Data Collection, Use, and Quality
The materials listed below are from the Data Quality Institute (DQI) sessions from 2005 to 2011. The 2011 sessions are also available in Webcast.
Session Materials
Rethinking NCES Data on Education and Work
This presentation looks at the goals of data collection, and steps that can be taken to develop better data.
 DQI Session: 6/8/2011  Webcast Time: 0:39:08
 View: Presentation slides (PDF, 191 KB)
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Importance of Data to CTE
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This presentation explores the importance of data collection systems, national perceptions of data systems, and defines the components that comprise high-quality data systems.
DQI Session: 6/7/2011 Webcast Time: 00:20:36
View: Presentation slides (PDF, 1.06 MB)
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Data Quality Campaign
The Data Quality Campaign website offers resources to aid states in the implementation and use of longitudinal data systems.
DQI Session: 6/7/2011
 View: Data Quality Campaign
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Ensuring CTE Data Can Be Access, Analyzed, and Used
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This presentation takes a close look at the following three state actions that ensure effective data use: providing timely role-based access to data; creating progress reports with student-level data for educators, students, and parents to make individual decisions; and creating reports with longitudinal statistics to guide change at system level.
DQI Session: 6/7/2011 Webcast Time: 02:27:11
View: Presentation slides (PDF, 2.32 MB)
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State Action 5: Role-Based, Timely Access to Information
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This brief highlights the importance of implementing systems to provide all stakeholders timely access to information and gives an overview of two promising state practices, Arkansas and Colorado.
DQI Session: 6/7/2011
View: State Action 5: Role-Based, Timely Access to Information
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Building Capacity of CTE Stakeholders to Use Data for Effective Decision Making
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This presentation takes a close look at the following three state actions that ensure effective data use: developing a research agenda; implementing policies to ensure educators know how to use data appropriately; and raising awareness to ensure all key stakeholders know how to access and use data.
DQI Session: 6/7/2011 Webcast Time: 03:12:10
View: Presentation slides (PDF, 1.69 MB)
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How Does Data Inform Our Practice
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This presentation looks at Perkins data accountability and how to assess size, scope, and quality.
DQI Session: 12/1/2009
View: Presentation slides (PDF, 1.82 MB)
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Improving Data Quality: Defining Data Quality Criteria and Standards
This document draws from the original Perkins Core Indicator Framework. It updates the data quality criteria in the original framework and provides proposed standards for starting the discussion.
DQI Session: 6/14/2006
 View: Report (Word, 105 KB)
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Clearing the Air: Entry versus Exit Populations
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This presentation reviews the tradeoffs of tracking students based on an entry cohort versus exit population using state data to illustrate their approaches.
DQI Session: 6/14/2006
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Clearing the Air: Entry versus Exit Populations: Colorado Community College System
This presentation reviews the tradeoffs of tracking students based on an entry cohort versus exit population using data from Colorado Community Colleges.
DQI Session: 6/14/2006
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Placement & Retention with Data in California
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This presentation looks at placement and retention data collected in California, and data collection methods for that data.
DQI Session: 6/14/2006
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Administrative Records Matching
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This document looks at Perkins data collection issues regarding records matching.
DQI Session: 6/14/2006
View: Report (Word, 84 KB)
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Collecting Special Populations Data in California
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This presentation looks at California's approach in collection Special Populations data.
DQI Session: 6/14/2006
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Entry and Exiting Cohorts: How to Create an Entry Cohort and How to Use the Cohort Performance Measure 2P1 Postsecondary Completion (Illinois)
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This presentation serves as a how-to for creating an Entry Cohort and using the Cohort for Performance Measure 2P1 Postsecondary Completion.
DQI Session: 6/14/2006
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A Case Study from Minnesota on the New Perkins Management and Accountability Measure 2P1- Degree Credential: A Comparative Analysis of Using Entry or the Exit Cohort Approach
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This presentation uses data from Minnesota to compare the advantages and disadvantages of using Entry or Exit Cohorts.
DQI Session: 6/14/2006
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Entry and Exiting Cohorts: How to Create an Entry Cohort and How to Use the Cohort Performance Measure 2P1 Postsecondary Completion (Wisconsin)
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This presentation looks at Wisconsin's approach in creating an Entry Cohort.
DQI Session: 6/14/2006
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Wisconsin Technical College, Measuring Skill Attainment
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This presentation looks at Wisconsin's approach in creating reliable Assessment systems.
DQI Session: 2/8/2006
View: Presentation slides (PPT, 433 KB)
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Measuring Nontraditional Participation
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This presentation looks at effective approaches in measuring Nontraditional Participation for Perkins Accountability.
DQI Session: 2/8/2006
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Massachusetts' Approach to Secondary Nontraditional Data Collection
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This presentation looks at Massachusetts' approach to Secondary Nontraditional data collection.
DQI Session: 2/8/2006
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Tracking Nontraditional Gender Employment and Instructional Programs in California
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This presentation looks at California's approach for tracking Nontraditional Gender Employment and instructional programs.
DQI Session: 2/8/2006
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Minnesota's Perspective on Standardizing the Postsecondary Nontraditional Performance Indicators: Connecting the Ideal to the Data and Making it Real
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This presentation looks at Minnesota's perspectives on standardizing Postsecondary Nontraditional Performance Indicators.
DQI Session: 2/8/2006
View: Presentation slides (PPT, 11.5 MB)
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CTE and Tech Prep Accountability
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This presentation looks at approaches for identifying CTE & Tech Prep Students who have left High School and entered their local Community College.
DQI Session: 6/14/2005
View: Presentation slides (PPT, 223 KB)
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Minnesota Pivot Table
This spreadsheet compares Entry and Exit Cohort data collected by Minnesota.
 View: Excel (XLS, 50 KB)
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Minnesota Pivot Table- 12 Credits
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This spreadsheet compares Entry and Exit Cohort data collected by Minnesota.
View: Excel (XLS, 60 KB)
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Graduation Counts: A Report of the National Governors Association Task Force on State High School Graduation Data
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This report makes recommendations about how states can develop a high-quality, comparable high school graduation measure, as well as complementary indicators of student progress and outcomes and data systems capable of collecting, analyzing, and reporting the data states need.
View: Report (PDF, 1.27 MB)
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