[school-discuss] [Fwd: [seul-edu] Collecting Assessments at District Level]

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

I'm forwarding this message from Stephen Braunius with his permission.
Please include him in any replies you make.

Stephen Braunius <sbrauniu@zeeland.k12.mi.us> wrote:

> I continue to enjoy the discussions with this list.  Thank you all for
> continuing to look for ways to move linux into education.
>
> As a district, we are starting to collect a large amount of assessment
> data from the local level, the State level, and the National level
> (ITBS, PLAN, etc).  Currently I have a MySQL database set up that is
> integrated with Zope to serve up the data we are collecting.  The
> problem is that I don't know that much about database planning and am
> finding that it is difficult to scale this thing over time.
>
> Any suggestions on the formatting of a relational assessment database
> (i.e. table structures that deal with student data, test structures, and
> test data...almost a data warehouse concept?) or web enabled software
> options that are out there that allow for data entry, viewing,
> reporting, and charting?  I have checked the seul-edu list, freshmeat,
> and google.
>
> Some really neat projects that are similar to what I am looking for are
> the State of Washington and Massachusetts web education spaces.
> http://www.k12.wa.us -- look at the Ed Profile
> http://www.ves.ws/nsportal.html -- Virtual Education Space
>
>  From what I have seen, the above projects are commissioned at the State
> Level and are not publicly available packages.  Ideas?
>
> --
> Stephen Braunius
> Director of Instructional Technology
> Zeeland Public Schools - http://www.zeeland.k12.mi.us
> Zeeland, Michigan

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