1. Data Governance and the Ohio Educational Research Center (OERC)
25th Annual STATS-DC 2012 Data Conference
July 13, 2012
Matthew Danzuso Heather Boughton
Ohio Department of Education
Office of Data Quality & Governance

2. Current Data Systems P12 Data System (EMIS)
Higher Education Data System (HEI)
Multiple, unique preschool systems
Workforce Data

3. Current Data Governance Structure
Data governance varies by state agency
Ohio Department of Education
Strengths: Embedded structure
Weaknesses: Ad hoc policies/practices

4. State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS)
Since 2006, Ohio has received 4 SLDS grants
Goals:
Improve data quality
Develop a P-20 Data Warehouse

5. Ohio Education Research Center (OERC)
Established in Ohio’s Race to the Top Application [Area A(3)]
RttT Funding Provides for:
Initial third party management
Seed money for research grants related to RttT priority areas
Support for research and communications
Annual conference

6. Ohio Education Research Center (OERC)
Grant awarded in March 2012
Consortium of six Ohio universities and four Ohio organizations
Goals Include:
Develop a coherent research agenda
Conduct research related to RttT

7. SLDS & OERC Impact Key Questions
How has the development of the SLDS and the OERC impacted our data policies & practices?
i.e., What do we need to do differently to make these projects work?

8. SLDS & OERC Impact Data Sharing Policies & Practices
“Understanding Ohio’s MOU” Document
Adapting Ohio’s MOU to the OERC

9. SLDS & OERC Impact

10. SLDS & OERC Impact

11. SLDS & OERC Impact OERC-Specific Updates to Standard MOU
Third Party Data Sharing
Review Process
Data Access
Merging multiple data sources

12. SLDS & OERC Impact Internal Organizational Changes
Policy & Research Office
Data Quality & Governance
Center-Level Data Management

13. SLDS & OERC Impact Cross-Agency Changes Inter-Agency Communication
Developing P-20 MOU for future use with OERC
P-20 Data Governance

14. P-20 Repository and Data Governance Project Status
Ohio’s P-20 SLDS Repository is currently being built. It is expected to be completed June 30, 2013.
ODE and BOR have started discussing Data Governance Plan.
Other Agencies are being brought into Data Governance work.
Ohio bringing in SST to help construct the data governance structure and process.

15. P-20 Data Governance Overview

16. Evolving Data Governance Model
Implementation
Escalation
Policy Council
Research Agenda Committee
Data Governance Team (SLDS Technology Committee)
ODE and OBR
Communication

17. P-20 Requests Process

18. SLDS & OERC Impact Focused research agenda “State of Ohio” perspective
Effective and efficient sharing of data and research findings