1. Enabling Public Use of Education Data with EdExplorer A Visualization Odyssey 2012 MIS Conference

2. Agenda 1. Introductions 2. Background 3. Front Page 4. Performance Explorer 5. School Finder 6. Institution Profile 7. Future Plans 8. Demo and Questions

3. Introductions  Josh Klein, Chief Information Officer  Brett Luelling, Director of Application Development  With the Oregon Department of Education (ODE)

4. Background, The Beginnings  Colorado’s visualization  Increased visualization for public consumption  Balancing needs of researchers and general public

5. Background, Tool Selection  Cross functional team for evaluation  Several months were spent evaluating tools  Collaboration with Dundas and Microsoft  Examined other organizations' solutions  NAEP  Colorado  Arkansas

6. Front Page  Redesign project was started in the Spring of 2010  Goal was to reduce the number of clicks to critical pieces of information  Integrate new technologies and modernize the look and feel  New Front Page was released in November of 2010

7. Front Page, Cont.  Old Front Page

8. Front Page, Cont.  New front page takes advantage of rotators  Using the Telerik Web toolkit  Presents news and school/district performance information  Uses roles to tailor the items presented

9. Front Page, Cont.

10.  New Search  Based on Microsoft Sharepoint Search Express  The search crawls our website hourly for new links/content  Uses a combination of weighting and link popularity to elevate search results  Nightly categorization updating and optimization for following day

11. Front Page, Cont.

12. Performance Explorer  In 2005, the original Public Assessment Group Reports application was released.  Allowed the public to view the statewide assessment results by district, school, and various subgroups by subject.

13. Performance Explorer, Cont.  Old Assessment Results Application

14. Performance Explorer, Cont.  Project began in the Spring of 2010  Goal was to provide charts that would help the public understand the statewide assessment results  Released in March of 2011

15. Performance Explorer, Cont.  Application uses:  Infragistics map control  Silverlight  Dundas charts  OLAP Cube

16. Performance Explorer, Cont.  Link to EdExplore

17. Performance Explorer, Cont.  School District Map

18. Performance Explorer, Cont.  Fast and easy way to get information by ESD

19. Performance Explorer, Cont.  Allows for aggregation by County

20. Performance Explorer, Cont.  Filters are fast and easy  Data updates as filters are chosen  Filters may change when a different chart is selected

21. Performance Explorer, Cont.  Easy to switch from viewing data by chart or by a data grid  Export capability of the selected chart or both the data grid and chart

22. Performance Explorer, Cont.  Charts  Performance Detail by Selected Subgroup  Performance Summary by Selected Subgroup  Mean Score and Standard Deviation  Performance Trend

23. Performance Explorer, Cont.  Performance Detail by Subgroup

24. Performance Explorer, Cont.  Performance Summary by Subgroup

25. Performance Explorer, Cont.  Mean Score and Standard Deviation

26. Performance Explorer, Cont.  Performance Trend

27. Performance Explorer, Cont.  PDF and CSV Export

28. Performance Explorer, Lessons  Silverlight adoption was not as widespread as hoped  Challenges with mobile devices  OLAP Cubes provide quick access to aggregate data  Allows for Business Intelligence tools  Creates challenges in providing Quality Assurance of the data  Cultural shift for both customers and IT staff

29. School Finder  Developed in conjunction with the Performance Explorer  Released in March of 2011  Allows the public to search an address and find the school district and surrounding schools  Uses Bing maps

30. School Finder, Cont.  Uses Bing Maps

31. School Finder, Cont.  Infragistics map controls  Search features, and map navigation, are located on the left

32. School Finder, Cont.  District highlighted in yellow  Entered address is yellow diamond  Surrounding schools are red diamonds

33. School Finder, Lessons  GIS layer is not maintained by our office, which creates challenges  School District boundaries on the layer are drawn with “fat markers”

34. Institution Profile  1990 Measure 5 passed  Shifted funding for public education from local property tax to the state (equivalent to 70% of school funding).  1997 HB3636 passed in the Legislature  Directed ODE to produce expenditure data for Schools and Districts, and to make the data publicly available.  The Database Initiative (DBI) was born.

35. Institution Profile, Cont.  DBI was piloted with 16 Districts in September of 1997.  In 1999, ODE began a Statewide rollout.

36. Institution Profile, Cont.  DBI allows for filter selection

37. Institution Profile, Cont.  Example of the 2011-12, October 1 st Enrollment by Ethnicity

38. Institution Profile, Cont.  Statewide data can be downloaded into CSV

39. Institution Profile, Cont.  Institution Profile Project began in 2011 to replace the DBI reports  Goal was to provide a visualization rich tool for the public  Allows for District/School Comparison  Will be released soon

40. Institution Profile, Cont.  Select two Districts/Schools to compare

41. Institution Profile, Cont.  Provides a range of data using tab display, grids, and charts

42. Institution Profile, Cont.  Free and Reduced Lunch

43. Institution Profile, Cont.  Spending per Student

44. Institution Profile, Cont.  October 1 Enrollment

45. Institution Profile, Cont.  PDF and CSV Export

46. Institution Profile, Cont.  Pivot control provides ad hoc queries

47. Future Plans  ODE API  Student, Teacher, and Course Identifier provisioning Web services  Data from Institution Profile available via Web service

48. Future Plans  Front Page  Implementation of Microsoft Sharepoint Fast Search  Continued streamlining of sub pages off front page  Implementation of Microsoft Sharepoint for Web Content Management

49. Future Plans  Performance Explorer  Discipline Charts (coming in March)  English Language Proficiency Assessment Charts  Additional core subject charts  Career Technical Education Charts

50. Future Plans  Institution Profile  Additional accountability measures (items from the School and District Report Card)

51. Future Plans  Mobile Development  Building a new Migrant Student Information System utilizing Android tablets  Using MonoDroid to allow for development in C# on Android

52. Questions?  Josh Klein (josh.klein@state.or.us)josh.klein@state.or.us  Brett Luelling (brett.luelling@state.or.us)brett.luelling@state.or.us  www.ode.state.or.us  www.EducationDataExplorer.com