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As a developer at Uplift Education, I support and build tools for over 800 teachers who are located in over 17 schools spread across the Dallas Fort Worth region. I am passionate about product development and I wanted to share some advice on how to quickly iterate in an educational settings when developing a product. […]
Read MoreSo, I bet you are reading this expecting how to create an ideal testing environment in an educational setting. Unfortunately, this article will not be able to share that information, and I am not sure if it is possible. There is a lot going on in a school and setting up an ideal testing time […]
Read MoreLike in all career fields, educators vary in computing knowledge and skills. Working at Uplift, I have had the wonderful opportunity to work with educators in order to produce data-driven dashboards. In the next couple of months, I will highlight lessons learned in addition to sharing resources surrounding research and my experiences in developing data-driven […]
Read MoreAs part of their assessment and curriculum review, our curriculum team wanted to know the most commonly selected wrong answer for each question on our district assessments. This data allows them to identify questions that may be unclear or common misconceptions that need to be addressed in the classroom. The DENSE_RANK function makes this task easy. I specifically […]
Read MoreThis series is dedicated to all the 3-in-1 Analyst / DBA / SQL Developers working in school districts. Much respect. Results from the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) for 5th and 8th Grade Reading arrived last week. Our team receives a fixed-width file containing data from multiple tests combined into one record per student. […]
Read MoreOn the Data Analytics Team (DAT), we put data to work for teachers and school leaders at Uplift Education’s network of charter schools. We make sense of information, train staff, and develop tools to help teachers and school leaders do their thing.* *’do their thing’ = ‘Battle entrenched social forces to make college possible for […]
Read MoreWe recently provided our teachers with a simple view showing student scores by learning standard, or TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills), across multiple assessments. The TEKS are further categorized according to their STAAR reporting category and type and MAP Goal Area. Using the data as an input, teachers can target and prioritize skills for […]
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