Re: [seul-edu] Collecting Assessments at District Level

[Alan Chen <alan@digikata.com>]

I would be interested in the type of data that you collect. My company,
Digikata is currently assembling a proposal for a US. Dept. of Education
Phase II SBIR to develop an Open Source educational "information appliance"
which would handle data along the lines of what you're describing.  I'm 
always looking for concrete examples of what assessment data is collected by
schools.  What type of analysis tools would you be looking for?

BTW, you're input will likely go into the proposal (without your name or school
attached, unless you want attribution).

Cheers,
- alan


On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:37:42AM -0500, Stephen Braunius 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
> 
> 

-- 
Alan Chen
Digikata LLC
http://digikata.com