#ESPTwiminars: Action Reports – Follow & respond to tweets w/ lessons learned, insights, & processes. #ESPTwiminar1.1 http://t.co/4aQjJFpYot
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 23, 2015
Action Report Twiminar: Lessons learned about producing actionable reports that respond to decision makers’ real questions — ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 23, 2015
Action Report Twiminar: Follow the series of tweets, respond to participate in the discussion, claim your badge for participation.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 23, 2015
#ESPTwiminar1.2: Available data have grown exponentially with automated systems: SISs, LMSs, assessments, administrative systems. #eddata — ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 23, 2015
Action Report Twiminar: We may have too much data. Sources collect & give access to timely data, but maybe not actionable insights.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 23, 2015
These transactional data overwhelm users who try to make sense out of them. Too granular or too normalized for typical user. — ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 23, 2015
Real-time, process, transactional data are too detailed to inform most decisions outside a classroom. FERPA issues invoked for providers.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 23, 2015
These process data might be provided/mined for research projects to avoid collecting new data. Data governance processes needed. — ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 23, 2015
#ESPTwiminar1.3: Data usage evolved institutionally: accountability/accreditation, complex funding formulas, government mandates. #eddata
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 29, 2015
Action Report Twiminar: Institutional designs do support SLDSs but the data’re primarily for mandates, not decision support. — ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 29, 2015
These funding sources often have their interests/mandates as a priority rather than the questions of other users.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 29, 2015
#ESPTwiminar1.4: Usage of data has been stymied by the challenge of how to cherry pick valuable nuggets from terabytes of data. #eddata — ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 30, 2015
Action Report Twiminar: Dashboards, BI, & query systems can provide users too many ways to filter, slice/dice. Some may be inappropriate.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 30, 2015
Some breakouts chosen by users might be inappropriate views of the data and lead to misuses or just be a waste of time. — ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 30, 2015
IT/agencies shouldn’t be focused on giving users ALL analytic power, but on giving them the right reports, just the right data.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) January 30, 2015
#ESPTwiminar1.5: Too often reports are designed around available data rather than what people need to know or would use. #eddata — ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) February 4, 2015
Action Report Twiminar: Too many BI/dashboards throw all available data out there in all views possible without alignment with needs.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) February 4, 2015
To ensure usage/understandability, a report might need to stop at what the original question was rather than providing enhanced breakouts. — ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) February 4, 2015
#ESPTwiminar1.8: Data are not actionable. Reports/visualizations present data to answer questions and inform action.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) February 9, 2015
Action Report Twiminar: Data may be too granular to be useful; need to be transformed to useful metrics and indicators for groups. — ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) February 9, 2015
Data for individuals are actionable when presented timely in a usable medium/format. Personally identifiable data invoke FERPA issues.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) February 9, 2015
#ESPTwiminar1.12: #User of the #report must know it’s available–“push” or “pull.” Before user can “get it,” user must get it. #eddata — ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) February 16, 2015
Action Report Twiminar: Point of many #ActionReports is to alert the user that something needs to be done.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) February 16, 2015
#ActionReports can be scheduled to be on-demand, on schedule, or as data become available. #eddata — ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) February 16, 2015
#ESPTwiminar1.13: Don’t rely on standard templates. Your #legislature, #OfficialStatistics, #P20W #SLDS, and questions require more. #eddata
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) February 17, 2015
Action Report Twiminar: Wish we had a study of how often #StandardTemplates are used except by the users who originally asked for them. — ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) February 17, 2015
#StandardTemplates may provide “noise” (useless/excess info) making the true information targeting a decision or action harder to find.
— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) February 17, 2015
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— ESP Solutions Group (@espsg) February 19, 2015
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