Contact Person: David Burnett
South Carolina FY 2003
Automation Feasibility Study Task Order: $79,923
Development of a fully attributed data model to meet the teacher and paraprofessional data collection and reporting requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
The South Carolina Department of Education proposes to develop a fully attributed data model to enable the agency, or any other state department of education, to design implementation models to meet the teacher and paraprofessional data collection and reporting requirements of NCLB. The proposed data model will be developed using information engineering notation and will result in a fully attributed entity relationship diagram (ERD) for professional and paraprofessional data and a means to interface to statewide student record systems.
This project is needed because with the new NCLB legislation--e.g., new data elements like teacher quality have come to the fore as a focus of education data. Before these requirements can be met, South Carolina’s two main existing sources of data, the PCS system and the SASIxp student records system, must be interfaced to provide the necessary measures at the state level. In addition to this interface, additional data elements must be identified and collected. The best tool available to accomplish these tasks is the ERD provided by data modeling.
The South Carolina department of education has done much previous work with relation to data modeling and maintaining detailed statewide data on teachers and other professional staff, and this project will go a long way towards ensuring that that quality of data is maintained not just on the state level, but on the federal level as well.
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