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.
Have you seen our latest newsletter? Read it here.
Heroes for Hire college programs are underway in West Virginia at three Community and Technical Colleges – Mountain West, Blue Ridge and Southern West Virginia. IEBC is providing support and assistance, beginning with workshops this month to guide their use of data in supporting these very important college programs for our veterans. Phillips’ article in Forbes magazine a few years ago still resonates today.
Check out this webinar: Focus on What Matters: It’s Better to Lead than Lag, now available for your viewing and sharing. At ZogoTech’s invitation, IEBC president Brad Phillips led this webinar. Also available for your reading: “Why it is Better to Lead Than Lag: Leading and Lagging Indicators for Education” in IO Education.
The Curriculum to Career Choices (CtCC) with SmartPathways webinar covered the pathway to ensuring that academic learning experiences actually align to employer expectations. Read more.
Featured Publications
The Chronicle of Higher Education Special Report on The Digital Campus, looks at the promise — and the limits — of big data. Colleges want to use it to better track students and help them succeed, to find out what works in the classroom, and more. The report includes Big Data Alone Won’t Help Students by IEBC President Brad Phillips and Vice President Jordan E. Horowitz pointing out that the information that comes out of big-data systems must be usable, useful, and actionable by educators who know how to make sense of it.
IEBC workshops are in high demand, particularly workshops on on Leading and Lagging Indicators, Telling Your Story with Data, and How to Integrate Data into a Meeting. The Chronicle of Higher Education Special Report. Read Why it is Better to Lead Than Lag: Leading and Lagging Indicators for Education.
Telling Your Story with Data is one of a number of customized workshops that IEBC provides as part of its data use support to schools, districts, colleges, universities, state departments of education and others. Click here for more information on specific data use workshops.