Grantee State - Connecticut
Project Director: Mark Vocca
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2009 Grant Application
Connecticut Department 0f Education Longitudinal Data System
Start Date: 8/3/2009
End Date: 8/2/2012
Amount Awarded: $2,937,416
Project Application 
4.2 MB
Project Abstract 100 KB
Major Outcomes:
- Student-schedule-staff module: track course taking patterns for monitoring and evaluation purposes, and to more efficiently determine high qualified teacher status for NCLB.
- Establish a statewide course code taxonomy using NCES course code standards.
- Develop a vertical SIF component to facilitate the data transfer process between the SEA and LEA's student information systems.
- Create a student-schedule-staff module and data mart that contains student demographic and assessment results data, course type and associated teacher data such as age, years of experience, degree held, certification type, and teacher preparation program attended.
- Enhancement of secure data dissemination for SEA and LEA decision support.
- Expansion Activity: Student-schedule-staff module.
- Establish a statewide course code taxonomy using NCES course code standards and develop intermediary application for course mapping.
- Develop a vertical SIF component to promote interoperability between the SEA and LEA: partnership with districts using the Powerschool® SIS.
- Create a Functional Requirements Document (FRD) for the Zone Integration Server (ZIS) installation and configuration, as well as the Powerschool® agent creation and/or integration.
- Specify a data model for course-taking and completion information.
- Work with pilot districts to install and configure a ZIS within their application hosting environment.
- Creation of student-schedule-staff module and data mart to store course taking and staff data.
- Data Mart Schema.
- Data Mart Specification.
- The Deployment of an Enterprise-wide Persistent Data Facility.
- The Deployment of an On-going Operation and Maintenance Strategy.
- Enhancement of secure and public dissemination of student-schedule-staff data mart.
2006 Grant Application
Connecticut Department 0f Education Longitudinal Data System
Start Date: 12/1/2005
End Date: 11/30/2009
Amount Awarded: $1,500,714
Project Application 21.5 MB
Project Abstract 122 KB
Major Outcomes:
- The specification and development of an enterprise-wide Persistent Data Storage Facility.
- The development of data marts, facing applications and decision support cubes used to disseminate data from the persistent data stores to the district, school, student, parent and public level.
- Provide training to LEA staff on the appropriate use of persistent data, decision support tools, identity management and password provisioning.
- A collaboration with the University of Connecticut Health Center, to develop a longitudinal research data warehouse, federating de-identified data from the Connecticut Departments of: Education; Children and Families; Public Health; and Mental Retardation.
- Develop SIF Zones and SIF agents to pilot horizontal and vertical reporting models(possible collaboration with other states).
- Develop a data dictionary to serve as a conclusive meta-library for elements collected on behalf of the department (possible collaboration with other states).
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