What Makes Socrates Unique?

• No additional programming is needed to set up a district's system.
  
  
• Its extensive disaggregation capability for displaying relationships among multiple student characteristics, multiple educational factors, and multiple performance measures on a single report.
  
  
• The flexibility to easily customize district and school data reports.
  
  
• Extensive core report templates based on CRM's experience with hundreds of schools in answering questions related to equity, accountability, program effectiveness, annual progress, and longitudinal analysis of student progress on multiple measures for various student cohorts. 
  
  
• The DATA WEB portal allows users to access hundreds of reports and other information without having to learn the database software. The Data Web facilitates access and use by categorizing reports for different types of users--district level, school level, and program directors.   The DATA WEB provides quality control and data confidentiality.
  
  
• Unlimited user-defined variables and the ability to add new variables at any time.
  
  
• The ability to handle large volumes of data--more than 2 billion records.
  
  
• Data verification utilities that significantly expedite data cleaning.
  
  
• Data conversion utilities that address the many idiosyncrasies of school and district information systems.
  
  
• Technical staff who have extensive experience working with school and district data files.
  
  
• Professional staff with education backgrounds and extensive experience working with local decision makers on analyzing and using data.
  
  
• Multiple options for operating the system--all services outsourced (ASP arrangement), all services (except hosting the DATA WEB) in-house, or a combination. The arrangements can change over time.