demonstration: new perspectives on school report cards kyung-sung kim ucla/cresst seoul national...
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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
