Informing Decisions • Improving Practice • Increasing Student Success
Value We Provide
We provide value in these key ways.
- You – will have valuable information to use as a foundation for decision making.
- Stakeholders – will have access to easy-to-use tools that make information relevant and facilitate informed decisions.
- Faculty – will be empowered with new insights that strengthen teaching and learning.
- Students – will have support, focus and direction, leading to greater success.
What We Do
We connect evidence-based data with education stakeholders — students, faculty, administrators, policymakers, funders, and others — to support academic success and measurable improvements in education for all students. We focus on these three key areas:
- Data Use – Understanding data and using it to help students succeed.
- College Readiness and Success – Collaborating to analyze data, seek appropriate solutions and implement them well.
- Analytics/Research – IEBC systems capture and produce information that is useful, useable and actionable.
Who We Are
IEBC is a nationally-recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to helping education stakeholders — K-12 school systems, community colleges, universities, employers and others — use evidence-based data and collaboration to make informed decisions and craft solutions that improve practice and dramatically increase student success.
Our knowledgeable and personable team includes a wide range of respected leaders, researchers, analysts, academicians, and consultants with advanced degrees in valuable disciplines.
What’s Happening
Welcome! We hope you find our website interesting and useful and return often.
Participating, presenting, listening and always learning more, IEBC is around the country.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas August 21 and 22, Institute for Evidence-Based Change and Educational Testing Service (ETS) will be leading a series of workshops addressing the integration of cultural competence issues integral to the development, implementation and assessment of student learning outcomes at the university.
In Washington, DC, running after data was the theme at the U.S. Department of Education’s 2017 National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) STATS-DC Data Conference. IEBC’s John Watson and Mary Kay Patton were joined by Anita Huang, Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education and Tim Norris, Washington Education Research and Data Center to present a session on on “Sustainable Cross-Sector Reporting Systems—The All-Important Last Mile.”
In Little Rock, Arkansas, Brad Phillips facilitated workshops at the Achieving the Dream’s Working Students Success Network on Telling Your Story with Data and Leading/Lagging Indicators. Click here for more information on these and other IEBC workshops.
At the APLU conference in San Diego, California, discussions around the Innovation and Economic Prosperity (IEP) designation process were a focus. John Watson, IEBC director of information technology and analytics, participated in conversations around longitudinal metrics, research questions and the challenges of incorporating unstructured data into a database.
Featured Publications
Vision for Success In this frank report, California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley and the Board of Governors lay out a strategic vision. Its goals and commitments make it clear: the focus on getting every student to his or her defined objective.
“…too few students are making it through college and achieving their dreams. Our Vision for Success provides an honest look at our performance as a system, both where we are excelling and where we are falling short, while setting out very clear goals for improvement.” — Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley.
“One in five Americans attending a community college are enrolled in a California community college, which makes it imperative that we remain innovative and always put students first. We can do better, we must do better.” — Board of Governors President Cecilia V. Estolano.
“IEBC recommends this impressive report and its highlighting of the challenges. We look forward to supporting this work at all levels.” — IEBC President Brad Phillips. Read more about the Vision for Success.
Read this excellent commentary “Now for the hard part: translating new vision for community colleges into student success.” Read Now for the Hard Part.
Now available – A new book from Harvard Education Press: Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges: A New Model for Educators by Brad C. Phillips and Jordan E. Horowitz
Check it out at Harvard Education Press.