In the digital age, nearly all college activities take place online — from interacting with student services to managing financial aid and participating in classroom engagement. As a result, ...

Educators, students, and families weathered historic interruptions in learning over the past few years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Student achievement, predicted to slide in the ongoing chaos, ...

Each school year, one important task on a principal’s plate is to review student-achievement data to identify trends and adjust goals. However, several common misinterpretations and misuse of such ...

Educators generate and collect student Individualized Education Program (IEP) data daily. Because of the number of stakeholders involved in the IEP development and implementation, student data sets ...

Effective data strategies give higher education institutions the clarity and agility they need to thrive in a changing landscape.

When information-technology and higher-education leaders reunited in Philadelphia in October 2021 for the first in-person Educause conference in two years, buzzwords floated around the panel rooms: ...

The struggle to protect students’ privacy while making use of the data collected on them in school has for years been focused on the role of outside companies. But while that debate has raged in ...

In Spring 2023, Professor Dana Willner's DATA 303, Data Visualization students used their data science skills to illustrate data shared on the Student Enrollment Trends page. The dashboards below were ...

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Aushanae Haller ’23J sees data science as “a Sherlock Holmes type of thing. You sort through data, analyze it and find a story.” Haller first became interested in the subject in high school and took ...

Sexual misconduct allegations involving both students and teachers, children’s special education records and their vaccine histories are readily available online after the Providence, Rhode Island, ...