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Data-Driven Decision Making: Analyzing Your Data to Improve Student Learning

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Overview This white paper describes the benefits that may be gained with data-driven decision making, as well as information and case studies on SAS onsite and hosted solutions for education, the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Suite for Education and SAS OnDemand for K-12. Using SAS' award-winning data warehousing and business analytics to integrate and analyze data sources in a flexible, easy-to-manage reporting environment, one can achieve ultimate goal of improving student achievement through the effective use of data.

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Publisher	SAS Institute	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Knowledge and Data Management, Data Mining - Analysis, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

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