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What is the KIDS Program?
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School Districts will send their data through Regional Data Warehouse Providers to the Oregon Department of Education (ODE). The data from all Oregon schools will be contained in a database at the ODE. This will result in streamlined transfer of data between the Regional Data Warehouse Providers and ODE. It will also provide the ability to transfer student permanent record data between schools and up to colleges and universities. It will provide for the extract of historical assessment data and eventually will be a means for submitting state reports.
ODE will actually have two databases. One database, the Operational Data Store (ODS) will contain detailed student information that is required for reporting purposes. The other database will be called the KIDS Data Warehouse. The KIDS Data Warehouse will have aggregated data that removes all students identifying information. ODE will have reports available to the public that are generated from this database.
For more information go to the KIDS Phase III - Statewide Rollout page at: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=1489
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What are the major goals and objectives?
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Design, develop, and implement a data warehouse to integrate key Districts and ESD student information systems (SIS) data.
Standardize data codes and business rules, and enable electronic student record exchange between school districts.
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Who is participating and overseeing this project?
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Project team participants are drawn from key districts and ESDs that represent many of the existing student information systems, such as eSIS, Pentamation, SchoolMaster, PowerSchool, LBL, and SASI.
The Data Quality Work Group represents education stakeholders, and will help to oversee the project and guide the implementation around federal and state policy guidelines.
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What is a Regional Provider?
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In order to streamline this process, the data from the districts are sent to Regional Data Warehouse Providers. We have six Regional Providers within the state. The school districts affiliate with the Regional Providers and then the Regional Providers are responsible for sending the district’s data to ODE. The six Regional Providers are:
Portland Public Schools, Portland, OR
Beaverton School District, Beaverton, OR
Hillsboro School District, Hillsboro, OR
Eugene School District 4J, Eugene, OR
Willamette ESD, Salem, OR
Linn-Benton-Lincoln ESD, Albany, OR
If you click on the Regional Data Warehouse Providers icon on the KIDS website, you will be taken to their page. On this page it provides a list of Affiliated Districts by District and Region. It also provides a list of those districts that are not affiliated.
For more information go to: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=2456
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What is the Oregon Student Transcript Exchange (OSTX)?
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Please visit our District OSTX FAQ site at https://district.ode.state.or.us/apps/faqs/?id=149.
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What is the KIDS Data Warehouse?
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The KIDS Data Warehouse is the database where aggregated data will be stored. Aggregated data has all unique student identifiers removed so it is impossible to identify a student. The data and reports that will be generated from this warehouse will provide statistical information at the school, district, county, Education School District (ESD), and state level.
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Will we have a choice of which warehouse we go to?
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Right now the only 2 that are taking new districts are Willamette ESD and LBL ESD. That said all regional providers would like to work with the districts through their local ESD. In some cases another ESD is taking on the function for another ESD. High Desert ESD is doing most of the central part of the state. Umatilla-Morrow is working with a lot of the eastern side of the state. Lane ESD decided to work with Willamette since they have developed the process to bring on Pentamation districts.
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Are there districts piloting the data warehouse now that we can contact?
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There are quite a few districts around the state piloting the data warehouse. Please contact any of the Regional DW Providers for regional data warehouse district data. You can also ask them about how they are doing other districts loading data to ODE.
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What is the DATA Partnership and how do the partners relate?
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The KIDS Program works closely with The Teaching Learning Connection, The Oregon Data Project and The Longitudinal Growth Model. The combined goal of these groups is to enhance the quality and understanding of data to ensure it is accurate and standardized for purposes of analysis and reporting that can be used to inform policy decisions in such a way as to increase student achievement.
The Oregon Data Project’s goal is to improve student achievement through informed use of data. It has launched a multi-tiered program of professional development focused on teaching educators how to collect, analyze and use appropriate data to ensure student success. The Oregon Data Project has three main training strands. They provide statewide training and support the Data-Driven-Decision-Making training provided by The Teaching Learning Connection.
For more information on the Oregon Data Project, go to: http://www.oregondataproject.org/
The Teaching Learning Connection has developed and offers the Data-Driven-Decision-Making training that helps schools and districts implement effective school practices. It is an integrated sustainable system that focuses on how to increase student achievement by providing the tools, process and supports. The categories of The Teaching Learning Connection are: Leadership, Instruction, Curriculum, District and School Culture Norms, Integrated Systems and Structures; and Family and Community Engagement.
For more information on The Teaching Learning Connection, go to: http://www.oregoneesc.org/content/tlc-resources
The Longitudinal Growth Model is a system that tracks the learning progress and growth of individual students over time and allows schools, districts, and the state to analyze the rate student learning (i.e., growth) is occurring. By analyzing rates of growth, we can provide a more complete view of school performance that can be achieved by status models alone.
ODE is developing a revised school rating formula that will incorporate a Growth Model. This revised rating formula will be applied to the 2008-09 school and district report cards.
For more on the Longitudinal Growth Model, go to:
http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=2495
The KIDS Program, the Teaching Learning Connection, The Oregon Data Project and the Longitudinal Growth Model are all using data to improve current systems to ensure Oregon students are learning to their potential and are successful.
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Do we use the NCES Course Code standard or some other standard to flag courses in KIDS?
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KIDS will be moving to the same 5 digit NCES code used for collections.
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