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Past Exchange Summary Reports - Return to Past Exchange Summary Reports Initiating Agency: Cooperating Agencies: Dates of Exchange: Title of Exchange: As is the case in many other states, with the advent of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and state mandated accountability reporting, it has become apparent that Utah must begin assigning a unique statewide student identifier to all data being reported to the state from the district level. This is especially important as individual students are followed longitudinally for the purpose of accountability reporting and educational research. Such an ID would remain with he student for their entire stay within the Utah public education systems. Utah is planning on having its own SSID fully function by July 2005 for all data to be submitted to the state during the 2005-06 school year and beyond. The Utah State Office of Education reviewed the unique student identifier systems of a number of states and felt that both the design and the implementation of Oregon's SSID system matches most of Utah's requirements. A personnel exchange would allow Utah staff to see firsthand how Oregon manages unique statewide student identifiers and their integration with other statewide education data. Three staff from Utah visited Oregon. Utah staff were able to meet with Gary Ellwanger and several of his staff. Larry, his dba, walked us through the collection times for district and school information. He gave us the history behind the student identifier project. All of this information was incredibly useful. Heading down the statewide student identifier path is a difficult task. This trip has shaved some serious time from the development process. Utah Department of Education Contact: Randy Raphael, rraphael@usoe.k12.ut.us |
