The EduMetry Five-Step Process

Step 4: Analyze SLO Data

EduMetry makes data easy to use and understand through a LearningDashboard™ tool. Once SLO data have been captured, EduMetry carries out detailed analyses to uncover statistical patterns. These include cross-sectional analyses across courses or cohorts and longitudinal analyses over time. LearningDashboard™ is a customized interface for faculty and administrators to examine SLO data and from which to draw insights. By drawing on the power of data-analytics, an administrator can use LearningDashboard™ as a basis for improving individual courses or an entire curriculum. In addition, administrators can generate specialized reports to meet the SLO requirements set by state agencies and accreditors or even justify to potential donors how giving to a college or program is in line with the donor’s preferences and priorities.

In conjunction with Assess⁺™, LearningDashboard™ can deliver to academic administrators what statisticians have done for a long time: tap the power of analytics to mine data for patterns and insights. If the process is guided by a theory of learning (for example, Stages of Cognitive Development), the insights generated can be pedagogically powerful. More importantly, imagine being able to discern students’ strengths and weaknesses, so as to be able to design precise interventions in the classroom or pointed offerings aimed at meeting development-education needs!