Benefits of Big Data in Supporting Better Educational Decision Making

Big data plays an increasingly important role in education, offering great potential to improve educational decision making. Big Data collects, stores, and analyzes large amounts of and diverse data at very high speeds. In the educational context, big data collects data from various sources, including school management systems, student academic records, student satisfaction surveys, and online data. Analysis of this data can provide valuable information to decision makers in the education sector to identify relevant trends, patterns and opportunities. This research discusses the great benefits that can be gained from using Big Data in an educational context to support better decision making. Through research on the educational benefits of big data in supporting better decision making, it is hoped that this will provide an excellent opportunity to improve decision making in education. Through careful data analysis, education can become more effective, efficient and relevant to better meet the needs of students and society. The method used in this research is a quantitative method. Researchers conducted a survey using a Google form consisting of 15 statements related to the title of the research. Researchers found that using big data in education provides great opportunities to improve better educational decision making. And supported by careful selection as material for consideration. The limitation of this research is that the researcher only conducted research in schools and the researcher did not conduct research directly in schools but shared a survey link on a Google form containing a statement about the benefits of big data in supporting better educational decision making.