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Performance Management for Educational Institutions

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Performance Management

Salient's Performance Management technology is a radical advance in performance

management for Educators. Radical because it brings together any amount of data from

any source in order to produce a coherent view of education. Radical because it produces

inarguable information. Radical because it changes the way people think, decide, and educate.

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Salient Education - Financial Performance

- Student Success

- Policies & Best Practices

The Salient approach is to enable executives, administrators, professors, teachers, advisors and others to use information interactively and independently, to see with greater speed and in greater depth where, when and on whom investments are having measurable effect and how costs can be reduced without affecting quality of service. Decision-makers can act timelier, repeat practices and investments that work and eliminate those that don’t.

To achieve this end, Salient offers technology that enables non-technical knowledge workers to use intelligence within the context of their everyday responsibilities without need of expert resources. They can inquire easily and dynamically, according to needs of the moment, evaluate history and progress against plans down to fine details, and then act in time to affect outcomes. With all data refreshed each day, it becomes both possible and practical to closely monitor the effects of change, however small. The end point is much more precise control over allocations of financial and human resources.

Create an organized source of performance information:

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Salient Streamlines Implementation

2. Precisely Measure Value Add

Immediately drill down into data sets and metrics. No support or waiting necessary.

1. Connect

Reach into existing systems to leverage data. No IT changes required.

3. Make Information Actionable

Take immediate, fact-based action. Guesswork no longer required.

Financial PerformanceDistrict PerformanceDemographic IntelligencePoliciesSchool Performance & AccountabilityStudent InterventionsBenchmarkingExtra-Curricular ActivitiesTransportation

Food ServiceFacilities ManagementGoals & AchievementBudgetsEnrollments, Graduations, & TransfersSpecial ProgramsStandardized TestingProficiency

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Salient Education – K-12

“A child miseducated is a child lost.”

- John F. Kennedy

K-12Meeting the Challenges of Primary and Secondary Education

Salient EducationSalient pulls together every aspect of K-12 education to provide a real picture of both financial and academic performance, for an entire school or district all the way down to an individual student. Instant graphical views show performance indicators by any perspective, quickly revealing: Where?, When?, Who?, and How Much?

Teachers, counselors, and administrators can easily see what is going on and take action in time to make a difference.

The Salient system delivers clear and timely feedback.

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StudentsSuccess Risk Home Life Extracurricular Activities Attendance Patterns Student Characteristics Test Scores Curriculum

Financial PerformanceCohort Studies Special Education Costs Curriculum Costs Operational CostsHR CostsAdministrative Technology Muni-/State/Federal Revenue Support

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Academic PerformanceMeasure academic performance from highest levels down to individual performers—school performance, curriculum performance, teachers’ performance and student progress.

Academic Status

How many students are in good standing? How many are at risk?

See how numbers have changed since last semester or any other time. Instantly list students and drill in for a closer look at course load, financial information, grades, etc.

1. Select any categories to see totals. Approximately 26% of students are in some type of academic trouble, while 73% of students are in good standing or better.

2. Examine any group of students. Last semester, 287 students received academic warnings. A cohort study can be performed in seconds to focus on those students.

3. Did academic performance improve? Of those 287 students who received the academic warnings, 95 are now in good standing.

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It is essential to know what is being invested and how it affects each student.



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How effective are remedial courses at bringing students up to speed?

Basic Writing Skills is a remedial course designed to

prepare students for Academic Writing 1.

1. In the Fall semester, 250 students took Basic Writing Skills. Did it help those students?

2. Non-technical users can easily select criteria for cohort analyses. This study examines students who took Basic Writing Skills in the Fall.

3. What happened next semester? Of the 250 students, 121 enrolled in Academic Writing 1, and received an average grade of 1.2. A quick comparison with the original view shows that the average grade for these students is lower than the overall grade for Academic Writing 1. Fifty-eight students retook Basic Writing Skills, and the remaining students didn't take any English course.

Course Effectiveness

Academic Performance (continued)



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Correlate discipline incidents and absences with GPA.

A Scattergram shows number of discipline incidents and GPA for each student.

1. Easily spot areas of concern. For example, some students had more than 10 discipline incidents during a single semester.

2. View any two measures. Here we'll switch to a view of GPA versus absences.

3. Students with more absences had lower grades. Highlighting shows user-defined ranges of data. Here at-risk students (GPA lower than 2.0) appear in red.

4. Easily create actionable lists. These 175 students were absent more than 5 times and have a GPA of less than 2.0.

Effect of Absences and Discipline Incidents on GPA

“Ask Why Five Times.”– W.E. Deming

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Academic Performance (continued)

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1. A comparative view shows GPA for each of several math courses for students who received tutoring.

Tutoring benefits students taking some courses more than other courses. But which?

Compare results for groups of students who did and did not receive tutoring.

2. Switch to a different cohort to view GPA by course for students without any tutoring.

3. For some courses, students who received tutoring performed better than students without any tutoring. For example, tutoring appeared to help the students taking Arithmetic (GPA of 2.2 versus 1.9).

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Student Attendance and ActivitiesAcademic performance is closely tied with attendance, as well as involvement in extracurricular activities. Salient Education easily tracks these metrics for improved initiatives and success.

Immediately spot students with poor attendance rates before academic performance is affected.

1. An exception test identifies students who have been absent more than 5 times this semester. The criteria are completely customizable.

2. A graph shows the percentage of students in each category who were absent more than 5 times this semester. The blue portion of the bars represents the students with several absences. Over 10% of students with academic warnings were absent more than 5 times.

3. List those students. Contact information is available for immediate action.

Reducing Absences

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Correlate student participation in activities with academic performance.

A Scattergram shows GPA and number of extracurricular

activities for each student.

1. Spot trends in academic performance associated with extracurricular activities. This view indicates that students enrolled in one or more extracurricular activities have a higher GPA.

2. Create lists of the students with no extracurricular activities and the students with at least one extracurricular activity.

3. A comparison of these two groups shows that the average GPA for students enrolled in extracurricular activities is higher (3.1 versus 2.4).

Extracurricular Activities and Academic Performance

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Demographic IntelligenceIncorporate census data and family information: age, income, employment, language, ethnicity, etc. Instantly see trends and areas of concern.

Track information about parents siblings, income, and more, for a more complete view of each student. Roll up results to see trends.

For example, how does parents' marital status affect GPA?

1. A graph shows changes in the number of students with married parents, single parents, divorced parents, etc. over time.

2. View any measure. Here we'll switch to a view of GPA for each category.

3. A look at GPA over time reveals a correlation between parents' marital status and GPA. Average GPA has improved for students with married parents (dark blue line), while average GPA has declined for separated, remarried, and divorced groups (green, yellow, and light blue lines).

Family Information

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Financial PerformanceSalient Education continuously monitors revenues and costs to ensure a financially sound institution. Integration of data from any source—academics, facilities, funding, HR, etc.—allows a true picture of investments and results. Understand how much each entity costs and what it's worth. The results allow better decision making and planning.

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View financial performance by source of funding, expense category, or any other way.

Drill into any area to see historical performance or line

item details.

1. Examine changes in spending by category. Health Insurance Premiums are up since the same time last year.

2. Trend expenses over time. Turn on graph smoothing to minimize distracting fluctuations. Overall, expenses for Health Insurance Premiums have increased over time.

Expense Investigation



Bringing It All TogetherSalient Performance Management brings together data from every available system for a complete picture of the factors affecting efficiency and performance.

This value scoring and mining technology presents a comprehensive activity based measurement and knowledge transfer capability for educators seeking to monitor and improve performance over the entire institution, and for every student within it.

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FinancialSystems

Budgets

Reporting & Analysis

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* Salient's UXT technology has more than 35,000 users in over 50 countries.


Improving Education Across the BoardDecisions from all departments and levels of management affect student success and financial performance.

Salient Education measures investments and results across and throughout the education system, and delivers these measures on demand and in time to support continuous improvement of educational processes and decision-making. Whether you are an administrator with interests and responsibilities across thousands of students and staff, a teacher with specific interests in a small group of students, or an employee interested in operational efficiency, Salient delivers intelligence and the motivation for action.

Across all departments

Facilities– Maintenance & Repairs– Technology– Utility Costs & Planning

Transportation– Fuel– Routing– Vehicle Management

Advisors– Family Information– History– Courses– Academic Status

Teachers– Grades, Academic Progress– Standardized Testing– Curriculum– Student Information

Food Service– Food Costs– Service Costs– Regulations

– Post-Graduation Plans– GPA– Interventions

Executive/AdministratorsEnterprise View of:

– Grades– Performance vs. Standards– Rates of Graduation– Teacher Performance

– Drop-Outs, Disciplinary Action, etc.– Demographics– Operational Costs


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“Value added is getting back greater return for the same or lesser investment. It is the penny saved by using less, going faster or repeating less often. It is the expansion of potential in spite of constraint.”– Guy Amisano

Founder and CEO, Salient Corporation


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Performance Management