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
This weekend, one of the Professional Development Workshops at the Claremont Evaluation Center (CEC) will be presented at Claremont Graduate University by IEBC’s Brad Phillips and Jordan Horowitz . The CEC provides world-class practical and theoretical training in evaluation and applied research. For more information on the workshops and the Phillips/Horowitz topic “Increasing the Usefulness of Formative Evaluation: Integrating Leading and Lagging Indicators,” check out the full program.
Michael Scriven notes that formative evaluations help to form programs. However, the findings from formative evaluations often examine metrics that are not actionable by program administrators and staff. These evaluations focus on lagging indicators: the big program impact outcomes such as graduation rates in education or recidivism rates in mental health. These indicators are mostly out of the control of the program being evaluated as they cannot be directly influenced—they are measured on the target population upon completion.
Bright Spots faculty and staff are changing student lives with intentional impactful interventions. Read more.
Continuous Improvement Continuously – Check out what’s available, including key tasks for partnership projects aiming to achieve their goals.
Don’t Miss This Newsletter: The IEBC Investment in Your Success; Guided Pathways – Struggling With The Fourth Pillar?; Five Top Lessons About Using Data to Drive Decisions and more…
Featured Publications
Finding it hard to go ‘All In’? Read “The Problems and Promise of Bringing Educational Interventions to Scale” by Brad Phillips in Medium.
Cuyamaca College turned to evaluation research to maximize its Guided Pathways outcomes under its five-year HSI STEM grant. Read more to find out how Cuyamaca’s experience pinpointed positive outcomes during the STEM Summer Boot Camp enabling action to be taken during the program rather than waiting for the next session.
When transcript typos stand in the way of college In a commentary in EdSource, IEBC Senior Director of IT and Analytics John Watson sheds light on an interrupted pathway.
Creating A Data-Informed Culture In Community Colleges, published by Harvard Education Press. Read what others are saying about the book, and preview the first chapter “If You Build Good Systems, the Answers Will Come… Right?”
IEBC workshops are in high demand. See what makes most sense for you. Book yours for fall while there is still room. Find out more in Student Success and Data Use.