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EPILive
A Presentation of the Educational Policy Institute
Stay Tuned The program will begin promptly at
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• Data Quality and the No Child Left Behind Act
• Friday, February 23, 2007
• Moderator Watson Scott Swail, Educational Policy
  Institute
• Guests Aimee Guidera Nancy Smith, Data Quality
  Campaign
• Bethann Canada, Virginia Department of Education

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Watson Scott Swail

• President, Educational Policy Institute
• Former Vice President of Council for Opportunity
  in Education and Founding Director of the Pell
  Institute
• Senior Researcher at SRI International and
  Associate Director for Policy Analysis for the
  College Board
• Former middle school teacher
• Received his Ed.D. from The George Washington
  University

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Aimee Guidera

• Director, Data Quality Campaign
• Joined the National Center for Educational
  Accountability as Director of the Washington, DC
  office in 2003 to promote Just For The Kids
  School Reports.
• Served with the National Alliance of Business
  National Governors Association, and the Japanese
  Ministry of Education.
• received her AB from Princeton University's
  Woodrow Wilson School of Public International
  Affairs Masters in Public Policy from Harvard
  University's John F. Kennedy School of
  Government.

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Nancy Smith

• Deputy Director, Data Quality Campaign
• Responsibilities including research,
  publications, the annual survey of state data
  systems, and communications
• Worked at the Texas Education Agency as a
  researcher
• Serves as a consultant to the Wisconsin
  Department of Public Instruction and the Council
  of Chief State School Officers
• She received her doctorate in Educational
  Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin
  in 1997.

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BethAnn Canada

• Director of Educational Information Management
  for the Virginia Department of Education.
• Chair of the Forum and Chair of the National
  Education Statistics Agenda Committee.
• Mrs. Canada is the recipient of the 2006 Data
  Quality Campaign State Data Leadership Award.

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What is the Data Quality Campaign?
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Creating a Longitudinal Data System

• 10 Essential Elements
• Unique statewide student identifier (44)
• Student-level enrollment, demographic and program
  participation information (46)
• Ability to match individual students test
  records from year to year to measure growth (43)
• Information on untested students (33)
• Teacher identifier system with ability match
  teachers to students (16)
• Student-level transcript information, including
  information on courses completed and grades
  earned (12)
• Student-level college readiness test scores (9)
• Student-level graduation and dropout data (41)
• Ability to match student records between the
  Pre-K-12 and post-secondary systems (18)
• State data audit system assessing data quality,
  validity, and reliability (36)

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DQC State of the State Data Systems

• This map shows how many of these essential
  elements each state currently has based on
  responses to the 2006 NCEA data system survey.

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DQC Managing Partners

Achieve, Inc Alliance for Excellent
Education Council of Chief State School
Officers Education Commission of the States The
Education Trust National Association of State
Boards of Education National Association of
System Heads National Center for Educational
Accountability National Center for Higher
Education Mgt Systems National Governors Assoc.
Center for Best Practices Schools
Interoperability Framework Association Standard
Poors School Evaluation Services State
Educational Technology Directors
Association State Higher Education Executive
Officers

• The campaign is supported by The Bill Melinda
  Gates Foundation and managed by the National
  Center for Educational Accountability.

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DQC EndorsingPartners

ACT Alliance for Quality Teaching American
Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
(AACTE) American Association of State Colleges
and Universities (AASCU) American Board for
Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE)
American Productivity Quality Center (APQC)
Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ) College
Summit, Inc. Consortium for School Networking
(CoSN) Educational Policy Institute (EPI) ETS
GreatSchools Institute for a Competitive
Workforce (An Affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce) Jobs for the Future (JFF) League of
Education Voters Foundation National Alliance
for Public Charter Schools National Association
of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) National
Education Knowledge Industry Association (NEKIA)
Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council
(PESC) Roads to Success Southern Regional
Education Board (SREB)

• The campaign is supported by The Bill Melinda
  Gates Foundation and managed by the National
  Center for Educational Accountability.

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Data Quality Campaign Approach

• Build Policymaker understanding and will to
  invest in and use quality data infrastructures
• Success StoriesCase Studies of 4 states
  Implementation Papers
• Recognition of leadershipAwards in November
• Provide tools, materials and information
• Examples of the powerful use of data to inform
  policy practice
• ToolKits for various audiences on uses of data to
  improve achievement
• Quarterly Issue Meetings 3/12 Teacher IDs
  (web cast live)
• Create national forum to ensure collaboration,
  develop consensus and reduce duplication of
  effort
• Leverage existing efforts to maximize impact
• Collaborate/communicate through national
  partnership whenever possible
• One-stop resource center www.DataQualityCampaign
  .org

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• http//www.dataqualitycampaign.org/

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Next Week

• Youth Policy and the Future of Americas Children
• Betsy Brand, Director
• American Youth Policy Forum
• Washington, DC
• Friday, March 2, 1pm

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Two Weeks

• Next Steps for Affirmative Action
• Mr. Ward Conerly
• Founder Chairman, American Civil Rights
  Institute
• Friday, March 9, 1pm

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EPILive
A Presentation of the Educational Policy Institute