Grantee State - Nebraska
Project Director: Bob Beecham
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2007 Grant Application
Nebraska Statewide Longitudinal Data System
Start Date: 8/1/2007
End Date: 7/31/2010
Amount Awarded: $3,468,335
Project Application 
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Project Abstract 34 KB
Major Outcomes:
- Incorporation of Special Education and Curriculum segments to create a more comprehensive system: Creating a special education template, which will streamline the collection of special education data and make the data more accessible and useful by having it in the data warehouse with the other NDE data.
- Implementation of the Data Quality Curriculum: The DQC is in the final stages of development by a special task force of the National Forum on Education Statistics. The Data Quality Curriculum will improve the overall quality of data in our statewide system by providing training to local personnel in the creation, collection and reporting of education data.
- Creation of an electronic transcript facility: The Nebraska Transcript Project seeks to lay the groundwork for Nebraska students to submit their high school transcripts to postsecondary institutions electronically through a secure, web-based private provider. The system will also simplify the transfer of academic records between high schools when students move from school to school, and will allow postsecondary institutions to quickly update academic records for newly admitted students. In order to maximize this system's potential, we must first complete two key objectives:
- create a set of common course descriptors; and
- create a common electronic transcript for all Nebraska schools' voluntary adoption.
- Installation of a decision support system: (1) users who understand what the data mean and how they can be accessed with a (2) technology system (hardware, software, and user interfaces) that manipulates (3) a data system (integrating data from multiple sources) explicitly for the purposes of (4) a decision making system (user-driven within an organization.
- Supplementing existing training with the addition of staff at the educational service units: The grant program will support expansion of the ESU training for:
- Assignment and maintenance of the NDE Student ID;
- Submission of data electronically to the data warehouse;
- Implementation of the Data Quality Curriculum; and
- Stakeholder training.
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