Predictive Analytics (PA) are increasingly used by school districts to gauge the likelihood of key student outcomes, according to TheJournal.com.

For example, school districts use PA to build early-warning indicators based on students' attendance, course failure and behavior in order to predict dropout, on-time graduation, and college and career readiness. 

"Predictive models are mostly regression-based analyses conducted to examine which student-classroom and/or school-based indicators empirically predict student outcomes," the article said.

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Article by Navindra Persaud, EducationWorld Contributor