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Compass For Success is a collaboration between more than 30 Canadian school boards in the province of Ontario that provides centralized data warehousing and analytics services that help schools to monitor student performance. Initially founded to help nine school boards meet the requirements of Ontario’s Managing Information for Student Achievement (MISA) initiative, Compass for Success now offers a wide range of reporting and analysis services that help to support student success across the province.

Business need:

Compass for Success was founded to help a group of school boards meet the requirements of the MISA initiative, which aims to help the Ontario Ministry of Education collect data about student achievement, and the boards themselves gain greater insight into their own operations.

Solution:

By pooling resources, Compass for Success has harnessed IBM Cognos software to build a centralized analytics platform offering more advanced capabilities than any of the individual boards could have achieved on their own.

Benefits:

Supports a culture of inquiry within the school system, enabling teachers to identify groups of students who are struggling and organize interventions to drive better academic performance. Enables more accurate monitoring of student achievement. For example, analyzing students’ report cards against their standardized test scores helps administrators understand teacher learning needs in order to improve assessment practices. Significantly reduces manual workload. For example, tracking cohorts of students is now an instant, automated process, saving at minimum two days’ work per school.

Case Study

Compass For Success is a collaboration between more than 30 Canadian school boards in the province of Ontario that provides centralized data warehousing and analytics services that help schools to monitor student performance. Initially founded to help nine school boards meet the requirements of Ontario’s Managing Information for Student...