This document discusses developing classroom analytics using data from student information systems and assessment systems. It describes integrating student performance data, including grades, GPA, attendance and behavior records from SIS. It also covers importing assessment scores from test vendors and normalizing the data to allow for comparison using indicators and rubrics. The goal is to provide teachers, schools and districts analytics on student performance to support data-driven instruction and interventions.

1. K12 Classroom Analytics
Dylan Wan
October 20, 2017
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2. About Me
v 10+ year software architecture and development experiences
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 2017 – Senior Director of Engineering, PowerSchool, 1 year
 2016 – Solution Architect, Incorta, 1.5 years
 2008 ~ 2015 – Software Development Director, BI Application, 8+ years
 Before 2007 – various positions in Enterprise Apps Development
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 View MyLinkedinProfile
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3. What I will talk about
v What I did and learned at PowerSchool
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 From Assessment Analytics to Classroom Analytics
 Data Driven Instructions & Response to Interventions (RTI)
 Student Information System – Data Integration
 Assessment – Flexible Data Import and Load
 Indicator – Normalize data for comparison
 Dashboard design and challenges
 My perspectives about K12 Market and Opportunity
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4. Disclaimers
 The options expressed are my own and are not representing
PowerSchool
 The information provided in this presentation are general
knowledge and not specific to any specific product offering
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5. From Assessment Analytics to
Classroom Analytics
Assessment Analytics – Here is a link to the public information about
PowerSchool Assessment & Analytics
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 Several similar products on the market
 Most about reporting the assessment results
 “Longitudinal Data Analysis”
 Student Demographic
 Student Group
 Interventions
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Not just about “Assessment”, why not “Classroom Analytics”?
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6. Classroom Analytics
Teacher
School
Administrator
District
Administrator
Classroom
Analytics
Student
Information
System
Local Assessment
System
External Assessment
System
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7. Student Information System
 Deployed at the District Level
 A single instance shared by Multiple Schools
 Many SIS are hosted by vendors
 Source of Truth for Student records and Foundational data
 Source for Student Performance data
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v See K12 Student Information System Review from ITCentral
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8. Student Information System
Data Sync
 Foundational Data comes from Student Information System
 District
 School
 Course
 School Term
 Course Section
 Teacher
 Course Section Teacher
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 Student
 Student Course Enrollment
 Student Demographic
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9. DISTRICT
Student Information System
Data Model
SCHOOL TERM
SCHOOL
COURSE
SECTION
COURSE
COURSE
SECTION
ENROLLMENT
STUDENT
TEACHER
TEACHER
COURSE
ASSIGNMENT
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10. Ed-Fi and Edi-Fi Model
 A solution created for states for reporting
 ODS design
 Implemented in MS SQL based technologies
 Vendors provide reporting solutions
 Founded by Dell Foundation
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v Link to Ed-Fi Unifying Data Model - Teaching and Learning
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11. Student Information System
Data Sync
 We can get the Student performance data from SIS
 Student Grade, need to handle both letter grade and numeric
grade
 Student GPA
 Student Attendance
 Student behavior – Discipline and Incident Reporting
 Student Photo
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12. Student Information System
Data Sync
 How to get data out from SIS?
 Data Export
 REST API – Pull request
 Push API
 Kafka / AMQueue
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 See How to Install PowerSchool Plug-in
 PowerSchool Data Export Manager (Video)
 PowerSchool REST API (pdf)
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13. School Schedule and Term
 Scheduling Terms can be created with different structures: Semester, Trimester,
Quarter, etc. Scheduling Terms are entered for course sections
 Reporting Terms may be created for Student Grades. Grades are given to
students for the range and students do not move in or out from the courses.
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v Link to Infinite Campus online documentation : Add Terms
and Term Dates to Calendar
v Link to PowerSchool Scheduling custom doc from a school district
v Link to Reporting Term - Final Grades Setup in PowerSchool v 10
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14. Assessments
 Assessments are designed to measure student achievements and identify
the area that students may need help
 A test vendor may provide multiple assessments
 Assessments can also help teachers improve instructional strategies or, in
some cases, identify problems in curriculum.
 Standardized test are developed for comparing results. There are State
Summative and National tests
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v See:
What is the difference between formative and summative assessment?
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15. Assessment Data
Flexible Data Import and Load
 The test vendors provide files with student scores
 The assessments are scheduled over periods of time with different
administrations
 A file may have multiple scores, for totaled score, for different sections,
testing objectives and standards; It may have percentile or other
ranking information or provide calculated proficiency levels
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 See P
erformancePLUS Named Best Online School District Management System in 2014 Best Educ
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16. Indicator or Assessment Rubric
§ A score 90 is good or bad?
§ If the total score is 100, 90 may be good. How about the total score is 600? How
about the majority of students get less than 90?
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 A tool used to interpret or grade students' work against criteria and standards.
 A setup required for using Classroom Analytics
 A classical problem of converting numeric to categorical.
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v See: Utah Education Network Rubric Tool
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