1. Demonstration: New Perspectives On School Report Cards Kyung-Sung Kim UCLA/CRESST Seoul National University of Education CRESST Conference Los Angeles, CA September 9, 2004

2. Who needs the School Report Cards?  State Department of Education  Local School Districts  Teachers  Parents  Anyone interested in the performance of local districts and schools

3.  Accountability Report Cards  School Level  District Level  State Level  Annual School Report Cards  School Level  District Level  Student Report Cards  Student Level Why School Report Cards?

4. What types of data you have?  AYP based on NCLB act (Student Performances, Participation Rate)  Student demographics (gender, ethnicity, LEP, NSLP)  Student outcomes (Dropout, Attendance, Graduation)  School/classroom Safety, Facilities and Other Unit- level Characteristics (Class size, budget per student, computers, Internet connection)  Teacher Characteristics (Experience, Credential, Subject specialty, demographics)  Other indicators as needed (special survey results, Safety, and local’s specific goals)

5. The Procedure of Report Cards Development Input Data Management Selecting Educational Indicators Gathering all existing information Making Report Cards Designing Report Cards Templates Creating Report Cards Output of Report Cards Web Posting Report Cards Publish paper based Report Cards

6. 1st Generation (Conventional Method) Utilizing MS/Word & Excel with OLE Collecting Information about Indicators Creating a Template by MS/Word Creating some Graphics by MS/Excel Linking those two files with OLE function Replicating for several schools

8. 2 nd Generation (Use of PDF Graphics and Builder) Utilizing a popular document format (DBF, Excel, MDB) Creating a Template by Graphics Designer Creating a program to change “Scalable Graphics” Making a builder to create multiple School Report Cards * Add and Modify School Information (Data Level) * Re-Building School Report Cards (Output)

11. 3rd Generation (SRC Authoring System) Simple Design of SRC Templates Choice of Object (Name of Modules) Choice of Location (by x & y Coordinations) Choice of Size (by points) Choice of Font and Its Size (by name & points) Choice of Scalable Output (PDF)

13. 4th Generation (I) (SRC Template Generator) Functions of Template Generator * Texts Input with or w/o DB link * Line and Box input * Graphics Input with or w/o DB link Dial, Thermometer, Vertical Bar, Horizontal Bar Odometer, Dummy Graphics, Line Graphs and many other Graphic Objects

14. 4th Generation (II) (SRC Template Generator) Management of Templates * Single Page * Multiple Pages * Choice of Page Sizes (Until A2 Size) * Copy and Paste between templates

20. More Functions And Graphics 1.Many more Objects from QSP Reports Quartile Bar, Floating Bar, Goal Outputs Individual Student Report and Progress Scatter Plot, Simple Statistics Outputs 2.Moving Graphic Outputs (Using XML) 3.3 Dimensional Outputs

21. What CRESST Can Help You? 1.Database Management Data Cleaning from Many other Sources (DBF, Excel, MDB, Oracle, Informix, DB2) Summarizing (aggregation, disaggregation) 2.Designing Report Cards Supported by Professional Graphics Designer 3.Posting Report Cards Web Based or Paper Outputs

22. Who You can Contact? Joan Herman Co-Director of CRESST herman@cse.ucla.edu