Why Choose SP SnapShot™

Make better decisions with better data analysis - here's what SP SnapShot™ 2.0 can do for you.

Look up NCLB and AYP Measurements Quickly

• Gain a visual representation of student demographic categories which directly relate to many of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) initiatives
• Query students according to NCLB criteria
• Identify students that haven't met the requirements for AYP
• Make efficient and effective decisions concerning professional development, funding applications and students’ real education needs by isolating student subgroups according to NCLB criteria

Target Professional Development Resources Effectively

• Concentrate professional development funds on appropriate areas by determining teachers’ strengths and weaknesses
• Enable teachers to evaluate their own performance and prepare personal professional development plans
• Plan school improvement based on quantitative analysis with at-a-glance information
• Improve classroom instruction by providing teachers with feedback on instructional strengths and weaknesses with reference to subtest data

Create Useful Reports Quickly

• Identify the percentage of students who have made learning gains and increased proficiency through the creation of status and trend reports
• Illustrate your school’s performance and needs using a variety of graphs
• Measure student achievement improvement in state indicated subjects
• Use information and graphs for local, state and federal reporting
• Inspect trends over time by demographic and grade
• Easily view learning gains by teacher and by grade

Target Student Learning Needs Easily

• Identify the percentage of students, and students in subgroups, who are proficient in reading and math, for comparison with the state’s annual objectives
• Quickly pinpoint students who are performing at less than expectations or who have failed to make adequate yearly progress
• Produce reading and math learning gains summaries
• Compare your students’ FCAT scores in math and reading and quickly assess student growth

Drill Down to the Student Level

• Calculate the percentage of students, and students within subgroups, who participated in the state assessment program
• Identify struggling students, identify their strengths and weaknesses and develop effective individual student learning plans
• Calculate learning gains for individual students, classes, and grade levels

Effect Change in the Classroom

• Improve student performance by identifying individual students in need of specific attention
• Create and implement student learning plans quickly and easily
• Generate reports that show performance trends over the years for different student subgroups including reports grouped by grade and student demographic
• Plan class improvement based on quantitative analysis with at-a-glance information

Implementation of SP SnapShot™ is quick and easy. SP SnapShot™ works directly with your Management Information System (MIS) department and tech specialists to import your data. Once the student data is imported, educators will be able to turn student performance data into information they can use within three mouse clicks.

Use data-driven decision-making techniques not only to analyze test scores and student achievement, but also to:

• Narrow achievement gaps between student subgroups
• Improve teacher quality
• Improve curriculum
• Share best practices among schools and districts
• Communicate education issues more effectively with key stakeholders
• Promote parental involvement in the education process
• Increase dialogue within the educational community

District Administrators

The Challenge

Most states are demanding more accountability from their districts and are tying funding to results. As a District Administrator, you need quick and accurate access to your district's school data to help address needs and concerns, as well as to be able to analyze results from district-wide initiatives.

The Solution

SP SnapShot™ provides the ability to get the information you need quickly to make the right decisions. Within a few clicks, you have information relevant to Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) criteria. This information can be printed and used in reports to create effective funding applications or respond to the immediate educational needs of your students.

School Administrators

The Challenge

As states demand more from their District Administrators, school leaders are being required to oversee school accountability requirements along with ensuring that students are making appropriate learning gains. This also means that identifying and supplying teachers and staff with appropriate, area-specific professional development is increasingly important.

The Solution

SP SnapShot™ gives school leaders and administrators access to student data in convenient, printable bar and scatterplot graphs, within three clicks. You can use SP SnapShot™ to effectively place students in classes and identify resources that are needed. Using the bar and scatterplot graphs available, you can plan areas of staff professional development, classroom improvement, and school improvement plans.

Teachers

The Challenge

Today's teachers are being asked to spend more of their limited time on administrative tasks and responding to requests from parents and school administrators, then are kept busy with the day-to-day running of their classroom. At the same time, they must devise curriculum solutions that will show the positive results demanded by parent, their school administrators and their district. With such demands on their time, they require the ability to readily access the necessary information and perform many tasks from home.

The Solution

SP SnapShot™ is able to give teachers the gift of time by providing instant access to their students' data. They have access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to powerful analysis tools such as bar and scatterplot graphs and custom queries. There is no need to learn new software or perform complicated installs. They can access SP SnapShot™ from any computer with Internet access giving them the option to work from wherever they are, at anytime. This enables them to print graphs and share student data with colleagues, thus identifying students who need extra attention. SP SnapShot™ allows teachers to work effectively with parents in preparing individualized student education plans.

MIS Personnel

The Challenge

There is an increasing demand on the time of MIS personnel to produce customized data extractions and reports, as educators begin to use data analysis on a daily basis. MIS personnel need a tool that lessens these daily tasks by performing some of the simpler data-gathering jobs for them and for the schools they support.

The Solution

Once a district’s data has been loaded, SP SnapShot™:

• Allows MIS, educators and administrators to access student performance data relevant to their unique needs, from anywhere with Internet access
• Enables users to create customized reports summarizing achievement and showing trends amongst student subgroups, and allows MIS to themselves use the customized report and display functions to provide information to the schools they serve
• Allows MIS, educators and administrators to create customized graphic analysis
• Provides an online demonstration and other free familiarization resources that show the user how to gather data and produce their own queries and reports

All this can be achieved by spending a few hours a year providing data to SP SnapShot™. Both MIS and educators are empowered with a tool that allows them to free up time by creating these reports simply and quickly.

SP SnapShot™ also provides free support for MIS personnel that need assistance with putting their files together. Get the free online demonstration of SP SnapShot™.