State Task Order Summaries - Vermont

Contact Person: Stacey Murdock

FY 2007

Vermont FY 2007
Task Order: $80,000
A Proposal to Enhance a Public Reporting Portal, School Performance Dashboards, and Data Quality Tests using Vermont’s Shared State and District Education Data Warehouse

This is a business analysis and development project intended to advance Vermont’s efforts to become a data-driven organization, improve data quality, and facilitate federal reporting. The project will create a set of role-related performance indicators (a user dashboard) for use by public school administrators and Vermont Department of Education (VDE) staff who provide technical support or grant funds to schools. The user dashboard will support the state’s Education Data Warehouse (EDW) and is expected to create a data environment that will allow school districts and VDE staff to make data-driven educational decisions. Specifically, the project is expected to allow VDE to: (1) target grant distribution to schools based on performance; (2) target school services appropriate to the needs of a school; and (3) allow school administrators to effectively monitor and adjust educational or school environment programs.

Project activities will include critical business analysis for developing actionable performance indicators that will be made available to school districts; report development necessary to access the data needed for the performance indicators; enhancement of a dynamic public reporting website; development of a dynamic report of performance indicators for VDE staff using state data; enhancement of the current quality assurance process to validate the data provided by VDE staff; and support for the design and implementation of an EDW object that provides quality tests of data providers.

The objectives of the project include:

• assisting Vermont school districts in evaluating the performance of their schools
• sharing public school data with the public in a flexible, user-friendly environment that protects the privacy of students
• providing VDE staff members who deliver technical support to schools and manage programs with performance indicators to aid them in their work
• improving the quality of data in the EDW and improving the quality of data received at the VDE
• involving the intended data users in all steps of the process and providing adequate training to achieve confidence in the use of this tool

Upon project completion, VDE staff will make themselves available to consult with other states interested in developing these types of indicators.

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