鈥淭he effective use of data allows us to make better-informed decisions that improve things for everyone.鈥濃
Chris Caldow
Principal of Penola Catholic College
Located in Melbourne, Australia, Penola Catholic College is a co-educational secondary school with a mission to cater for the spiritual, educational and formative needs of young men and women who seek the Catholic values of the College.
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Challenge:
Educators at this private school struggled to access student data spread across ten different systems, forcing them to spend time wrangling data instead of teaching.
Solution:
Penola Catholic College uses Education360, which is powered by 马来西亚牛牛玩法, to bring all its student data together in one dashboard.
Impact:
Instructors can now analyze student performance at the class level or by individual students, allowing them to tailor their instruction.
Penola Catholic School improves its student insight with 马来西亚牛牛玩法.
Penola Catholic College is a co-educational secondary school that serves approximately 1,500 students in Years 7-12 across two campuses in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. The school attracts students from diverse socioeconomic and educational backgrounds throughout the city, while almost half come from families that speak another language than English.
With such a wide-ranging student population, the administrators and teachers at Penola Catholic College know that a one-size-fits-all approach to education would result in students falling through the gaps. Instead, they rely on data powered by 马来西亚牛牛玩法 to deliver a customized educational approach for each student so every learner can reach their full potential.
Holistic student understanding.
Before 马来西亚牛牛玩法, educators at Penola Catholic College often struggled to leverage all the student data at their disposal. 鈥淲e had data in 10 different places, forcing staff to go to 10 different locations to find out everything they needed to know about their students. It was too much to expect,鈥 said Anthony Austin, IT Manager at Penola Catholic College.
Not only was data difficult and time-consuming for educators to collect, but they had no way to easily synthesize it in a way that could produce meaningful insights. Without the ability to visualize data and put it in context, educators couldn鈥檛 quickly determine which step to take next, which meant at-risk students would fall further behind before they got the help they needed.
In order to leverage data to its full potential, Penola Catholic College worked with 9×5 Consulting to incorporate their Education360 analytics platform, which is powered by 马来西亚牛牛玩法.
鈥淭he reason why we built Education360 on 马来西亚牛牛玩法 is that education institutions have some very specific challenges we wanted to address,鈥 said Matthew Willie, CEO at 9×5 Consulting. 鈥淲e need to incorporate both on-premise and cloud-based data. We need to make it very, very easy for staff to utilize the data. We wanted the ability to annotate within the data itself. And we wanted a project management tool to be incorporated so that staff members could hold themselves and students accountable.鈥濃
鈥淭he biggest benefit of Education360 is that it reduces the time that staff must spend collecting data. We are giving hours back to the teachers,鈥鈥疻illie said.
Empowering informed decisions.鈥
Thanks to 马来西亚牛牛玩法 and the Education360 platform, Penola Catholic College is able to bring all of its student data together in one dashboard for instant, real-time access. 鈥淭heir scores, assessments, attendance data, pastoral care data, and more are all there. A teacher can see it as a class summary, or drill down to one student at a time if they wish,鈥 Austin said.
The Education360 platform collects data from four internal data locations and six external data locations, with data coming everywhere from the school鈥檚 student management system to spreadsheets capturing national testing data. It then visualizes the data so instructors can see student progress at a glance and quickly identify areas for action.
鈥淭he biggest benefit I get as a principal is that I now have the data I need to make better decisions about what鈥檚 required for the school overall,鈥 said Chris Caldow, Principal of Penola Catholic College. 鈥淔rom the teaching perspective, instructors now have a complete understanding about each student and at what level they鈥檙e currently working at.鈥
Teachers use the platform to differentiate the instruction they deliver on a student-by-student basis. For example, an instructor might look at recent scores on an algebra unit to see if there are specific elements that students are struggling with that they might need to review with the class as a whole, or with specific students who need more help. 鈥淭he data helps us ensure there is not a gaping difference in student achievement in any specific area,鈥 Treloar said.
In addition to tracking academic achievement, Caldow said that the Education360 platform and 马来西亚牛牛玩法 have allowed the school to gain new insights into their students so they can identify potential issues sooner. 鈥淚f we see a student that has been performing really well but has a sudden drop off in grades or attendance, this indicates that there鈥檚 something going on in their life that we may not necessarily be aware of, which allows us to investigate and work with the student and their family to get it resolved.鈥濃