California Offices

The Dougherty Group
Pleasanton, CA 94566
(408) 398-1312

Florida Offices

The Dougherty Group
1446 Berkshire Drive
Winter Park, FL 32789
(407) 539-0150 Office
(408) 398-1312 Cell
(407) 645-3486 FAX

Members Only
Web Mail

Click Icon to Login ...

EDU IQ 'Point & Click' Data Analytics for K-12 Stakeholders

DESIRED STATE Empowering all district stakeholders with the ability to make qualified, informed, data-driven decisions ... easily!

21st Century school districts are grappling with the challenges and pressures of increasing student performance while dealing with the realities of ever changing student populations, increased student mobility, and being tasked to do ‘more with less' in the face of dwindling budgets and resources. Adding to the challenge, is the pressure levied by Federal mandates, such as NCLB, and ever-changing State reporting formats which demand improvements in student performance and operational effectiveness.

Additionally, access to State and Federal funding sources is often dependent upon timely, accurate, and reliable data reporting. However, while all Districts have databases of data regarding – attendance, enrollment, demographics, infractions, certifications, financial performance, test scores, benchmark performance, etc. – often most of the time is spent trying to find, access, and scrub the data leaving no time to analyze and look for the information knowledge contained within the data. Funding is lost due to inaccurate reporting, trends go undetected, and public scrutiny increases.

OUR SOLUTION

EDU IQ is an easy to use, browser-based Data Analysis and Mining solution that allows K-12 school district administrators to spot trends, predict outcomes, and make faster, better, data-driven decisions by finding the knowledge in their volumes of data.

This knowledge tool automatically and seamlessly pulls data from a variety of sources including Student Information, Finance, High and Low Stakes Assessment Systems, Human Resources, Gradebooks, and more allowing administrators to answer pressing questions. With EDU IQ, K-12 Administrators can easily view data and answer questions about what is going on in their District, Schools, and Classrooms.

EDU IQ has demystified and simplified complex but valuable functions, data disaggregation and data mining, for non-technical users. All data is always disaggregated - automatically. No more manually transcribing Excel data or complicated merging of text files. Aggregate and view data by just pointing and clicking.

Q3 Solutions, coupled with EDU IQ empowers Districts to:

• Gain instant and seamless access to all the key silos of data in your District through a user-friendly graphical interface that can create customized pie charts, bar graphs and other visual renderings and reports.
  
• Enable users to view at the District level or ‘drill down' to school and grade to isolate information.
  
• Leverage the power of analytics through a centralized, high performance, scalable operation data store (ODS) that was designed to put the power of data mining into the hands of non-technical administrators - easy to learn and easy to operate.
  
• Monitor District Metrics displayed through ‘role-based' interactive dashboards that can be customized to District and/or School needs.

THE APPROACH

EDU IQ's unique approach to solving the business intelligence dilemma begins by helping administrators spot trends and identify potential problems. After working with our customers to identify key metrics, The IQ tool can extract and synchronize data from any of the organization's existing data sources, whether as complex as SQL or as simple as a .csv file sent from the state board. This data is pulled together and stored as objects on secure servers. The information is then conveniently displayed giving the user the ability to easily navigate a large number of data dimensions and fields. Because all of the information is stored as an assigned object, decision makers are able to re-categorize data sets on the fly, through the tree technology and view with graphic interfaces or export to Excel, print or pdf report format.