Wisely applied statistical analysis can improve educational strategy! Strat S.P.A.’s suite of Educational Value Added © products – including District Value Added (DVA), Instructional Value Added (IVA) and Funding Value Added (FVA) — are designed to reveal how districts are doing relative to their socio-economic expectations and identify where instructional and district resources can make the most difference! Strat S.P.A. also provides the following services

• Statistical & Mathematical Analysis – hypothesis testing, regression analysis, ANOVA, Integer Linear Programming
• Strategic Planning – conceptualization, design, writing, implementation
• Facilitation – offsites, staff and board retreats
• Analytic Decision Support – valuations, decision trees, game theory, simulations
• Presentation development

Products

Educational Value Added (EVA)© – is a suite of standard analytic products for school districts that provide useful benchmarks to educators making policy and resource allocation decisions

District Value Added (DVA)© – is a measurement of district or school performance with the distorting effects of wealth removed.

Funding Productivity Value Added (FPVA) © – is a measurement of district or school productivity, specifically, how much performance is a funding $ producing?

Instructional Value Added (IVA) © – is a strategy for assigning students to class-rooms based on the comparative advantage of both students and instructors