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THREAD: “Our students are more than test scores." // That's why a team of IBM Service Corps members spent four weeks in Edgecombe County working to integrate student-level data from the North Phillips School of Innovation into one dashboard. #eddata 1/7 https://www.ednc.org/whats-the-state-of-student-data-we-found-out-on-the-ground-in-edgecombe-county/
Along the way, the IBM team learned about the challenges and opportunities of working with education data that is often siloed across multiple platforms and tricky to integrate. #eddata #nced @IBMVolunteers 2/7 https://www.ednc.org/whats-the-state-of-student-data-we-found-out-on-the-ground-in-edgecombe-county/
The IBM team extracted more than 30 files from five data sources, analyzed the data for errors and consistency, created seven custom scrubbers to prepare and clean the data in each of those files, created nine integrated data sets on Google Sheets ... 3/7 https://www.ednc.org/whats-the-state-of-student-data-we-found-out-on-the-ground-in-edgecombe-county/
... consolidated that data in the cloud, created seven dashboard pages in Google Data Studio to visually display the data, and ultimately navigated those dashboards to make insights. 4/7 https://www.ednc.org/whats-the-state-of-student-data-we-found-out-on-the-ground-in-edgecombe-county/
The IBM team attributed much of this cumbersome process to data maturity — or how integrated/accessible data is. The school district's data is considered level 1 out of 5 in data maturity, with multiple siloed data sources that can’t interact. 5/7 https://www.ednc.org/whats-the-state-of-student-data-we-found-out-on-the-ground-in-edgecombe-county/
To improve data maturity in the future, the IBM team recommended that the district assign a district-level data steward, develop a data quality improvement plan, and engage with data holders to clean the core data at the source. 6/7 https://www.ednc.org/whats-the-state-of-student-data-we-found-out-on-the-ground-in-edgecombe-county/
This data inquiry in one of NC's 115 school districts has us wondering about the state of data in schools & districts across the state. What would it take for all of the districts to have access to an integrated dashboard with clean student data? 7/7 https://www.ednc.org/whats-the-state-of-student-data-we-found-out-on-the-ground-in-edgecombe-county/
