Student data are used to explore trends and/or satisfaction in two distinct ways- aggregate reporting and activity assessment. Aggregate reporting is used to assess trends in engagement and attendance ...

While student data has long been mined to support retention efforts and institutional decision-making, the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced new and sometimes troubling uses for data in higher ...

For example, let’s consider the student data management system PowerSchool to illustrate the difficulty in maintaining student privacy when there is leadership or ownership turnover.

The data will inform how she teaches from now on, Anderson says, reinforcing her “student-centered and student-directed” approach. For example, she and her students develop the rubric for ...

The federal government collects reams of data about higher education, but data systems are often not connected or inclusive of all students, limiting the information available. The graduation rate, ...

Increasingly, universities are collecting and analyzing student data for a variety of purposes. At the University of Arizona, for example, a researcher analyzed the swipes of student ID cards at ...

Retention schedules, cloud storage and research data complicate student data privacy initiatives.