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Education Trust-West, 2024
In 2019, California passed legislation that called for the creation of its longitudinal data system, the Cradle-to-Career (C2C) Data System. Since then, the state has allocated $40.52 million in funding to support the agency's efforts. Given the substantial state investment and the potential for more, better, and accessible data to answer critical…
Descriptors: State Programs, Statewide Planning, Data Collection, Information Dissemination
Data Quality Campaign, 2011
There is an increasing focus at the state and federal levels on linking data across the P-20/Workforce spectrum to help inform policies and practices. This primer is intended to provide policymakers with: (1) An overview of the status of states vis-a-vis the linking of postsecondary data to K-12 and workforce data; (2) A subset of questions…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Data Collection, Barriers, Information Policy
Data Quality Campaign, 2012
Policymakers across the nation are leading efforts to ensure that every classroom has an effective teacher. Faced with the need to dramatically improve student outcomes, states have embraced a policy agenda that promotes and supports teacher quality in many ways, including developing evaluation and compensation policies, targeting professional…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Competencies, State Policy, Data Collection
Lumina Foundation for Education, 2009
The purpose of this guide is to help readers clarify their roles in the college access and success system and to identify how they might use data to create change for students. This guide shows how data can strengthen current programs and support broader changes that ease the path to college for students. This guide illuminates how a long-term…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Access to Education, Guides, Data
Data Quality Campaign, 2010
This report presents survey results of the 10 State Actions including status of all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These State Actions include: (1) Link P-20/workforce data systems; (2) Create stable, sustained support for robust state longitudinal data systems; (3) Develop governance structures to guide data collection,…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Governance, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Hebbeler, Kathleen – 1993
This study compiled descriptive information about what states are doing or planning to do with early intervention data systems, a component of early intervention systems as specified in Part H of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The study examined the uses of data systems in eight states: Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Data Collection, Databases, Disabilities
Hamre, William; Holsclaw, Mick – 1989
For the past three years, the Board of Governors has made the development and implementation of the California Community College Management Information System (MIS) a major priority. Following two years of pilot testing with five community college districts, statewide implementation of Phase I of MIS is slated to begin in July/August 1989. Several…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria
Nespoli, Lawrence A. – 1986
A series of projects were conducted in Maryland as part of an effort to develop a valid and reliable student database for planning, decision making, and Vocational Education Data System reporting; and a systematic and objective procedure to evaluate the quality of occupational programs in Maryland's community colleges. The projects had three…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Data Collection, Databases, Management Information Systems
Maryland State Board for Community Colleges, Annapolis. – 1983
Prepared as part of a joint effort by the Maryland State Board for Community Colleges (SBCC) and the Maryland State Board of Education to promote high-quality occupational programs and services, this report provides information on the state's management information system and program data monitoring system. Following the text of a resolution…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Alkin, Marvin C. – 1985
A study was sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to: (1) document and analyze the information needs of various groups (e.g., the legislature, state agencies, and community colleges) with respect to the state's community colleges and to prepare a matrix of information needs and uses; (2) inventory the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Data Collection, Information Needs, Information Sources
Webster, Linda; Larson, Larry – 1989
This document reports on the design and development of a comprehensive longitudinal monitoring system that allows for the identification of at-risk students and the evaluation of district programs and services by one high school and five elementary school districts in California and the School of Education at San Jose State University. The goal of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Longitudinal Studies
Georgia State Dept of Education, Atlanta. Div. of Public Library Services. – 1988
This document comprises the recommendations of a 13-member Paperwork Reduction Task Force appointed by Georgia's State Superintendent of Schools, in response to concern by educators and the public that the Quality Basic Education Act (QBE) had created a substantial increase in paperwork, particularly for teachers. The task force of teachers,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bureaucracy, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
Kugle, Cherry; Smith, Nancy – Data Quality Campaign, 2006
The Data Quality Campaign is a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers to improve the collection, availability and use of high-quality education data and to implement state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement. The campaign aims to provide tools and resources that will assist state development…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies, State Agencies, Program Implementation
Farland, Ronnald W.; And Others – 1987
Accountability in two-year college vocational education assumes that colleges have knowledge of students' goals while they are attending college and have the capacity to follow-up on students to determine whether those goals were achieved. One measure of goal achievement is employment or further enrollment in fields in which students have been…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Data Collection, Followup Studies, Information Needs
McClure, Charles R.; And Others – 1991
This report presents a summary of activities, findings, and recommendations from Phase I of a project to improve the effectiveness of academic health science libraries and their provision of information services. The objectives for Phase I of the project are given: (1) to identify academic health science library requirements in the areas of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Databases