Parent in Military Students Dynamic Public Cohort: WISEdash for Districts

Purpose of Viewing Dynamic Cohorts, Overview

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In general, all cohorts provide a great opportunity to follow a selected group of students’ data longitudinally and perform data analysis, disaggregation, and inquiry.

DPI can create public dynamic cohorts more easily than it can create filter options for each dashboard. As such, it provides a win-win result of DPI being able to provide tools to narrow the scope of dashboard data, and LEAs being able to use this tool quickly and with ease.

We hope school districts continue to look for ways to improve student outcomes. Allowing the flexibility to filter and disaggregate data in a new way allows users to look at their data from a different perspective in order to find issues and opportunities.

Parent in Military Students Cohort:

Definition of Parent in Military Cohort: This cohort refers to a student characteristic indicating that a student has a parent or guardian who is a member of the armed forces on active duty, serves full-time National Guard duty, or is a traditional member of the National Guard or Reserve.

Purpose of Using Parent in Military Cohort: This cohort allows users to find data on performance indicators for students with parents in the military, allowing for disaggregation and further analysis.

Best times of year to view this cohort data: Parent in Military data does appear in December snapshot, but this cohort group is not intended to be used to data quality auditing.

Rather, use the cohort data to identify problems anytime an LEA needs to analyze any data specific to these sets of students.

For example, schools could use this cohort group to determine what effects Parent in Military status has on Forward test results.
- If there is a correlation, is the student performance better, the same or worse than non-Parent in Military status students?
- If a problem is identified, why is that and how does the LEA alleviate this?
- How will the LEA process that information to affect educational equity and policies in schools?

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FAQs, Details, and Points to Note

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