Get answers to your most important questions about student performance.
Get answers to your most important questions about student performance.
Otus helps you make informed decisions to ensure student growth and equity.
Make Your Decisions with Confidence
Otus helps answer your questions by providing one place to visualize all student data, so you have clear insights and can confidently make decisions for your district.
Understand student performance based upon your assessments
Understand the growth trajectory of different student groups
Understand the progress towards equitable practices
Discover how Otus helps answer these questions and more below.
Student Growth and Performance
What is the trend in reading and math performance over the last 3 years?
This question will enable you to assess educational progress over time, identify areas of improvement, and inform policy decisions to ensure students receive the best possible education. With Otus, you never have to worry about handling spreadsheets of student data. We partner with iReady, NWEA, Renaissance, and more so that student data is sent directly to Otus after an assessment – making this question and others easy to answer in real-time.
Which students are not progressing toward college and career readiness?
Asking this question will help you to identify students who need targeted interventions to address achievement gaps and provide equal opportunities for future success. If your data reveals a population of students who need additional support, educators can add them to personalized college and career readiness plans right in Otus so every student gets what they need to be successful.
Related Posts/Further Reading
Creating a Portrait of a Graduate: New Measures of College, Career, and Life Readiness
Identifying Student Progress Towards College and Career Readiness: The Power of Early Indicators
Growth Trajectory of Diverse Learners
Are there differences in student achievement based on socioeconomic status?
This question will help you to understand if there are educational inequalities that require the development of targeted interventions to ensure all students equal opportunities for success. With Otus, you can flexibly group students to answer this question and analyze the performance of students from lower-income households. If the data reveals an achievement gap, educators can add students to personalized learning plans to accelerate their growth.
Related Posts/Further Reading
Research-Backed Practices to Impact Students’ Academic and Social-Emotional Growth
Understanding Socioeconomic Impact on Student Achievement: Bridging the Gap
Are students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) as college- and career-ready as those without IEPs?
This question will help you to assess whether students with disabilities have the same level of college and career readiness as their peers so they have equal opportunities when they transition to post-secondary education and employment. With Otus, you can flexibly group students by identified disability, 504 plan, and more to determine if there are gaps in future readiness. If the data reveals that a given population of students needs additional support, educators can add them to a college-and-career-readiness plan to track progress.
Related Posts/Further Reading
Creating a Portrait of a Graduate: New Measures of College, Career, and Life Readiness
Promoting Educational Equity: Assessing College and Career Readiness for Students with IEPs
Are my students who are receiving reading intervention beginning to close the gap with their peers?
This question will help you to gauge whether students receiving reading intervention are making progress and narrowing the achievement gap compared to their peers. If the data reveals that the interventions in place are not making an impact on growth, the team has the opportunity to intervene and adjust supports.
Related Posts/Further Reading
The Power of Otus Plans featuring Chad Nichols
Evaluating Intervention Impact: Closing the Reading Gap for Struggling Students
Equitable Practices
Are discipline rates similar between English Language Learners (ELLs) and non-ELLs?
This question will help you to identify potential inequities and inform efforts to ensure fair and unbiased disciplinary practices for all students. With Otus, you can reinforce your commitment to creating a safe and respectful environment for every student by analyzing non-academic data related to behavior, attendance, SEL, and more. Analyzing this data by student groups such as ELL, race/ethnicity, or other identifiers better equips educators for conversations around necessary practice shifts.
Related Posts/Further Reading
Restorative Practices with Dr. Don Parker
Promoting Equitable Discipline: Understanding Disparities between ELLs and Non-ELLs
Are attendance rates different between my two elementary schools?
This question will help you to dissect attendance-related challenges and guide targeted interventions to improve overall student attendance and engagement. If the data reveals differences in engagement across schools, you can add students to a personalized plan that targets improved attendance rates.
Related Posts/Further Reading
Unlocking Student Potential with Dr. Don Parker
Attendance Matters: Addressing Disparities Between Schools in Your District
Are students in the dual language program performing similarly to students who are in a single language classroom?
This question will help you to inform the effectiveness of program offerings and address any potential disparities so students have equal opportunity for success. With Otus, student groups can be based on factors such as teacher, course enrollment, demographics, and more. These groups help educators to look at how cohorts of students perform over time shedding light on the success of specialized programs.
Related Posts/Further Reading
Using Data to Drive Student Placements featuring Dr. Becky Mathison
Navigating the Dual Language Landscape: Equitable Access and Student Performance
Resources
Administrators are Experiencing Success with Otus
The Ultimate Guide to Data-Driven Instruction
Otus Saves Educators Time by Keeping Everything in One Place
Watch the video to see how you can use standards-based performance data in the Otus Gradebook to group students based on need and then support using a personalized learning plan — all in one place!