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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.
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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.
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