The Massachusetts Data Quality Program is designed to help both data collectors and data users understand and address the issues that may affect the production of high-quality data. It provides lesson guides, instructional handouts, and material tailored to the specific needs of the K-12 schools and districts. A video describing the importance of data quality is available online for your reference.
As stated on the ESE Web site, "The Data Quality Program is now required for all districts and the program will be held on a regular basis throughout the state." A new round of dates for this one-day training has been posted online at http://www.doe.mass.edu/conference/?ConferenceID=1749 (as of this posting, the most convenient session for readers in the Southeast region of Massachusetts may be January 15 in Milton.)
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Friday, December 6, 2013
Edwin is the Man
"Edwin is the Man." This
quote comes from a blog post from The Data Quality Campaign (DQC). DQC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, national
advocacy organization based in Washington, DC, and they sing the praises of
Edwin. In the post, there is also a
link to a video piece about EWIS (Massachusetts' Early Warning Indicator System) featuring commentary from several Massachusetts districts. The Data is Power video is definitely worth a look as well!
I also learned this week about this
jam-packed graphic from the DQC folks about data use, inviting you to “Follow
one teacher, Ms. Bullen, and one of her students, Joey, through the school year
to see how data help teachers, parents, and others make sure students are
meeting education goals.”
Time is a precious commodity but if you have a few minutes as the week
winds down, definitely check these out!
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Edwin Analytics Update
Here is a summary of yesterday's ESE Edwin Analytics User Group WebEx (thanks to my Data Specialist colleague in Greater Boston, Paula O'Sullivan, for this update as I was unable to attend the WebEx.)
Teacher Access - As presented at the Edwin Workshops in November, ESE is doing a "soft" rollout of teacher access to Edwin Analytics.
Local Assessments Data Uploads - ESE is revisiting the idea of allowing districts to upload local assessment data, particularly data from "off-the-shelf" assessments.
New User Guide - This will be posted any day now, along with a new Security & Access Guide.
Housekeeping - ESE is retiring the remaining references to Education Data Warehouse, EDW and DW. The new email address is edwinanalytics@doe.mass.edu, although the old address still works as well). Security role names have changed (e.g., DW 211 School User is now Edwin Analytics School Administrator).
Cubes - A basic demonstration of the cube functionality was provided.
The Edwin Analytics User Group WebEx is held the first Wednesday of the month at 11a.m. and the third Wednesday of the month at 2p.m. ESE sends email reminders to several lists including the Edwin Analytics Contacts as identified in Directory Administration and to subscribers of the EDWusers email list.
To subscribe to the EDWusers list:
Please send an email to imailsrv@list1.doe.mass.edu
with the following text—and only this text—in the body of the message:
subscribe listname your_full_name (e.g., subscribe edwusers john smith).
Teacher Access - As presented at the Edwin Workshops in November, ESE is doing a "soft" rollout of teacher access to Edwin Analytics.
- At this point, access is available only to those participants of the workshops, but districts can email the Edwin Analytics team to request access if they did not go to a workshop. The security role is "Global Access Teacher" and should NOT be assigned in combination with any other Edwin Analytics role.
- There are three reports available to teachers. These reports are also available to administrators in the Classroom folder.
- Teachers can view the data for last year's students, and for two years prior. At this point, teachers can not run the reports for their current students, but eventually that will be available for districts that have implemented SIF. Manual student claiming does not include updates to teacher reports for current students.
Local Assessments Data Uploads - ESE is revisiting the idea of allowing districts to upload local assessment data, particularly data from "off-the-shelf" assessments.
New User Guide - This will be posted any day now, along with a new Security & Access Guide.
Housekeeping - ESE is retiring the remaining references to Education Data Warehouse, EDW and DW. The new email address is edwinanalytics@doe.mass.edu, although the old address still works as well). Security role names have changed (e.g., DW 211 School User is now Edwin Analytics School Administrator).
Cubes - A basic demonstration of the cube functionality was provided.
The Edwin Analytics User Group WebEx is held the first Wednesday of the month at 11a.m. and the third Wednesday of the month at 2p.m. ESE sends email reminders to several lists including the Edwin Analytics Contacts as identified in Directory Administration and to subscribers of the EDWusers email list.
To subscribe to the EDWusers list:
Please send an email to imailsrv@list1.doe.mass.edu
with the following text—and only this text—in the body of the message:
subscribe listname your_full_name (e.g., subscribe edwusers john smith).
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