The data will inform how she teaches from now on, Anderson says, reinforcing her “student-centered and student-directed” approach. For example, she and her students develop the rubric for ...

The University of South Florida, for example, created a Persistence Committee that uses data from its student information system and learning management system, as well as departmental expertise, to ...

The federal government collects reams of data about higher education, but data systems are often not connected or inclusive of all students, limiting the information available. The graduation rate, ...

For example, students in my class determined a change of the traditional formal class presentations to student-led TED Talks and/or video stories. Student data can be truly beneficial in improving ...

For example, let’s consider the student data management system PowerSchool to illustrate the difficulty in maintaining student privacy when there is leadership or ownership turnover.

Building a Student-Level Data System Comprehensive federal data on people in college would help institutions, students, states, and the federal government.

Increasingly, universities are collecting and analyzing student data for a variety of purposes. At the University of Arizona, for example, a researcher analyzed the swipes of student ID cards at ...

While CSU’s data analysis has been around for many years, the CSU Student Success Dashboard is a more recent phenomenon. What makes it different is that it’s only student success data—nothing about ...

Many teachers believe that analyzing student assessment data can improve performance, but the research suggests otherwise, writes Heather C. Hill.