Product Overview - EXPLORE

The Edvantage™ Technology consists of five main Decision Support Modules:

FAST TRACK - For rapid deployment of educational dashboards and school performance metrics

CORE - The affordable and powerful decision support foundation

EXPAND - More comprehensive and complex analysis capability & dashboard layouts

ADVANCE - Sophisticated analytic tools to gain insight into each school, classroom, and student

EXPLORE - For specialized research & predictive analysis

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EXPLORE

What is EXPLORE?

EXPLORE is the Edvantage™ module which provides the most comprehensive and detailed data structure in a highly customized environment to facilitate efficient enterprise reporting and unlimited custom query capability. EXPLORE extends the data foundations of FAST TRACK, CORE, EXPAND, and ADVANCE so technical users can employ data mining and other high-end analytical techniques for exploratory research purposes. All data is refreshed nightly through prescheduled automated build processes. Data elements support NCLB and State reporting requirements.

Who uses EXPLORE?

EXPLORE is useful for professional educational researchers, grant managers, consultants, policy makers, strategic planners and others who need to rely on technical reports and analysis when conducting exploratory educational research. Self-service information retrieval, drill-down analysis, comparative metrics, custom reports, and sophisticated statistical analysis for technical users is primarily accomplished through ad-hoc query and other custom data extractions. EXPLORE is also used for technical reporting and analysis activities such as longitudinal analysis and cohort tracking.

How does EXPLORE help with educational research and analysis?

EXPLORE helps uncover achievement gaps in literacy for specific groups of students, track longitudinal performance trends of specific groups of students in skill areas such as reading, writing, and mathematics, validate the importance of smaller learning community structures to improve student attendance, and bring to light other important issues through professional research and analysis. EXPLORE is used, as an example, to verify how student course grades are comparing to results on state assessments and other standardized measures, and to determine if grading patterns are reflecting consistency in grading criteria across learning communities and course offerings.