Grantee State - Pennsylvania
Project Director: Robert McGrath
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2009 Grant Application
Pennsylvania Information Management System (PIMS)
Start Date: 7/1/2009
End Date: 6/30/2012
Amount Awarded: $6,103,000
Project Application 
4.7 MB
Project Abstract 103 KB
Major Outcomes:
- Link PAsecureID and PIMS to Early Childhood Data Collection.
- Implement eTranscripts and Electronic Student Record Exchange.
- Continue Expansion of PIMS to Public Postsecondary Institutions.
- Assign Unique Staff Identifier to PK-12 Non-Certified Professional and Paraprofessional Staff and Teacher’s Aides.
- Develop Reporting for Superintendents, Principals, Teachers, Researchers, and Policy Makers.
- Formalize Training for LEA Data Administrators.
- Institutionalize LEA Data Analysis Capabilities.
- Create LEA Data Quality Cultures.
- Implement Data Access and Use Policy.
2006 Grant Application
Pennsylvania Information Management System (PIMS)
Start Date: 3/1/2006
End Date: 2/28/2010
Amount Awarded: $4,008,875
Project Application 8.8 MB
Project Abstract 119 KB
Major Outcomes:
Systems Components
- Unique state id.
- Enterprise data architecture: statewide unique student record management system that will fulfill the data standards managed in the metadata facility.
- Security and personalization: develop a SIF-enabled learning resource exchange. Assessment results will be managed in the data warehouse with reliable links to the state's academic standards and will enable future exchange of learning objects.
- Vertical reporting: vertical reporting system that would replace all current data collections.
- Data warehouse/marts: design and develop an initial data warehouse with data marts optimized to the four target audiences [Org Profiles, Class/Student Profiles, Research Access, EDEN Federal Report].
Policy and Implementation Components
- Research to improve student achievement: create a secure repository of unidentifiable longitudinal, record-level student data in a data warehouse to support authenticated access by policy makers, researchers and educators.
- Exchange of data K-12–HE: create synergy across its Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and its Office of Postsecondary and Higher Education by developing a common student level pK-16 identifier, giving Pennsylvania the ability to garner longitudinal data on students from early intervention and pK-16, through college and into the workforce. PDE also intends to participate in a multi-state effort to create a national transcript exchange.
- Reports to stakeholders: create a data warehouse and set of data marts to support four critical constituencies: 1) USED and EDEN; 2) Educational Stakeholders; 3) Researchers and Analysts; and (4) Legislators and General Public.
- Capacity to sustain: continue to expand its data systems awareness and capacity building initiatives, put in place the building blocks for LEA systems horizontal and vertical integration, and establish comprehensive communications, marketing and implementation plans.
- FERPA: build on the security infrastructure that will be provided by COSSA and ensure all appropriate data is available only to authorized, authenticated users.
- Evaluation criteria: Performance metrics and milestones tied to systems development and alignment, data quality and timeliness, teacher and administrator capacity building, stakeholder engagement and satisfaction, improved policy and decision making, and, ultimately, student performance will ensure the comprehensive communications, marketing and implementation plans have been effectively deployed.
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