Re: [seul-edu] Collecting Assessments at District Level

[Paul Bauer <paul@shorttermwhat.com>]

I can answer some of this, I am the Assessment tech for our district.  I gather a ton of information on a daily basis.  Would you like a current list of what We are required by the state to fill out on our tests or would you like a listing of the information that we keep track of above and beyond that as well?

Currently I think we are keeping track of some 300+ fields.
Name, birthdate, ssn, student id, state id, county id, special ed id, immigrant status, indian ed, migrant ed, home language, primary ethnicity, secondary ethnicity, STAR test scores, GSE test scores, District test scores CAHSEE test scores. Ad nauseum.   Currently all is done in oracle using a not ready for primetime GUI.   

Please let me know what information you would like and the format which will best help you.

Thanks,
Paul

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:48:57AM -0700, Alan Chen wrote:
> I would be interested in the type of data that you collect. My company,
> Digikata is currently assembling a proposal for a US. Dept. of Education
> Phase II SBIR to develop an Open Source educational "information appliance"
> which would handle data along the lines of what you're describing.  I'm 
> always looking for concrete examples of what assessment data is collected by
> schools.  What type of analysis tools would you be looking for?
> 
> BTW, you're input will likely go into the proposal (without your name or school
> attached, unless you want attribution).
> 
> Cheers,
> - alan
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:37:42AM -0500, Stephen Braunius wrote:
> > I continue to enjoy the discussions with this list.  Thank you all for 
> > continuing to look for ways to move linux into education.
> > 
> > As a district, we are starting to collect a large amount of assessment 
> > data from the local level, the State level, and the National level 
> > (ITBS, PLAN, etc).  Currently I have a MySQL database set up that is 
> > integrated with Zope to serve up the data we are collecting.  The 
> > problem is that I don't know that much about database planning and am 
> > finding that it is difficult to scale this thing over time.
> > 
> > Any suggestions on the formatting of a relational assessment database 
> > (i.e. table structures that deal with student data, test structures, and 
> > test data...almost a data warehouse concept?) or web enabled software 
> > options that are out there that allow for data entry, viewing, 
> > reporting, and charting?  I have checked the seul-edu list, freshmeat, 
> > and google.
> > 
> > Some really neat projects that are similar to what I am looking for are 
> > the State of Washington and Massachusetts web education spaces.
> > http://www.k12.wa.us -- look at the Ed Profile
> > http://www.ves.ws/nsportal.html -- Virtual Education Space
> > 
> > From what I have seen, the above projects are commissioned at the State 
> > Level and are not publicly available packages.  Ideas?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Stephen Braunius
> > Director of Instructional Technology
> > Zeeland Public Schools - http://www.zeeland.k12.mi.us
> > Zeeland, Michigan
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Alan Chen
> Digikata LLC
> http://digikata.com

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