Providing Personalized Education Through Data Mining
How K-12 Education Dashboards Provide Personalized Education Through 4TellX Data Mining
School districts need to deliver a personalized learning experience to students to experience dramatic academic gains. The old adage of one size fits all does not work and never did. Our students are more diverse and require more from their education to meet the demands of our ever-changing world. Yet, a teacher with 5 classes and over 120 students may make every effort to know each student and their individual needs; however, with only 180 days in a school year, it takes time to get to know students and to also understand which strategies work best to accomplish learning goals. Although schools and districts collect data on every student, how does each teacher get access to the data so that the best instructional decisions can be made?
4TellX provides world-class analytics and custom reports in an easy to read dashboard so superintendents, administrators, and decision makers can create a personalized education for each student.
Big Data
When students first enter the school building, data is collected. From attendance, grades, course schedules, standardized tests, extracurriculars and more, districts have collected the data that is needed to support each student. District leaders can use the data to inform decisions. School leaders can use the data to determine which programs and interventions are working or not working. These decisions help entire school districts, schools, and groups of students. Resources can be allocated and reallocated to where they are most needed. The analytics can be used from top down and bottom up. Superintendents, administrators, and teachers can make decisions that meet the needs of their students.
Transparency and Accountability
The 4TELLX platform provides districts and schools a 360-degree view of a student including custom data to help superintendents, administrators, and students identify and resolve learning gaps. These gaps in the past took months, even years to identify because of the inability to organize the enormous amounts of data and get it to the people who need it. Yet, with 4TellX, the data is organized in an easy to read and interpret interface that can even predict future behavior. The information helps to alert faculty so they can intervene before learning gaps become classroom performance issues. 4TellX offers over 90% accuracy in analyzing data and predicting future student outcomes. It is an easy and fast method for decision makers, administrators and teachers to receive data in real time so informed decisions can be made to meet the needs and learning goals of individual students. The information allows for transparency and creates accountability.
Personalized Instruction
4TellX provides a dashboard so superintendents can locate information about students and classes in real time. Often, data is used at the district level to inform decisions; however, although necessary, it rarely gets to the teacher level. The administrators are in the trenches working to meet students’ individual learning needs, so it is imperative the information is provided in a simple way so staff can make decisions.
Due to classroom assessments, most teachers already know which students need extra support; however, with access to the 4TellX dashboard, administrators can now bolster what they know with even more data. They can determine what students know as well as what works for each individual student. Teacher knowledge about students can be more nuanced rather than relying solely on periodic assessments or the most recent state test.
The analytics also help superintendents better understand those students who can slip through the cracks, as well as students who are meant to achieve even more. The dashboard will show the predicted score on standardized tests for each individual student, so students can be grouped objectively into categories needing high, medium, or no intervention to succeed. This tool allows decision makers to quickly inform instructional decisions, counselors to address course selections, and administrators to update policy.
In addition to instructional decisions, the information on the dashboard will help teachers have informed conversations with students and parents. During parent/teacher conferences, the dashboard is one more tool teachers can show parents about their child’s progress. It also helps to create paths for the future where all involved have a say and the data to support decisions. Teachers can also have conversations with students to help them set realistic goals as they plan for their next course schedule or even their chosen career path.
Overall
The 4TellX data model provides stakeholders a dashboard with the ability to evaluate what is happening in schools in real time. This knowledge increases learning, transparency, and accountability, while allowing decision makers to assess trends in their district or school. The dashboard does not require anyone to be an analyst because all of the analytics have been done, and the dashboard shows the results in an easy to read format. Students, teachers, and administrators can get systematic feedback then use the information to improve performance. Stakeholders can look at individual students as well as class and school trends to inform decisions, thus encouraging positive outcomes in increased individualized learning, enhanced test-preparedness, improved identification of cheating, better course design, and reduced costs across districts. Contact us to learn more!
