The SDP Toolkit for Effective Data Use is a resource guide for education agency analysts who collect and analyze data on student achievement. Completing the toolkit produces a set of basic, yet essential, human capital and college-going analyses that every education agency should have as a foundation to inform strategic management and policy decisions.
The human capital edition of the toolkit will give users insight into teacher recruitment, placement, evaluation, development, and retention. The college-going edition provides analytics for for on-time graduation trends, postsecondary enrollment, and persistence. The toolkit also provides information about the application of general business rules for defining key data elements.
The toolkit consists of five components, each mapped against a stage in the data collection and analysis process:
Identify essential data elements for analysing student achievement. |
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Clean, check, and build variables for your data set. |
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Connect relevant data sets from different sources. |
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Analyze your data sets. |
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Adopt best practices to facilitate shared and replicable data analysis. |