Exploring the State -District Roles & Responsibilities in Building and Using Longitudinal Data Systems
A Field Trip — June 5-6,2008
The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional development organization that bridges youth policy, practice and research for professionals at the national, state, and local levels. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, AYPF is working with a number of other national organizations, including the Data Quality Campaign, to facilitate a series of field trips for state policy leaders to learn more about high school redesign. The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) 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.
This field trip provided participants the opportunity to experience the many facets of creating and using a longitudinal data system by visiting schools and meeting with leaders of promising efforts in Virginia. Virginia has built one of the most complete longitudinal data systems in the country and has found innovative ways to ensure that data can be shared between its local districts’ data systems and the state system. The trip focused on, but not be limited to, Virginia’s efforts to create a longitudinal data system that can inform decision making at the state, district, and classroom levels, as well as explore how districts with robust data systems can inform future development of the state system. Participants had an opportunity to visit a school that is using data effectively, interact with leadership from a large and a small district, and hear from Virginia’s state education data leadership. In addition, some sessions during the trip will be structured so that state teams can learn about the efforts of their peers who have been grappling with using data systems in their own work.
Resources
Find out how your state is doing against the 10 essential elements of a longitudinal data system.
Creating a Longitudinal Data System: Using Data To Improve Student Achievement
How Can My State Benefit from an Educational Data Warehouse?
Reporting and Analysis Tools: Helping Mine Education Data for Information Riches
Next Generation State Data System: What is Needed for Next Generation Assessment and Accountability Systems; Prepared by Nancy J. Smith, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Data Quality Campaign for Achieve, Inc.
House Bill 08-1364 Colorado Legislature
National Education Technology Plan
Agenda
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AYPF’s events and policy reports are made possible by the support of a consortium of philanthropic foundations: Carnegie Corporation of New York, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WT Grant Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, C.S. Mott Foundation, and others.