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Author Archives: Patti Schank
State of the States: Status of IDEA Early Childhood Data Systems
Conference: NCES STATS-DC Date: August 2022 Presenter: Nancy Perez, Mary Anketell, Emily Hackleman, Kathy Hebbeler This poster reports responses for 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico on a survey of Part C/619 data systems in 2021. We reported on the national status, by program, on 11 key indicators of a high-quality, IDEA state data system. […]
Understanding Functional Skills: Background for the COS Process
This resource helps teams think about measuring a child’s use and integration of functional skills to participate in their everyday routines. This resource will help teams further their understanding of the following questions: What makes a skill functional? How does context help align functional skills with each of the three outcomes? How do teams assess […]
Aligning a Child’s Functional Skills with the Breadth of the Three Child Outcomes
This resource supports high-quality Child Outcomes Summary (COS) ratings by helping teams connect their observations of children’s functional skills and behaviors with the three child outcomes. Effectively aligning functional skills and outcomes will help Part C early intervention and Part B, Section 619 preschool special education program teams improve their outcome measurement. Aligning a Child’s […]
State of the States: Changes in IDEA Early Childhood Data Systems from 2013 to 2021
Conference: OSEP Leadership Conference Date: July 2022 Presenter: Nancy Perez, Betsy Mercier, and Kathy Hebbeler This poster reports responses for 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico on changes in Part C/619 data systems from 2013 to 2021, and changes in data systems in response to COVID-19. Most states added at least 1 indicator of a […]
Understanding IDEA Family Outcomes: FFY 2019 Data
Conference: OSEP Leadership Conference Date: July 2022 Presenter: Haidee Bernstein, Nicholas Ortiz, Tony Ruggiero In this virtual poster presentation from the 2022 OSEP Leadership Conference, DaSy and ECTA staff addressed how States are meeting the OSEP Federal requirements around Part C family outcomes by including information about the State approaches to collecting data, measuring response […]
Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education State Data Systems: Current Status and Changes between 2013 and 2021
Conference: National Research Conference on Early Childhood (NRCEC) Date: June 2022 Presenters: Nancy Perez, Kathleen Hebbeler, Grace Kelley, Cornelia Taylor This poster reports responses for 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico on changes in Part C/619 data systems from 2013 to 2021, and changes in data systems in response to COVID-19. Most states added at […]
Data is a key resource in developing equitable pre-K systems
The Early Childhood Data Collaborative at Child Trends—with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—is developing a Pre-K Data Equity Framework (Framework) to improve the availability of actionable data. A data framework is a tool that can help pre-K decision makers identify, organize, and connect different types of data into a unified information data […]
Getting Started: Where Does Your Agency’s Existing Data Governance Live?
You can’t have data quality without data governance. And data governance is complex and complicated—but it doesn’t have to be this way.
Tools for Improving Child Find
Tools designed by DaSy and ECTA to support the collection, review, and improvement of child find systems including 618 data, including the OSEP Part B 619 Child Find Self-Assessment (CFSA), OSEP Part C Child Find Self-Assessment (CFSA), Part C Child Find Funnel Chart Tool, Identifying Meaningful Differences in Child Find Calculator, and Contributing Factor Tool.