Download or read book Statewide Longitudinal Data System written by North Dakota. Statewide Longitudinal Data System and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) stores current and historical data from K-12 education, higher education, and workforce sources giving decision makers access to readily available data to make well-informed decisions.
Download or read book Implement Improve and Expand Your Statewide Longitudinal Data System written by Jamie McQuiggan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step-by-step guidance for implementing an effective statewide longitudinal data system Every U.S. state faces challenges in its efforts to ensure the highest-quality education for students. To address these challenges, a growing number of states are establishing statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDSs), a data-rich system integrating relevant data about a student's education. Implementing Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems for Education presents a detailed and contextualized discussion of SLDSs, which will serve as a recipe for states that want to implement an SLDS, develop design and enactment of new and existing SLDS systems, addressing implementation, operation and optimization. Provides a contextualized discussion of the history and purpose of SLDSs Describes how to plan for and implement an SLDS, including best practices regarding data governance, standards and privacy Discusses proven methods of data management, and details the two most popular methods of database architectures used for SLDSs Provides 5 case studies of states successfully using SLDSs Offers suggestions for expansion and inclusion of new datasets over time This essential book addresses the culture of data concept, providing a guide for states to usher in a new era in their education system where data is invaluable and used by everyone, not simply the newest version of the old system. A robust LDS initiative includes linked student records, teacher records, test scores, course selection, finances, certifications, licensure, salary and more. Concluding with a discussion of the potential future uses of SLDS, this book is the ultimate guide to SLDS implementation and understanding.
Download or read book Statewide Longitudinal Data System SLDS Report written by Deputy Commissioner of Education and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SLDS State Longitudinal Data System written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Longitudinal Data Systems written by Elizabeth Grovenstein and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Which preschool programs best prepare students for kindergarten?" "Which students from which schools need remediation classes in higher education?" "How successful are college graduates in the workforce by major or credential?" These are just a few of the questions that can be answered by a robust longitudinal data system that enables a state to track student performance from early learning through the workforce. Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) can enhance the ability of states, districts, schools, educators and other stakeholders to efficiently and accurately manage, analyze, and use education data to make informed decisions that can improve student learning and outcomes. SLDS also facilitate research to evaluate and improve institutional and program performance. This issue of "CoNCepts" describes how SLDS are used, how North Carolina implements SLDS, and important considerations for states to ensure successful implementation and public reporting.
Download or read book Statewide Longitudinal Data System written by Connecticut. State Department of Education and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leveraging the Power of State Longitudinal Data Systems written by Data Quality Campaign and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the need to create a competitive workforce and improve the quality of our education system, states are pursuing policy agendas to better prepare students for postsecondary education and careers. To inform these agendas, statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDSs) have become an invaluable asset and serve as a tool to help states answer pressing policy questions and improve practice. In the long term, these robust data systems can enable state education agencies to create tools such as early warning systems and data dashboards, which equip educators with information to address issues including dropouts, teacher quality and college readiness. All stakeholders will benefit in a variety of ways. However, fully harnessing the power of these robust SLDSs to answer key policy questions and provide information critical to various stakeholders depends upon state education agencies' being able to: (1) Collect the data in a way that provides valid answers to a state's critical policy questions, even as these questions change over time; (2) Define accurate measures of progress; (3) Conduct appropriate analyses of the data; (4) Present and disseminate findings to stakeholders; and (5) Use the information to drive policy and practice decisions. While IT staff and resources will always be required to maintain and update the SLDSs, the power of these systems will not be evident until education analysts and researchers also engage in the full scope of system design, maintenance and use over time. [This paper was written with Ellen B. Mandinach and Nancy J. Smith.].
Download or read book Further Clarification Requested by States Around the Application of FERPA to State Longitudinal Data Systems written by Data Quality Campaign and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) provide the information and tools needed to inform policies, practices and decisions at every level to improve student achievement and system performance. It is equally important that there are policies and practices to protect personally identifiable information and to ensure the confidentiality and security of this sensitive information. Linking limited data elements from different sectors is sometimes necessary to generate actionable information that can be used to realize efficiency, assess impact, and make informed decisions about education. Based on state experiences, comments, and ongoing conversations, the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) Partners have identified the following four areas of continuing confusion: (1) Sharing between Separate P-(or K-)12 and Postsecondary Data Systems; (2) Disclosures to a Former School/LEA for Evaluation and Accountability; (3) Research Studies Initiated by State Agencies; and (4) Disclosures to Workforce and Social Service Agencies.
Download or read book Harnessing the Potential of Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems to Support College and Career Readiness Ask the CCRS Center written by Katelyn Lee and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief examines strategies for leveraging State longitudinal data systems (SLDS) to promote college and career readiness (CCR) goals. The examples provided are based on current state efforts to use their state longitudinal data systems to achieve their CCR vision and goals. The following information outlines the basic purpose and elements of SLDS and describes a set of emerging practices that serve as examples of how states use SLDS to support CCR. This information may be useful to states that are currently reexamining these efforts in light of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Although the use of SLDS to promote CCR is still in its early stages, several states have experienced success with such efforts. The emerging practices described in this brief offer ideas for how states can either develop or enhance SLDS in order to better prepare students for college and career. Given widespread federal support for SLDS, states should be well-positioned to leverage opportunities for enhancing CCR through their SLDS. [The authors acknowledge the assistance of Kate Sandel, Bob Swiggum, Brett Carter, and Jared Knowles.].
Download or read book Implementing Statewide Longitudinal Student Data Systems written by Dorothea Anagnostopoulos and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing accurate and useful information on student achievement is a rising challenge for state educational agencies. With the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2001, such challenges have become more pressing. A centerpiece of the educational accountability movement, NCLB has prompted states to improve their reporting on student outcomes. Although not mandated by the law, in recent years states have actively moved to revamp their student data systems (SDS) to better address both federal mandates and inform local stakeholders. Many states now utilize unique statewide student identifiers and seek to collect longitudinal data on students' progress throughout their K-12 educational system and beyond. To date, however, there remains considerable variation across states in quality and comprehensiveness of student data systems. How then can states successfully develop and establish their statewide longitudinal student data systems? This report provides an overview of longitudinal student data systems (LSDS) across the 50 states before focusing on cases of the creation, implementation and expansion of SDS in three states. "Emergent State" has just begun assigning unique student identifiers to state assessment data. "Accelerated State" has rapidly developed and implemented a longitudinal student data system and is moving towards including data warehousing capabilities. "Established State" has a comprehensive K-20 longitudinal student data system that includes a data warehouse. These cases illuminate the challenges and successes that state educational agencies have encountered in their efforts to develop, implement and expand LSDS. The report finds that the state education agencies faced similar challenges in the following areas: (1) building state agency capacity; (2) developing reciprocal and efficient relationships with districts and schools; (3) clarifying governance of the data system and ownership of data; and (4) garnering and sustaining state legislative support. The authors identify the variety of strategies that state education agencies employed to meet these challenges, highlighting those strategies that hold the most promise for the development of comprehensive LSDS. The authors conclude with recommendations for state education agency leaders interested in creating and expanding their states' LSDS. Appended are: (1) What do we know about the Evolution of Longitudinal Student Data Systems?; and (2) State LSDS Rankings. (Contains 3 tables and 2 footnotes. This work was supported in part by funds from the Education Policy Center at Michigan State University. ).
Download or read book En Route to Seamless Statewide Education Data Systems written by Sharmila Basu Conger and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student achievement depends upon successful passage through a series of transitions: elementary to middle school, middle school to high school, high school to college. Increasing the efficiency of successful transitions requires the collection and analysis of student data across these transition points. Yet long-standing separations between education sectors and continuing proliferation of multiple, disconnected student data systems have served as barriers to statewide tracking of student progress. Recognizing that K-12 and postsecondary data systems must be linked to answer critical questions about student preparation and achievement, many states are currently developing longitudinal data systems; their progress, documented by national studies, is encouraging. However, creating a coherent, effective and sustainable state longitudinal data system requires much more than simply establishing linkages between existing systems. Through a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, SHEEO convened a workshop, "Linking K-12 and Postsecondary Data Systems," as a forum for states to engage in peer-to-peer learning. The workshop brought together cross-sector, data-focused, leadership teams from 11 states with content experts from prominent national organizations for two days of collaborative sessions. Through workshop discussions, state teams identified five core processes which are key to successfully implementing longitudinal data initiatives: (1) Identifying shared benefits as a foundation for cooperative work across sectors; (2) Reconciling technical differences between independently created data systems; (3) Assuring student privacy while sharing data to foster improvement; (4) Designing a data system to enable effective use by key constituencies; and (5) Planning for long-term sustainability of state longitudinal data systems. The development of a statewide longitudinal data system is an enormous endeavor; breaking it down into components can help identify appropriate areas of immediate work. Drawing from the experiences shared by workshop participants--education leaders in states actively engaged in the process of creating seam-less data systems--this report addresses each of these components in turn and presents an overview of insights and strategies to address emerging, prevalent, cross-state concerns. (Contains 7 endnotes.).
Download or read book Florida Case Study written by Cherry Kugle and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Data Quality Campaign is a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers to improve the collection, availability and use of high-quality education data and to implement state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement. The campaign aims to provide tools and resources that will assist state development of quality longitudinal data systems, while also providing a national forum for reducing duplication of effort and promoting greater coordination and consensus among the organizations focusing on improving data quality, access and use. To these ends, four site visits were conducted in the spring of 2006 to state education agencies (SEAs) to gather information on their experiences in developing statewide longitudinal data systems: Florida, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin.The Florida Department of Education (FDOE) oversees 67 county-wide public school districts, encompassing almost 4,000 schools, in which over 2.6 million students were enrolled in the fall of the 2005-06 school year. Florida has a long history of collecting a multitude of data on its public education system and was one of the country's pioneers in collecting student-level data.
Download or read book A Guide to Using State Longitudinal Data for Applied Research NCEE 2015 4013 written by Karen Levesque and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State longitudinal data systems (SLDSs) promise a rich source of data for education research. SLDSs contain statewide student data that can be linked over time and to additional data sources for education management, reporting, improvement, and research, and ultimately for informing education policy and practice. Authored by Karen Levesque, Robert Fitzgerald, and Joy Pfeiffer of RTI International, this guide is intended for researchers who are familiar with research methods, but who are new to using SLDS data, are considering conducting SLDS research in a new state environment, or are expanding into new topic areas that can be explored using SLDS data. The guide also may be useful for state staff as background for interacting with researchers and may help state staff and researchers communicate across their two cultures. It highlights the opportunities and constraints that researchers may encounter in using state longitudinal data systems and offers approaches to addressing some common problems. The following are appended: (1) Sample High School Feedback Reports; (2) Characteristics of statewide student data systems, by state: 2009-2010; (3) The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act--guidance for reasonable methods and written agreements; and (4) Additional questions for confirming specific data availability.
Download or read book Virginia Case Study written by Cherry Kugle and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Data Quality Campaign is a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers to improve the collection, availability and use of high-quality education data and to implement state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement. The campaign aims to provide tools and resources that will assist state development of quality longitudinal data systems, while also providing a national forum for reducing duplication of effort and promoting greater coordination and consensus among the organizations focusing on improving data quality, access and use. To these ends, four site visits were conducted in the spring of 2006 to state education agencies (SEAs) to gather information on their experiences in developing statewide longitudinal data systems: Florida, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin. The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE), featured in this report, oversees 132 public school districts (divisions) in which over 1.2 million students were enrolled in the 2005-06 school year. Public school students in Virginia participate in the largest on-line assessment program in the country. Under the umbrella name of Education Information Management System (EIMS), the VDOE has set priorities to meet state and federal reporting requirements and enable stakeholders at all levels of education to make informed educational decisions based on accurate and timely information. Recommendations for future development are included.
Download or read book Creating Reports Using Longitudinal Data written by Data Quality Campaign and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that all 50 states and the District of Columbia are building statewide longitudinal data systems, the next step is to ensure that the information in these systems is used to improve student learning. The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) has identified 10 actions that states can take to ensure that the right data are available and accessible and that users have the knowledge and skills to use the data well (see "10 State Actions To Ensure Effective Data Use," page 2). This paper discusses reports that states can create using longitudinal data. These reports include, but are not limited to: (1) Growth reports looking at changes in the achievement of the same students over time; (2) Diagnostic reports providing academic histories of students' mastery of specific concepts or skills; (3) Early warning reports identifying students who need immediate help based on at-risk indicators; (4) Predictive reports showing the relationship between earlier and later student outcomes--for example, the relationship between 8th grade test scores and students' readiness for college and careers in 12th grade; (5) Cohort graduation reports showing graduation rates of groups of the same students followed since the beginning of 9th grade; and (6) Feedback reports providing information on outcomes for students after they graduate from a school or district. (Contains 3 tables, 10 figures, 16 resources and 20 endnotes.).
Download or read book Louisiana Case Study written by Cherry Kugle and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Data Quality Campaign is a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers to improve the collection, availability and use of high-quality education data and to implement state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement. The campaign aims to provide tools and resources that will assist state development of quality longitudinal data systems, while also providing a national forum for reducing duplication of effort and promoting greater coordination and consensus among the organizations focusing on improving data quality, access and use. To these ends, site visits were conducted in the summer of 2008 to state education agencies (SEAs) to gather information on their experiences in developing statewide longitudinal data systems, with an emphasis on connecting to higher education data systems. This document covers the following topic areas as they relate to Louisiana's longitudinal data system: (1) Major Data Collection Systems; (2) Connection to Higher Education; (3) The Importance of Collecting Social Security Numbers; (4) Implementation Issues; (5) Costs; (6) Data Quality; (7) Data Use; (8) Lessons Learned; and (9) Future Plans. An appendix presents: Louisiana Department of Education Security Measures and Guidelines for Protecting Social Security Numbers.
Download or read book Utah Case Study written by Cherry Kugle and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Data Quality Campaign is a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers to improve the collection, availability and use of high-quality education data and to implement state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement. The campaign aims to provide tools and resources that will assist state development of quality longitudinal data systems, while also providing a national forum for reducing duplication of effort and promoting greater coordination and consensus among the organizations focusing on improving data quality, access and use. To these ends, four site visits were conducted in the spring of 2006 to state education agencies (SEAs) to gather information on their experiences in developing statewide longitudinal data systems: Florida, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin. This report discusses the following elements relating to Utah's longitudinal data system: (1) History of Development; (2) Implementation Issues; (3) Benefits and Uses of System; (4) Lessons Learned; and (5) Recommendations for Future Development.
