by Jordan Benedict | Jun 6, 2015 | Blog
A common area for learning analytics is to look for ways to support struggling students. Largely, the focus has been on how to identify students of concern. In a free and open report, a collaboration of researchers from major Universities have outlined exactly that: how to identify students who may not graduate high school. (more…)
by Jordan Benedict | Jun 5, 2015 | Blog
I got my hands on a beautiful dataset of 65,000 entries of standardized tests from 2008-present with 71 columns. We’re talking over 4.5 million data points! Time for my first analysis. (more…)
by Jordan Benedict | Jun 4, 2015 | Blog
In the 1980’s and 1990’s, there was a push in the United States to have every student reach algebra by 8th grade. It was a political measure mostly to compete with the results of other countries. However, it seems that experiment has failed and now with the advent of the Common Core, they have explicitly warned against accelerating the progress of learning mathematics. Here’s what it says: (more…)
by Jordan Benedict | Jun 3, 2015 | Blog
As Data Scientists, gathering data and learning results is only half the battle, the other half is telling the story of the data in a way that impacts consumers of your data. (more…)
by Jordan Benedict | Jun 2, 2015 | Blog
The American School of Bombay has a distinct advantage over many top international schools: they have a robust R&D department with a talented Data Scientist. (more…)