Longitudinal Student Data Systems and Reporting

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Longitudinal Student Data Systems and Reporting

• Robert Lee, MCAS Chief Analyst
• Massachusetts Department of Elementary
  Secondary Education
• January 2009

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A brief history of reporting systems in
Massachusetts
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1849-2001 Aggregate collection of enrollment
information
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2002-Present Individual Student Tracking Through
the Student Information Management System

• Connected directly to state funding (2003
  Foundation budget)
• Connected directly to state academic
  accountability systems (2003 for AYP)
• Used to pre-populate student labels for MCAS
  (2005 eliminating the need to fill in 7.1 million
  bubbles for names alone.) Thats 12,000 hours of
  bubbling.
• Loaded into the Electronic Data Warehouse (2007)

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Building a market for student data

• All state assessment files and SIMS electronic
  data files are accessible to educators working to
  improve student education
• Privately developed software funded by the state
  has been available since 2001 to help manage
  electronic data files
• Beginning in 2005 all official assessment results
  have been released electronically (no paper other
  that parent reports)
• Beginning in 2010 all confidential assessment
  results will be released through the state
  Electonic Data Warehouse

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Districts currently using the Electronic Data
Warehouse
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Why are we confident it can work?