Minnesotas P20 Statewide Longitudinal Education Data System SLEDS Minnesota Office of Higher Education What is SLEDS The Statewide Longitudinal Education Data System SLEDS will Compile student education data from prekindergarten through completion of postsecondary education and i ID: 404204
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April 2010
Minnesota’s P-20 Statewide Longitudinal Education Data System (SLEDS)
Minnesota Office of Higher EducationSlide2
What is SLEDS?
The Statewide Longitudinal Education Data System (SLEDS) will:
Compile student education data from pre-kindergarten through completion of postsecondary education and into workforce.
Match data from:
Minnesota Department of Education,
Minnesota Office of Higher Education, and
Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.Slide3
Why create SLEDS?
Creating a statewide student longitudinal data system has been
a goal for Minnesota state legislators, state agencies and the governor for several years.
National organizations have supported state efforts to create these data systems.
The federal government required states to create these data systems to receive fiscal stabilization funds in 2009. Slide4
What are federal requirements?
Federal requirements specify state systems must be able to:
(
i
) identify factors that correlate to students' ability to successfully engage in and complete postsecondary-level general education coursework without the need for prior developmental coursework;
(ii) identify factors to increase the percentage of low-income and minority students who are academically prepared to enter and successfully complete postsecondary-level general education coursework; and
(iii) use the data in the system to otherwise inform education policy and practice in order to better align State academic content standards, and curricula, with the demands of postsecondary education, the 21st century workforce, and the Armed Forces.
The America Competes ActSlide5
What is the vision of SLEDS?
To link currently available data
K-12 enrollment and high school graduation data
Postsecondary enrollment and completion data
Employment / workforce data
To conduct research
Identify predictors of long-term student success
Design targeted improvement strategies in programs
Improve data driven decision making
Meet federal funding requirementsSlide6
What types of student data
will be included?
Attendance (school or college name)
Demographic (age, gender, race)
Enrollment (grade level, year of graduation)
Academic performance and testing (test scores, # of credits enrolled)
Special Services (free and reduced price lunch eligible, gifted/talented, English language learner)Slide7
What research can be done
using SLEDS?
System Performance Analysis
Who participates in higher education upon high school graduation?
Who does not participate? Why?
Educational Attainment Gap Analysis
What are the retention, graduation and completion rates by racial/ethnic groups? Geographic areas?
Program and Intervention Analysis
What courses, curriculum and programs lead to college participation and completion? Slide8
What are the legal issues?
Minnesota Data Practices Act
Identifies categories of individual data that can be shared
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
Restricts an education institution’s ability to disclose data
Restricts MDE and OHE’s ability to
redisclose
student data
MDE and OHE Data Sharing Agreement
Defines student data to be provided by each agency
Specifies linkage and usage of student data as required by FERPA
OHE Enrollment Data Sharing Agreement with higher education institutions
Defines data to be provided by higher education institutions
Specifies OHE’s usage of the data as required by FERPASlide9
Who will
govern SLEDS?
SLEDS Governance Committee
SLEDS Research Committee
SLEDS IT Staff
SLEDS Data Advisory Committee
SLEDS System Coordinators
SLEDS State Data Center
Minnesota Office of Higher Education
Minnesota Department of Education
P-20 Education PartnershipSlide10
What are SLEDS committee responsibilities?
Governance Committee
Evaluate research requests
Appoint research and data advisory committee members
Research Committee
Develop and evaluate proposed research
Provide technical expertise
Data Advisory Committee
Review technical specifications of data requests
Provide technical expertise on data structure, linkages, user interfacesSlide11
What are the organizational responsibilities?
State Agencies – MDE, OHE, DEED, OET
Maintain student confidentiality during data linkage
Maintain data integrity of new data system
Identify and conduct research for state level policy making using SLEDS data
Postsecondary Institutions
Provide postsecondary education data to OHE
Serve as objective reviewers of state level research
Identify and conduct research using SLEDS dataSlide12
What are the next steps?
Share the vision of a longitudinal data systemAppointment of committee members by Minnesota’s P-20 Education Partnership
Establish data sharing protocols
Develop technical specifications and construct data system
Formalize research agendaSlide13
Need more information?
Minnesota Office of Higher Education http://
www.ohe.state.mn.us
Agency initiatives:
Minnesota P-20 Statewide Longitudinal Educational Data System