Math Standards Based Assessments Pro

OVERVIEW

Project77 was engaged by a high performing middle and high school to help codify common core Math standard-aligned assessments and create a data visualization dashboard to empower teachers and school leaders to discover insights to support student learning.

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The Problem

Previously, the schools did not employ a standard Math assessment, which presented challenges in measuring growth of students over time across grade levels. When Project77 joined, the schools were transitioning from individually-created student Math assessments at the middle school level to standardized assessments across all grade levels.

The effort was launched to better gauge and understand the trends in student learning to effectively target interventions. Before the schools could come to understand data insights, it needed to build infrastructure to integrate, store, transform, analyze, and visualize its collected data.

Benefits

Project77’s data cleansing and customized data analysis provide its partners the benefit of focusing on what matters most: making well-informed and impactful evidence-based decisions.

What We Did

Worked with school liaisons to codify standard operating procedures for teacher-level data collection (i.e. normalized how measures were collected and validated data inputs to maintain integrity)
Performed data wrangling, using custom python scripts to transform data into an intelligent format conducive to year-over-year analysis
Prototyped a dashboard visualization for teachers to view summative class information and drill down to view statistics for each individual student
Conducted workshops with educators to build a common understanding of how they can explore data sets, form hypotheses, find insights, and create tangible action steps

Results

Educators are empowered to quickly identify the unique needs of every student and provide evidence-based differentiated support
School leaders have the capacity to see high-level trends to inform programming that best meets the needs of all students
Students are able to individually track progress, understand strengths, and effectively target areas of improvement

About Project77

Project77 empowers organizations with data insights and services to help drive decisions. Founded by social entrepreneurs and leaders in the education space, we bring cross-sector solutions to our partners through our expertise in using data analytics to drive best practice.

Data Aggregation, Feature Selection, and Model Selection

Project77 utilizes a variety of data techniques to glean meaningful insights from data. We specialize in statistical techniques such as linear/logistic regression, time series analysis, and unsupervised learning models (e.g. clustering, hierarchical clustering, k-means) and prescriptive analytics techniques such as Difference-in-Differences, Monte Carlo simulations, and optimization (i.e. Solver).

System Implementation and Customizations

For big data to be useful, the refined information needs to be able to bridge the gap between data silos and decision makers. Project77 works very closely with its partners to create customized reporting that end users can interpret and act upon. Additionally, we ensure that any outputs created can easily be integrated with current processes.

Intuitive Data Visualizations, Frameworks, and Reports

Project77 utilizes a variety of software packages to create visualizations that take complex findings and present them in a way that is informative and engaging. As the size and scope of data increases, the complexity of the data analysis increases as well. Project77 synthesizes the analysis and insights of data with powerful data visualization packages to produce valuable, meaningful, and actionable outputs.

Programming Languages Used: Python, SQL, R, and VBA

Project77’s knowledge of popular programming languages used in data analytics allows us to tackle data issues with unprecedented approaches towards statistical analysis, automation, and efficiency development.

Personal Data Coaching, Change Management, and Technical Support

Project77 strongly believes in a hands-on approach when cleaning, transforming, and interpreting data. We want to ensure a deeper and more insightful understanding of the data to encourage a well-informed decision-making process. Our skillsets not only allow us to process complex educational data, but also to effectively communicate information back to all relevant stakeholders.

Why We Do What We Do

The common thread that links high performing organizations is the ability to build strategic processes, measure effectiveness, learn insights, and continuously adapt to better serve stakeholders. We strive to help make education organizations agile, by identifying problem areas and barriers to student success, creating sustainable measurement frameworks based on data, and providing targeted recommendations. Our aim is to work with our partners to provide long-term solutions that dramatically impact student learning and success.

Our Team

Chris Russell

CO-FOUNDER

Enrique Parada