This guide is designed to inform school directors about the value of a data dashboard and to provide information on how districts can create a data dashboard for school directors. A data dashboard is a tool for viewing and analyzing student achievement and performance data. Key data for monitoring student achievement and directing policy level…

The Management Information System (MIS) of the Washington State system of community colleges was designed to be responsive to legislative and district requests for information and to enhance the State Board's capabilities to manage the community college system and integrate its budgeting and planning processes. The MIS consists of seven…

A review of the data processing operations used by the Tacoma, Washington School District to process its student records is presented. The first section of the paper provides some pertinent statistics about the district's student population and its hardware, software, and computer personnel. Next, a brief review of the results of a computer-usage…