Data Collection

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• School Interoperability Framework (SIF)

  SIF allows districts to directedly transmit data from their student information system to some applications.

• Vendor Information

  The purpose of this page is to provide student information system (SIS) vendors with information on Performance Office Data collections.

• About the Collection: Noncertified Staff Collection

  CSDE uses the Noncertified Staff application to collect para-professional full-time equivalent (FTE) data in nine instructional and eleven non-instructional categories.

• About the Collection: Directory Manager

  DM is the official listing of all districts, schools and other educational facilities. DM is used to manage users and their roles for all Portal Applications.

• About the Collection: CT-SEDS Referral and Evaluation (previously Evaluation Timelines)

  Evaluation Timelines collects data that are used to monitor compliance to the federal timeline regarding initial evaluations and eligibility determination for special education and related services.

• About the Collection: ED165 - Connecticut School Data Report 

  The ED165: Connecticut School Data Report is used to collect a wide variety of data elements at the school-level for state and federal reporting.

• About the Collection: ED204

  The ED204: Title I Part D Neglected and Delinquent Evaluation Report is used to collect data on student participation and academic outcomes from the prior school year. Only districts that receive Title I Part D funds are required to complete this form.

• Special Education Data Collections Help Site

  This site is dedicated to helping you understand all the data elements and important processes within each of the data collections associated with special education data.

• About the Collection: Due Process Hearing Requests - Resolution Meetings

  This application, housed within SEDAC, is used to collect data regarding due process hearings and the results of each resolution meeting.

• About the Collection: Kindergarten Entrance Inventory (KEI)

  The Fall Kindergarten Entrance Inventory was designed to provide a statewide snapshot of the skills students demonstrate, based on teachers' observations, at the beginning of the kindergarten year.

• About the Collection: CT-SEDS Restraint & Seclusion Help Site

  The CT-SEDS Restraint and Seclusion database collects compliance data that identifies the frequency of use of physical restraint and/or seclusion and specifies whether the use of such seclusion was in accordance with an individualized education program (IEP) or whether the use of physical restraint or seclusion was an emergency.

• About the Collection: TCS

  The Teacher-Course-Student (TCS) application collects student, teacher and course data. Analyses of TCS data can greatly inform school and district strategists to increase the college and career readiness of all learners. This data allows districts to make informed decisions about the current state of instruction and learning as well as the ways in which both can be improved, monitored and shared.

• About the Collection: PSIS

  The Connecticut State Department of Education uses the Public School Information System (PSIS) to collect data regarding student enrollment throughout the state of Connecticut.

• About the Collection: Assessment Accommodations

  As a result of the administration of the Connecticut Statewide Summative Assessments, there are several data collections that are used to collect Accommodation information for the Smarter Balanced Assessments, the NGSS Science Test and the Connecticut SAT School Day.

• About the Collection: English Language Proficiency (ELP) Assessment Participation Exceptions

  Domain exemptions are available for students who are dually identified as English learners/multilingual learners (ELs/MLs) with an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or a Section 504 Plan.