Transcript Aimee Day of Data - Education Writers Association

Mining the Data:
What States Have and Where to Find It
Elizabeth Laird
Director, Communications and External Affairs
Data Quality Campaign
February 7, 2012
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Effective
data use
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Decreasing resources
Increasing expectations
The Current Education Landscape…
Connecting Education Data and Decisions
Increasing Teacher Effectiveness
o Do my state’s policies ensure a measurably
effective educator workforce?
o With which students am I consistently most
effective?
Ensuring College and Career Readiness
o Are my state’s policies and data systems aligned to
ensure that expectations in P–12 support student
success in postsecondary education?
o Which courses should I take to ensure that I am
prepared to take credit-bearing courses in college?
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Data Defined: Moving Beyond Test Scores
The most useful data are:
» Longitudinal — follow individual students over
time.
» Actionable — timely, user friendly and
meaningful to users.
» Contextual — robust, comparable and presented
as part of a bigger picture.
» Interoperable — matched, linked and shared
across systems and sectors.
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About Data for Action: DQC’s State Analysis
» Tracks states’ progress toward transforming
education into a data-driven enterprise
» Spurs dialogue in states and informs their
planning efforts
» Led by the governor’s office
» 2011 marks the seventh annual release of DQC’s
state analysis, and the final year for assessing
states’ progress toward the 10 Essential Elements
For state-by-state analysis and to view the state respondents,
please visit: http://www.DataQualityCampaign.org
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Data for Action 2011: State Respondents
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10 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
of Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems
1. A unique statewide student identifier.
2. Student-level enrollment, demographic and program participation
information.
3. The ability to match individual students’ test records from year to
year to measure academic growth.
4. Information on untested students.
5. A teacher identifier system with the ability to match teachers to
students.
6. Student-level transcript information, including information on
courses completed and grades earned.
7. Student-level college readiness test scores.
8. Student-level graduation and dropout data.
9. The ability to match student records between the P–12 and
postsecondary systems.
10. A state data audit system assessing data quality, validity and
reliability.
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Every State Has Capacity to Empower Education
Stakeholders with Data
36 states have all 10 Elements, up from zero in 2005
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Student-Level Test Data to Measure Growth
(Element 3=52 states)
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Statewide Teacher Identifier with a TeacherStudent Match (Element 5=44 states)
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Student-Level Course Completion (Transcript) Data
(Element 6=41 states)
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Student-Level SAT, ACT, and Advanced Placement
Exam Data (Element 7=50 states)
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Student-Level Graduation and Dropout Data
(Element 8=52 states)
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Majority of States Collect High School Grades
(based on Data for Action 2010)
Element 2: Student Course Completion Data
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States Have Made Incredible Progress
» Better Data: Every state has robust longitudinal data
that extend beyond test scores.
» Improved Access: States are increasingly providing
better data to appropriate stakeholders.
» Increased Awareness: States are making this
increased capacity known.
» Long-term Sustainability: States are planning for the
future.
Every state has the capacity to empower
education stakeholders with data.
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Moving from the 10 Essential Elements to 10 State
Actions to Support Effective Data Use
Link data systems
across P-20 and the
workforce to answer
key questions
1. Link state K-12 data systems with early learning,
postsecondary, workforce, and others
2. Create sustainable support for the longitudinal
data system (LDS)
3. Develop governance structures to guide LDS
4. Build state data repositories
Ensure that
appropriate data can
be accessed while
protecting privacy
5. Provide timely role-based access to data
6. Create progress reports with student-level data
for educators, students, and parents to make
individual decisions
7. Create reports with longitudinal statistics to
guide change at system level
Build capacity of all
stakeholders to use
longitudinal data
8. Develop a research agenda
9. Implement policies to ensure educators know
how to use data appropriately
10. Raise awareness to ensure all key stakeholders
know how to access and use data
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States Have Not Taken Action
to Support Effective Data Use
No state has all 10 Actions
10 State Actions
1. Link P-20/W Data Systems
(11 states)
2. Create stable, sustained
support (27)
3. Develop governance
structures (36)
4. Build data repositories (44)
5. Provide timely data access
(2)
6. Create individual student
progress reports (29)
7. Create longitudinal reports
(36)
8. Develop research agenda
(31)
9. Build educator capacity (3)
10. Raise awareness of available
data (23)
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Data for Action 2011: Game-Changing Priorities
1.
IDENTIFY, through broad-based
input, and publicly document the
state’s critical policy questions.
2.
ESTABLISH decision-making
authority of state P–20/W data
governance bodies.
3.
SHARE data on teachers’ impact on
student achievement with the
institutions that prepared them.
4.
DETERMINE whether existing
high school feedback reports
meet local needs.
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High School Feedback Reports: Providing
Postsecondary Feedback to High Schools
49 states have the capacity to match studentlevel records in K-12 and public higher
education systems
38 states annually match and share
student-level K-12 and
postsecondary records
39 states provide high
school feedback
reports
33 states make
those reports
publicly available
on a state website
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Type of Information in HS Feedback Reports
Of the 33 states that have made their high school
feedback reports publicly available:
» 33 states include college enrollment information
» 28 states include remediation information
» 14 states include degree completion information
» 12 states include information about students
who attended postsecondary in other state
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State Example: Kentucky
Source: Kentucky High School Feedback Reports (2004)
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Continue the Conversation…
» Does your state collect the necessary studentlevel data to answer your questions?
» Does your state link student-level K-12 and
postsecondary data?
» Does your state produce high school feedback
reports?
» Are these reports publicly available?
» Does your state have a formalized process
through which you can submit information
requests?
Visit www.DataQualityCampaign.org to find out.
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Contact DQC
Elizabeth Laird
Director, Communications and External Affairs, DQC
[email protected]
(202)393-7192
www.DataQualityCampaign.org
Our work is made possible by philanthropic grants and contributions from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, the
Lumina Foundation for Education, AT&T, and the Birth to Five Policy Alliance.
Additional support has been provided by The Broad Foundation, The Pew
Charitable Trusts, and Casey Family Programs.
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