Data+Management

**Data Management - NCES Forum Publications to Improve Data Quality Kayser Hall 224 Facilitators: David Patton -Omaha Public School and David Fringer - Council Bluffs Community Schools Description: NCES Forum Publications to Improve Data Quality - Documents to be reviewed include: Managing an Identity Crisis, Secondary School Course Classification System, Forum Guide to Core Finance Data Elements, Forum Curriculum for Improving Education Data, Forum Guide to Metadata, Making Every School Day Count, etc... Talking Points: What is the NCES Forum? - What Forum Resources are Available? - Where do I find Forum Resources? - Examples of "Best Practice" use of Forum Materials**

PowerPoint: [|Using NCES Forum Documents to Improve Data Quality.pptx]

Partial Notes: Problems that we have are the different government programs that provide, for example, free food for eligible students yet deny bus ridesfor others.

A standardized server is necessary because the many different servers don’t allow easy training for all who use them. This is the same with any programs used, a uniform system provides understanding for all who use the systems and collaboration between users becomes a much easier process.

CIF - Partners to the forum. A language that sits in between all the common data points and interprets them for all systems. Makes automated databases easy to maintain. New students are easy to enter into the system. How much data do they really need to have and at what level? How far down personally do you have to go when recording data about the students?

Keeping the data is substantiated by the results of the student achievement. For example, if a group of teachers receive Tessa training and students perform well, the data received will back the decision to further fund things like the different teacher training.

Online testing results in quick results. Adaptive testing, when questions progress in a pattern that adapts to how a student answers previous questions, are coming to the forefront. Many of the state tests are becoming online tests. Even though many schools don’t use strictly online testing, many are developing systems or considering the option.

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