Demonstration: New Perspectives On School Report Cards

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Demonstration New Perspectives On School Report
Cards

• Kyung-Sung Kim

UCLA/CRESSTSeoul National University of
Education CRESST ConferenceLos Angeles,
CASeptember 9, 2004
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Who needs the School Report Cards?

• State Department of Education
• Local School Districts
• Teachers
• Parents
• Anyone interested in the performance of local
  districts and schools

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Why School Report Cards?

• Accountability Report Cards
• School Level
• District Level
• State Level
• Annual School Report Cards
• School Level
• District Level
• Student Report Cards
• Student Level

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What types of data you have?

• AYP based on NCLB act (Student Performances,
  Participation Rate)
• Student demographics (gender, ethnicity, LEP,
  NSLP)
• Student outcomes (Dropout, Attendance,
  Graduation)
• School/classroom Safety, Facilities and Other
  Unit-level Characteristics (Class size, budget
  per student, computers, Internet connection)
• Teacher Characteristics (Experience, Credential,
  Subject specialty, demographics)
• Other indicators as needed (special survey
  results, Safety, and locals specific goals)

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The Procedure of Report Cards Development

• Input Data Management
• Selecting Educational Indicators
• Gathering all existing information
• Making Report Cards
• Designing Report Cards Templates
• Creating Report Cards
• Output of Report Cards
• Web Posting Report Cards
• Publish paper based Report Cards

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1st Generation(Conventional Method)

• Utilizing MS/Word Excel with OLE
• Collecting Information about Indicators
• Creating a Template by MS/Word
• Creating some Graphics by MS/Excel
• Linking those two files with OLE function
• Replicating for several schools

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2nd Generation(Use of PDF Graphics and Builder)

• Utilizing a popular document format (DBF, Excel,
  MDB)
• Creating a Template by Graphics Designer
• Creating a program to change Scalable Graphics
• Making a builder to create multiple School Report
  Cards
• Add and Modify School Information (Data
  Level)
• Re-Building School Report Cards (Output)

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3rd Generation(SRC Authoring System)

• Simple Design of SRC Templates
• Choice of Object (Name of Modules)
• Choice of Location (by x y Coordinations)
• Choice of Size (by points)
• Choice of Font and Its Size (by name points)
• Choice of Scalable Output (PDF)

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4th Generation (I)(SRC Template Generator)

• Functions of Template Generator
• Texts Input with or w/o DB link
• Line and Box input
• Graphics Input with or w/o DB link
• Dial, Thermometer, Vertical Bar, Horizontal Bar
• Odometer, Dummy Graphics, Line Graphs
• and many other Graphic Objects

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4th Generation (II)(SRC Template Generator)

• Management of Templates
• Single Page
• Multiple Pages
• Choice of Page Sizes (Until A2 Size)
• Copy and Paste between templates

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More Functions And Graphics

• Many more Objects from QSP Reports
• Quartile Bar, Floating Bar, Goal Outputs
• Individual Student Report and Progress
• Scatter Plot, Simple Statistics Outputs
• Moving Graphic Outputs (Using XML)
• 3 Dimensional Outputs

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What CRESST Can Help You?

• Database Management
• Data Cleaning from Many other Sources
• (DBF, Excel, MDB, Oracle, Informix, DB2)
• Summarizing (aggregation, disaggregation)
• Designing Report Cards
• Supported by Professional Graphics Designer
• Posting Report Cards
• Web Based or Paper Outputs

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Who You can Contact?

• Joan Herman
• Co-Director of CRESST
• herman_at_cse.ucla.edu

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