful way to consistently bring their very best to all their students every day.

SAS is designed to help higher education leaders forecast student enrollment, predict retention rates and predict the likelihood of graduation. It is also used to optimize financial aid strategies and analyze program effectiveness to improve student success rates.

SAS helps teachers understand student backgrounds, plan instruction and identify students who need support or enrichment. Administrators use SAS to evaluate program effectiveness, support professional development and make resource allocation decisions.

SAS brings more than 40 years of education expertise, purpose-built solutions for the education sector and proven results across thousands of institutions worldwide. It enables systematic improvements rather than just data reporting. SAS has been at the forefront of improving educational outcomes around the world since it was founded at North Carolina State University in 1976.