REL Northeast and Islands Event: The “Long Now”: Local Data in an Era of State Longitudinal Data Systems

Date: April 30, 2014 12:00pm

Location: Virtual

Summary: REL Northeast and Islands is hosting a webinar on the potential and traps of longitudinal data systems. It will discuss meeting FERPA requirements and how to create secure, private, and agile databases that require minimum capital investment and humanpower to maintain. Dr. Neal Gibson, Director of the Arkansas Research Center, will be presenting and Paul Schlichtman, District Coordinator for Research, Testing, and Assessment at Lowell (MA) Public Schools, will provide a response.

This Bridge Event is part of a series hosted by the Urban School Improvement Alliance. These webinars are designed to help build capacity among local education agency members to use and access data to address questions around improving low-performing schools. It is designed for district and school leaders across the Northeast and Islands Region and the United States, as well as state-level officials who manage or advise districts on the use of state and local longitudinal databases.

Speakers:

Featured Presenter:

Neal Gibson, Director, Arkansas Research Center

Discussant:

Paul Schlichtman, District Coordinator for Research, Testing, and Assessment, Lowell Public Schools

Moderators:

Andrew Seager, USIA Alliance Facilitator, REL-NEI
Anthony Petrosino, USIA Alliance Researcher, REL-NEI
Dave Phillips, USIA Alliance Researcher, REL-NEI