Transform K-12 Education with Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS)
As state education agencies strive to improve secondary education and ready children for the challenges of global competitiveness, organizations have outlined specific goals to assist in realizing this mission:
- Higher educational standards and an improved assessment system to help students succeed in college and in their careers
- Improved SLDS to gauge the growth rate and academic potential of students, enabling educators to enhance instruction
State education organizations need to capture, correlate, aggregate, analyze, and distribute data from disparate sources, in various formats, and in ways that improve decision making and educational outcomes. Their challenge is to capture and link multiple data points that reside in disparate SLDS and in different formats to create a much more comprehensive and meaningful view of students, faculty, and schools to positively impact outcomes and improve service delivery.
The Informatica Solution for K-12 Education
The Informatica solution for K-12 education allows educators to unlock the mysteries of why some students prosper and others struggle. Using SLDS data to uncover relationships and patterns hidden in a multitude of systems, the solution enables education agencies to make better decisions for and in the classroom, identify potential high-risk students, analyze performance trends, and drive improvements in curriculum, delivery, and measurement through SLDS
With this solution, agencies can:
- Create a single, trusted view of all educational SLDS data—such as data on students, teachers, schools, and districts
- Provide unparalleled visibility into the relationships among SLDS data even when that data is stored in different formats and multiple systems
- Transform inconsistent, duplicate, and conflicting SLDS data into the single best version of the truth—a golden record for state education agencies.
- Profile data, identify anomalies, create and validate data quality rules, and cleanse and standardize data in SLDS
Key Capabilities of the Informatica Solution for K-12 Education
With the Informatica solution for K-12 education, IT organizations in state education agencies can support current and future demands for comprehensive, reliable educational data—and do so cost effectively though the SLDS grant program. The solution is ideal for capturing and linking educational data, regardless of its format or source, and providing access to SLDS data for analysis. Its intuitive, self-service tools empower educational and oversight analysts to access SLDS data themselves, freeing IT resources to focus on more complex data integration tasks.
The solution is based on the Informatica Platform and features the following capabilities:
- Empowerment of state agencies to consume, manage, and monitor master data, as well as maintain full and accurate records and keep those records confidential and secure
- Access, integration, and delivery of data of any volume, for any application, from virtually any source, in any format
- A central place to enforce security, service level agreements, and compliance to insulate agencies from ongoing changes to applications and systems
- Data profiling, identification of data anomalies, data quality rule creation and validation, reduction of data redundancy, and data cleansing and standardization
- Support for a strong data governance program that focuses on data quality, protecting sensitive student data, and promoting efficient data sharing