Making the Grade: Improving Student Performance with Data Mining

To improve educational outcomes, your school district needs better visibility into school and student data. You need to know how your students are performing, how your schools’ results compare over time, and which programs are effective or need improvement. Data mining helps K-12 educators and administrators answer these questions quickly and accurately. It helps you combine multiple data sources to reveal patterns that would be invisible with traditional analysis methods. The Hamilton County Department of Education (HCDE) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, achieved some of the best No Child Left Behind results in department history with data minin...