Increasingly, universities are collecting and analyzing student data for a variety of purposes. At the University of Arizona, for example, a researcher analyzed the swipes of student ID cards at ...

Student data are used to explore trends and/or satisfaction in two distinct ways- aggregate reporting and activity assessment. Aggregate reporting is used to assess trends in engagement and attendance ...

Prospective student profiles include test scores, online browsing histories, household income, ethnic and racial information, and other sensitive data.

For example, let’s consider the student data management system PowerSchool to illustrate the difficulty in maintaining student privacy when there is leadership or ownership turnover.

That is an example of the type of dilemma researchers from more than a dozen colleges and universities debated earlier this month as they made progress toward developing a set of shared standards for ...

Many teachers believe that analyzing student assessment data can improve performance, but the research suggests otherwise, writes Heather C. Hill.