Arrowhead Regional Computing Consortium

Assessments

 

 Contact

Dale Nielsen

Email: dnielsen@arcc.org

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Phone: (218) 723-1700 ext 108

 

Links

The link below, will take you to MDEs Data Downloads page where you can get all the historical aggregated data for the entire state. 

 

MDE Assessment Data Downloads

 

The following website has some nice online tutorials for Pivot Analysis

Iowa State University - Center for Advance Study of Technology Leadership in Education

 Online Support

 

 

Meetings
Stay tuned for details on AAAPI Training Workshop at NESC
Announcements

Want to see and overview of ARCC's assessment analysis components?  Click Here!


September - 2009

Education Enhancement Through Technology Grant

ARCC was recently notified that it has been awarded an Education Enhancement Through Technology (E2T2) grant.  We are participants in the grant along with the Northeast Service Cooperative.  ARCC's part in the grant will afford the purchase of a new server to use as an assessments data warehouse and purchase training for other grant participants.  It looks like we'll all be getting together again for training at NESC in the near future.  Training will include the Compass Learning System and ARCC Assessments.

 

ARCC Analytics Rollout

Several districts have elected to flip the switch on and have given their teachers access to the new data warehouse in the form of Teacher's Assessments Reports.  I keep hearing "...the teachers like this."  from my contacts.  There have even been a few suggestions for feature enhancements.  Everything's running smoothly on our end.  The transition from last year's rosters to the current year has been smoother than expected and work will now resume on SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS ).

 


August - 2009

2009 Data Has Been Processed

2009 Excel Assessments Analysis workbooks have been prepared and sent to all particpating districts.  If you didn't receive workbooks and think that you should, please contact Dale Nielsen at ARCC.

 

The ARCC Analytics Data Warehouse has also been updated with MCA II data from 2009.

 

NWEA MAP Data

Anyone interested in storing their MAP data in ARCC Analytics should contact Dale Nielsen at ARCC.

 

Data Mining Tools

Infinite Campus is partnering with a Tableau dealer in Colorado.  Tableau is a popular data mining and decision making software application.  ARCC Management has decided to use, and to some degree support Tableau for use with the Campus Data Warehouse.  Contact Jim Livesay for details. 

 

Research for possible deployment/use of MS SQL Server Analysis Services [SSAS] will resume in September.  Although SSAS does have some internal charting tools, it's really more focused on tabular presentation of data.  This is a SQL service that ARCC already owns, but has not yet deployed.  It also differs from Tableau in that it is 'SQL-centric' in nature - meaning it will only work with data in an SQL table residing in an SQL Server instance.  So, why pursue SSAS if Tableau is prettier and more flexible?  ...Because SSAS is already paid for and if it can get the job done it makes sense to explore/exploit its potential.

 


If you're interested in finding out more about assessment analysis for your district please contact Dale Nielsen at ARCC. Contact information is shown at the upper right of this screen.

 

Click Here to Catch up on past announcements!


Invitation to ARCC Member Districts:

If you'd like your district data prepared and graphed for internal use, please contact Dale Nielsen.

 

Downloads

...For 'Do-It-Yourself'-ers

 

MCA II Data Groomer

V2.0

October - 2008

 User Guides
...For MS Office 2003
...For MS Office 2007
Useful Excel Tips & Tricks

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