The College Readiness Data Catalog Tool: User Guide

Title:	The College Readiness Data Catalog Tool: User Guide
Description:	The College Readiness Data Catalog Tool and User Guide enable states, districts and other educational entities to assess the presence of college readiness indicators in extant data sets and identify gaps that may present challenges in developing future indicator systems. The College Readiness Data Catalog tool is a flexible Excel workbook that provides a shell for organizing and tracking student data relevant for measuring college readiness. The user guide also includes a sample data catalog summary report and a template for a data catalog summary report. Created by REL Northeast and Islands for the US Virgin Islands College and Career Readiness Research Alliance, the tool may be used by any educational organization to determine whether it has sufficient data to study college readiness indicators.
Online Availability:	Download, view and print the report as a pdf file. (327KB) Download the Excel workbook (344KB)
Cover Date:	September 2014
Web Release:	September 24, 2014
Publication #:	REL 2014042
Center/Program:	REL
Associated Centers:	NCEE
Authors:	Sheila M. Rodriguez: Education Development Center, Inc.; Angela Estacion: Quill Research Associates, LLC
Type of Product:	Tools
Keywords:	College Preparation Data Interpretation Data Use School Readiness • evaluation • measures Students • transition to college Transition To College
Questions:	For questions about the content of this Tools, please contact: Amy Johnson.