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Summary

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.

Author Biography

JAMIE McQUIGGAN is a technical writer specializing in education topics at SAS Institute Inc. She has a master's degree in technical communication and experience in software documentation, grant writing and social media strategy. She is a former information developer at IBM and business analyst with Fidelity Investments.

ARMISTEAD W. SAPP III is the senior vice president of Research and Development at SAS, responsible for the development of the software used at more than 65,000 sites in more than 135 countries. As head of the P-20 efforts at SAS, he leverages corporate R&D to bring innovative solutions for administration and instruction to the education market. This includes responsibility for SAS® Curriculum Pathways, a no-cost Web-based curriculum for middle and high schools. His 20-plus-year career at SAS has encompassed many roles in marketing and R&D, and he was the president of SouthPeak Interactive (a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software). He is also a contract researcher at Duke University Health System, working on neonatal best practices and safety.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: How to Establish a Successful SLDS

What is a Statewide Longitudinal Data System?

What an SLDS can do that Sneaker Net cannot

What it takes to implement (or improve) a successful SLDS

Preview

Notes

Chapter 2: The SLDS Landscape

History of longitudinal data systems

The State of SLDSs Today

Data Management Models

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 3: Getting Started on your SLDS

SLDS Planning & Preparation

Establish a Data Governance Board

Address Interoperability of the data

Set policies for Data Security and Student Privacy

Evaluate Current Systems and Make Connections

Make it Sustainable

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 4: Data Management: Creating One Version of the Truth

What is Master Data Management?

Incorporating MDM Principles in your SLDS

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 5 Florida Case Study: The Up and Downside of Being the First

Florida’s SLDS

Renovating what exists using Federal grants

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 6 Michigan’s SLDS: A Tool for Reinventing the Economy

Michigan’s SLDS: Moving Beyond Compliance

Career & College Ready Initiative: how longitudinal data can inform the discussion

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 7 North Carolina Case Study

Stakeholders and the NC P20W system

The Vision

State Legislation reinforcing SLDS

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 8: Sharing Information with Others

Public Information Sharing: What information is the public entitled to and interested in?

Policymakers and state-level decision makers: How can legislators enable and use longitudinal data?

Researchers: How can states leverage researchers to make the longitudinal data answer key questions?

Establishing the Connection with Academia

Parents: What do parents need to have access to in an SLDS, and how will it make a difference?

Students: How can an SLDS provide students with more intuitive, instant access to their own student record?

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 9: Using Data in Schools and Classrooms

Teachers

Administrators

The Teacher-Student Record Link

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 10: Expanding your SLDS: Adding Out of School Time and Health Care Data

Collective Impact: the longitudinal data connection

OST: What happens when they’re not in school?

Health Care Data

How to facilitate collective impact initiatives

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 11: A Culture of Data: Using longitudinal data to solve big problems

Creating a Culture of Data

Data Driven Decision Tools

Response to Intervention (RTI)

Early Warning Systems

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 12: It’s Not About the Data

Ways to Sustain the System

Conclusion

Notes

About the Author(s)

Index

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