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National Council on Teacher Quality, 2025
Despite enacting well-intentioned policies to improve teacher recruitment and retention, many states continue to face significant staffing challenges, particularly in high-need schools and hard-to-staff subjects such as math, science, and special education. Two years ago, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) set out to explore the…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Recruitment, Data Collection, Information Management
Bryant, Rebecca; Fransen, Jan; de Castro, Pablo; Helmstutler, Brenna; Scherer, David – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2021
Research information management (RIM) is a rapidly growing area of investment in US research universities. RIM systems that support the collection and use of research outputs metadata have been in place for many years. Globally, the RIM ecosystem is quite mature in locales where national research assessment exercises like the United Kingdom's…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Information Management, Metadata, Data Use
Bryant, Rebecca; Fransen, Jan; de Castro, Pablo; Helmstutler, Brenna; Scherer, David – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2021
Research Information Management (RIM) is a rapidly growing area of investment in US research universities, comprised of a variety of use cases, stakeholders, and products. This growth has been characteristically decentralized, resulting in silos, multiple systems, and frequent duplication of efforts at many institutions. This report is a two-part…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Information Management, Metadata, Data Use
Perry, Angela – Project on Student Debt, 2019
California has long been a national and global leader in developing and maintaining quality higher education options, as well as in providing financial aid and consumer protections for Californians who access that education. However, although California's colleges and the state government do collect, receive, and report a great deal of data, these…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Access to Information, Wages, Data Collection
Browne, Daniel – Wallace Foundation, 2015
With many cities showing an interest in afterschool system building and research providing a growing body of useful information, this Wallace Perspective offers a digest of the latest thinking on how to build and sustain an afterschool system, and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for this promising work. The report (a follow-up to a…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Program Development, Sustainability, Leadership Responsibility
Texas Education Agency, 2017
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate
Texas Education Agency, 2015
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate
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Goomas, David T.; Isbell, Teresa – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
The process of building a culture of evidence involves using data to understand where students are experiencing problems, designing strategies for remedying those problems, implementing them, and then evaluating the effectiveness of those implemented strategies. This case study is about two programs that were implemented within the last two years…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Evidence, Case Studies, Performance Factors
Texas Education Agency, 2016
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, High School Students, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate
Texas Education Agency, 2014
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate
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National Forum on Education Statistics, 2010
In the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the immediate demand for data about displaced students overwhelmed many school districts that had gained or lost students because of the disasters. The scale of these crises and their effects on school operations and management were in many ways unprecedented. This guide reflects "lessons…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Information Management, Student Mobility, Crisis Management
Kaufman, Phillip – University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute, 2002
This paper explores the feasibility of collecting longitudinal survey data on students within California schools as a way of supplementing the information California currently collects on its students. Hopefully, this paper will be the start of a process that will lead to the institution of what we in this paper tentatively call the California…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Longitudinal Studies, Data Collection, Elementary School Students
Palmer, Jim – 1990
Designed for the community college practitioner who may be considering initiating a student tracking system, this report draws upon selected writings and other sources to examine the potential role of student tracking systems in student outcomes research. The report examines the limited scope of community college longitudinal studies conducted to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges