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.
The Ed Trust—West’s Convening, September 15, will include IEBC’s John Watson and Janine Bocciardi in a forum on A-G readiness. Read more here.
September 15 will find the IEBC Curriculum to Career Choices (CtCC) team working with the Alamo Colleges’ faculty to align student learning outcomes with career competencies. This effort is part of the Curriculum to Career Choices (CtCC) work that supports Smart Pathways of study for colleges engaged in Pathways work.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, IEBC and Educational Testing Service (ETS) led workshops addressing the integration of cultural competence issues integral to the development, implementation and assessment of student learning outcomes. Click here for information on other IEBC workshops.
Washington, DC, at the U.S. Department of Education’s 2017 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 “Sustainable Cross-Sector Reporting Systems—The All-Important Last Mile.”
Featured Publications
“Creating Data Faculty Can Use” – A Q&A with authors of book about community college data
Many colleges don’t lack for data on student performance. What to do with it is the challenge. Read this interview here.
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. This new book offers a research-based model and actionable approach for using data strategically.
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This faculty-led process is assisting community colleges in developing and implementing Guided Pathways that ensure their students are college and career ready. Read more about the need for SmartPathways and how they work.
The Blog of Harvard Education Publishing. Moving the Needle on Community College Student Success by IEBC President/CEO Brad C. Phillips and Vice President Jordan Horowitz. Read it here.