IBM Global Center for Smarter AnalyticsHoward School, progress has been evendramatic, with the graduation rate tripling over sixyears, culminating in athe last year. "We went from one in four graduating tothree in four graduating. You can't ask for better thanthat in six years," says Howard principal Paul Smith."Though we're not sati sfied until we're at 100 percent,we're happy with the progress."morenearly 10 percent increase inBusiness objectivesIdentify students who have a high risk ofdropping out of schoolIdentify special needs of subgroups of studentsIdentify aperformance of the students against toevaluate the performance of the teacherbenchmarkto compare theWhile educational intelligence has largely beendirected toward identifying and helping individualstudents, Hamilton County ispredictive analytics into day-to-day teaching andlearning activities. Educators have always known thatthealso incorporatingQuestions1. Identify how predictive analytics was used tosolve the business problem. Explain how thepredictive analytics solution works.2. Identify how analytics culture was built in thebehaviorroots of poor performance and drop-outin high school often reach back far into a student'searly grades. Analyticseducators to better understand how these adverseis enabling HamiltonCountycompany.3. Identify another possible predictive analyticssolutions can be applied in schools. Identifythe data that you need to be able to providethis predictive solution. Explain how thispredictive analytics solution works.s academic life cycle-patterns form over the student'sand what they can do to correct them. It's seen in theway Hamilton County teachers have formed networksto more intensively interact with each other bothacross grades (e.g., high school and middle school)and within grades (e.g., a math teacher interacting witha social studies or English teacher) in the interests ofindividual students. A comprehensive and dynamicviewofthestudent-crossingeducationalS.comboundaries-is what makes this po ssible.Hamilton County is also leveraging analytics to createinnovative teacher incentive programs. By looking atthe historical relationship between eighth-grade testscores and high school exams, the county is able topredict, in effect, a baseline performance benchmarkfor each student. By compensating teachers based ontheir ability to beat this rigorous benchmark, HamiltonCounty is using predictive analytics to encourageperformance improvements for both teachers andstudents.also providing Hamilton Countypinpointopportunities to adjust the curriculum to meet thespecific subset of the student population.For example, when analysis showed that male studentswere scoring below females on the state's writingassessment test, Hamilton County responded byimplementing a system-wide approach to address theneeds of male students and close the performance gap.Analyticsisadministratorswiththemeanstoneeds ofIBMо Сорyright IBM Coгporation 2013IBM PhilippinesIBM Plaza, Libis, Quezon CityMay 201313 IBM Global Center for Smarter AnalyticsCase Analysis 7: Hamilton Countydropout rates and lagging performance required thecounty to address these problems on the individualstudent level.Department of EducationBut that meant first finding the students who neededhelp, and doing so before their problems led them todrop out of the Hamilton County school system. At theend of the day, there's no one better positioned tosense when the student is in academic trouble than ateacher or counselor with whom students have a directrelationship. The trouble is, warning signs are oftencomplex and cumulative in nature, thus escaping thenotice of frontline educators and administrators. Addto that the everyday challenges of running a classroom,and it's all the more understandable how problemstudents can fly “under the radar" until it's too late.PARIMENTZONETEDUCATIONKelly recognized that early detection of at-riskstudents required a more multidimensional view oftheir progress, performance and path through theHamilton County school system. To accomplish this,Kelly developed a performance modeling tool thatextracts individual student data from the county's 78schools and uses it to create predictive profiles, whichhelp to flag those students in need of proactiveintervention by teachers or counselors. Using built-inalgorithms, the model determines which factors are thestrongest predictors ofout. Based on the outcomes of the model, each studentis placed into one of four performance categories.Identifying those students labeled "fragile" or "off-track" is just the beginning of a process whoseultimate aim is the success of the student.Company BackgroundThe Hamilton County Department of Education is adiverse school system, providing roughly 42,000students with a world class education. The system isnationally renowned for urban school success as wellas middle school and high school reform. The districtoffers a variety of educational programs for allstudents including magnet schools, career academiesand gender-based classes as well as a focus onindividual student success and thestudent failing or droppinggoalstudents to compete in the Global Economy.of preparing allIt started a few years ago, when Hamilton Countybegan looking into why its students were consistentlyscoring below state benchmarks on standardized tests.Administrators didn't get far before realizing theylacked the kind of detailed, granular data that would benecessary to understand the factors that contributed tothe poor performance, much less act on the problem.What little performance data Hamilton County hadbeen receiving came from state scoring reports (as partof No Child Left Behind), which provided a lumpy,aggregated measure of whether the county's 40,000students were on track.Hilary Smith is a key part of that process. Based at theHoward School of Academics and Technology inChattanooga, some 15 miles away from the homeoffice, Smith is the Department of Education's LeadCounselor. Howard is an inner-city school, long seenas epitomizing the kinds of problems- such as highrates of dropping out and disciplinary problems-thatHamilton County is trying to address. When Smithfirst came to Howard seven years ago, it graduated justone in four students, a far lower graduation rate thanthe county as a whole.The other key indicator Hamilton County tracked onits own was the share of its students that graduatedfrom high school. Kelly and his colleagues realized alltoo well that dropout rates and student performancewere affected by many of the same factors-in someways, two sides of the same coin. But most of all.Kelly's experience-gained as a teacher and aprincipal earlier in his 18 years in the HamiltonCounty system-taught him that beneath the numberswere children, and that solving tough problems likeFor Hamilton County as a whole, that difference isalready apparent in a graduation rate that has increasedby more than 8 percentage points in the last year, tonearly 80 percent.standardized testing scores have also increased bymore than 10 percent for both math and reading. At theOver the past few years,12

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IBM Global Center for Smarter AnalyticsHoward School, progress has been evendramatic, with the graduation rate tripling over sixyears, culminating in athe last year. &#34;We went from one in four graduating tothree in four graduating. You can't ask for better thanthat in six years,&#34; says Howard principal Paul Smith.&#34;Though we're not sati sfied until we're at 100 percent,we're happy with the progress.&#34;morenearly 10 percent increase inBusiness objectivesIdentify students who have a high risk ofdropping out of schoolIdentify special needs of subgroups of studentsIdentify aperformance of the students against toevaluate the performance of the teacherbenchmarkto compare theWhile educational intelligence has largely beendirected toward identifying and helping individualstudents, Hamilton County ispredictive analytics into day-to-day teaching andlearning activities. Educators have always known thatthealso incorporatingQuestions1. Identify how predictive analytics was used tosolve the business problem. Explain how thepredictive analytics solution works.2. Identify how analytics culture was built in thebehaviorroots of poor performance and drop-outin high school often reach back far into a student'searly grades. Analyticseducators to better understand how these adverseis enabling HamiltonCountycompany.3. Identify another possible predictive analyticssolutions can be applied in schools. Identifythe data that you need to be able to providethis predictive solution. Explain how thispredictive analytics solution works.s academic life cycle-patterns form over the student'sand what they can do to correct them. It's seen in theway Hamilton County teachers have formed networksto more intensively interact with each other bothacross grades (e.g., high school and middle school)and within grades (e.g., a math teacher interacting witha social studies or English teacher) in the interests ofindividual students. A comprehensive and dynamicviewofthestudent-crossingeducationalS.comboundaries-is what makes this po ssible.Hamilton County is also leveraging analytics to createinnovative teacher incentive programs. By looking atthe historical relationship between eighth-grade testscores and high school exams, the county is able topredict, in effect, a baseline performance benchmarkfor each student. By compensating teachers based ontheir ability to beat this rigorous benchmark, HamiltonCounty is using predictive analytics to encourageperformance improvements for both teachers andstudents.also providing Hamilton Countypinpointopportunities to adjust the curriculum to meet thespecific subset of the student population.For example, when analysis showed that male studentswere scoring below females on the state's writingassessment test, Hamilton County responded byimplementing a system-wide approach to address theneeds of male students and close the performance gap.Analyticsisadministratorswiththemeanstoneeds ofIBMо Сорyright IBM Coгporation 2013IBM PhilippinesIBM Plaza, Libis, Quezon CityMay 201313 IBM Global Center for Smarter AnalyticsCase Analysis 7: Hamilton Countydropout rates and lagging performance required thecounty to address these problems on the individualstudent level.Department of EducationBut that meant first finding the students who neededhelp, and doing so before their problems led them todrop out of the Hamilton County school system. At theend of the day, there's no one better positioned tosense when the student is in academic trouble than ateacher or counselor with whom students have a directrelationship. The trouble is, warning signs are oftencomplex and cumulative in nature, thus escaping thenotice of frontline educators and administrators. Addto that the everyday challenges of running a classroom,and it's all the more understandable how problemstudents can fly “under the radar&#34; until it's too late.PARIMENTZONETEDUCATIONKelly recognized that early detection of at-riskstudents required a more multidimensional view oftheir progress, performance and path through theHamilton County school system. To accomplish this,Kelly developed a performance modeling tool thatextracts individual student data from the county's 78schools and uses it to create predictive profiles, whichhelp to flag those students in need of proactiveintervention by teachers or counselors. Using built-inalgorithms, the model determines which factors are thestrongest predictors ofout. Based on the outcomes of the model, each studentis placed into one of four performance categories.Identifying those students labeled &#34;fragile&#34; or &#34;off-track&#34; is just the beginning of a process whoseultimate aim is the success of the student.Company BackgroundThe Hamilton County Department of Education is adiverse school system, providing roughly 42,000students with a world class education. The system isnationally renowned for urban school success as wellas middle school and high school reform. The districtoffers a variety of educational programs for allstudents including magnet schools, career academiesand gender-based classes as well as a focus onindividual student success and thestudent failing or droppinggoalstudents to compete in the Global Economy.of preparing allIt started a few years ago, when Hamilton Countybegan looking into why its students were consistentlyscoring below state benchmarks on standardized tests.Administrators didn't get far before realizing theylacked the kind of detailed, granular data that would benecessary to understand the factors that contributed tothe poor performance, much less act on the problem.What little performance data Hamilton County hadbeen receiving came from state scoring reports (as partof No Child Left Behind), which provided a lumpy,aggregated measure of whether the county's 40,000students were on track.Hilary Smith is a key part of that process. Based at theHoward School of Academics and Technology inChattanooga, some 15 miles away from the homeoffice, Smith is the Department of Education's LeadCounselor. Howard is an inner-city school, long seenas epitomizing the kinds of problems- such as highrates of dropping out and disciplinary problems-thatHamilton County is trying to address. When Smithfirst came to Howard seven years ago, it graduated justone in four students, a far lower graduation rate thanthe county as a whole.The other key indicator Hamilton County tracked onits own was the share of its students that graduatedfrom high school. Kelly and his colleagues realized alltoo well that dropout rates and student performancewere affected by many of the same factors-in someways, two sides of the same coin. But most of all.Kelly's experience-gained as a teacher and aprincipal earlier in his 18 years in the HamiltonCounty system-taught him that beneath the numberswere children, and that solving tough problems likeFor Hamilton County as a whole, that difference isalready apparent in a graduation rate that has increasedby more than 8 percentage points in the last year, tonearly 80 percent.standardized testing scores have also increased bymore than 10 percent for both math and reading. At theOver the past few years,12

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