Hot Topic: Data Management

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Data: Maximize Your Mining, Part One
How schools can harness data over the long term to raise student achievement in a consistent, sustained manner.

Data: Maximize Your Mining, Part Two
Delivering targeted instruction to students at all levels isn’t easy. Here are some straightforward strategies.

How to Perform a Data Makeover
In School CIO (www.techlearning.com/schoolcio) (requires registration)
The true value of your district’s reservoir of information depends largely upon two things: the quality of the data and the tools you have to analyze it.

Mining with a Mission
Data-driven decision-making is the buzz phrase of choice for the new decade. But once we've got the information, how do we use it to yield results?

Data Can Drive Development
Attention staff developers: how to help teachers use data to design curriculum and analyze their instructional practices.

Digging for Data
No Child Left Behind's challenge: collect, analyze, and use information to improve student performance. We offer three different approaches.

The Administrator’s Guide to Data-Driven Decision Making
A step-by-step guide to setting up information management systems for decision support

PRODUCTS

Eight Buying Tips: Data Warehouses
Need a good place to store and manage all of your district's information? We provide essentials for making the right decision.

Buying an Assessment System: Five Considerations
How to select the right assessment management package for your school or district.

Student Information Systems Demystified
The increasing demand for accurate, timely data means schools and districts are relying heavily on SIS technologies. Here, key facts you need to know before investing in a new system.

Assessment Unplugged
From interactive systems for getting instant student feedback, to software that lets educators jot down observations on the fly, mobile assessment tools provide immediate impact.

Product Finder
CMP Media’s searchable product guide to analytics products and other data-related tools.

TIPS

Mopping and Scrubbing Dirty Data
Two techniques for ensuring the quality of your data

Free Tool
Learn about a new online data management tool for parents and educators.

Making the Case for Data
10 reasons why data-driven decision making benefits education

Data Mining: A Glossary of Terms
Know the difference between a histogram and a pivot table?