Demonstration: New Perspectives On School Report Cards Kyung-Sung Kim UCLA/CRESST Seoul National...

Demonstration: New Perspectives On School

Report Cards

Kyung-Sung KimUCLA/CRESST

Seoul National University of Education

CRESST ConferenceLos Angeles, CA

September 9, 2004

Who needs the School Report Cards?Who needs the School Report Cards?

State Department of Education

Local School Districts

Teachers

Parents

Anyone interested in the performance of local districts and schools

Accountability Report Cards School Level

District Level

State Level

Annual School Report Cards School Level

District Level

Student Report Cards Student Level

Why School Report Cards?

What types of data you have?

AYP based on NCLB act (Student Performances, Participation Rate)

Student demographics (gender, ethnicity, LEP, NSLP)

Student outcomes (Dropout, Attendance, Graduation)

School/classroom Safety, Facilities and Other Unit-level Characteristics (Class size, budget per student, computers, Internet connection)

Teacher Characteristics (Experience, Credential, Subject specialty, demographics)

Other indicators as needed (special survey results, Safety, and local’s specific goals)

The Procedure of Report Cards Development

• Input Data Management

• Selecting Educational Indicators

• Gathering all existing information

• Making Report Cards

• Designing Report Cards Templates

• Creating Report Cards

• Output of Report Cards

• Web Posting Report Cards

• Publish paper based Report Cards

1st Generation(Conventional Method)

Utilizing MS/Word & Excel with OLE

• Collecting Information about Indicators

• Creating a Template by MS/Word

• Creating some Graphics by MS/Excel

• Linking those two files with OLE function

• Replicating for several schools

2nd Generation(Use of PDF Graphics and Builder)

Utilizing a popular document format (DBF, Excel, MDB)

Creating a Template by Graphics Designer

Creating a program to change “Scalable Graphics”

Making a builder to create multiple School Report Cards

* Add and Modify School Information (Data Level)

* Re-Building School Report Cards (Output)

3rd Generation(SRC Authoring System)

Simple Design of SRC Templates

Choice of Object (Name of Modules)

Choice of Location (by x & y Coordinations)

Choice of Size (by points)

Choice of Font and Its Size (by name & points)

Choice of Scalable Output (PDF)

4th Generation (I)(SRC Template Generator)

Functions of Template Generator

* Texts Input with or w/o DB link

* Line and Box input

* Graphics Input with or w/o DB link

Dial, Thermometer, Vertical Bar, Horizontal Bar

Odometer, Dummy Graphics, Line Graphs

and many other Graphic Objects

4th Generation (II)(SRC Template Generator)

Management of Templates

* Single Page

* Multiple Pages

* Choice of Page Sizes (Until A2 Size)

* Copy and Paste between templates

More Functions And Graphics

1. Many more Objects from QSP Reports

Quartile Bar, Floating Bar, Goal Outputs

Individual Student Report and Progress

Scatter Plot, Simple Statistics Outputs

2. Moving Graphic Outputs (Using XML)

3. 3 Dimensional Outputs

What CRESST Can Help You?

1. Database Management

Data Cleaning from Many other Sources

(DBF, Excel, MDB, Oracle, Informix, DB2)

Summarizing (aggregation, disaggregation)

2. Designing Report Cards

Supported by Professional Graphics Designer

3. Posting Report Cards

Web Based or Paper Outputs

Who You can Contact?

Joan Herman

Co-Director of CRESST

herman@cse.ucla.edu