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"Creating assessment networks for schools"

Charters use a variety of SIS software. The majority use the USOE SIS2000+ software; the others use PowerSchool, RenWeb, and Compass.

Regardless of which SIS you use to manage the daily student information of attendance, course scheduling, grades, etc, a subset of the data is collected by USOE for longitudinal data analysis and reporting. As of 2005, student information is connected by the State Student Identifier (SSID).

Three times per year SIS data is verified via the Clearinghouse process. After it is clean, it is loaded into the USOE Data Warehouse. Standardized test data is also loaded into the warehouse at different times of the year. Until August 2009, a subset of the warehouse data was given to schools on what was called the Enhanced Research Disk.

I have the Enhanced Research Disks (Access files) since the 2003-04 school year for all charters that signed a permission slip. I use this data to generate reports for charters.

In August 2008, school data was also released in a new format known as SERF. By August 2009 it is the only format of data released. I have SERF data for all charters that signed a permission slip for me to access their Move-IT folder where this data is released.

I created an Excel document for each LEA (charter) from their SERF data. The file contains all the CRT scores for students from Spring 2009. Click here for documentation on the columns of data and how to auto-filter to quickly analyze the data for different teachers at your school. (New 09/14/09)