pDAT

PEARL Data Warehouse

Governing Board

Paradise Valley Unified School District

Bev Kilgore
Technology Department
February 2007
 Herding the Cats
NCLB - data, data, everywhere

pDAT - critical data in one online location (portal)

Critical data - student achievement, demographics, etc.

Different Users - Different Data Views

PrincipałCOA - district view of all students

Reading/Math Specialists - school view of all students

Department Heads - school view of all students

Teacher - classroom view of students

 Data Types
AIMS

Grades

SAMs (Standard Aligned Measures)

TerraNova and SAT-9

Demographics (gender, grade, ethnicity, etc.)

Schedules

Testing - Honors, ELL, Special Ed, etc.

Some 30 different data tables from 7 different software systems with

multiple field types

Data is entered by over 12 different personnel classifications and every

student logs in under their username and password to complete online
SAM’s

Data, data, everywhere

 Partnership
Technology Department, working with the
Curriculum and Assessment Departments,
spearheaded a unique partnership between
PVUSD and Arizona State University

ASU was to provide additional programming,

database management and statistical resources

The Technology Department will manage the

project over multiple phases and years
 Phases
First Phase - identification and synchronization
of major data sources in an online environment

Second Phase - begin to provide access to the

data through a common portal for multiple
user types

Third Phase - refinement of the portal,

cleansing of data, incorporation of additional
data sources
 Second Phase

In the fall of 2006, viewing of the data by different user

types was started

Teacher - Julie Baumgartner - Greenway Math Teacher

Principal - Cara Herkamp - PVHS

COA - Lorraine Hendershott - LA Director

Teacher View

Julie Baumgartner
Teacher - Roster - ID#/username/password
Teacher - Roster - Student Achievement
Teacher - SAM’s - Item by Class and
Student
Teacher - SAM’s - Concept
Teacher - SAM’s - Psychometric
Reports
Item Difficulty
Complete Analyses
Item Characteristic Curve
Online Statistical Definitions
Principal View

Cara Herkamp
Principal View - Incoming 8th
Graders - AIMS - VVMS - Girls
Results Can be Sorted - High/Low -
Placement and Help
Principal - Student Grades in a
Teacher’s Class
Principal - Query the School
Achievement
Principal - School Graphics
Principal - SAT/Terra Nova for a
Teacher’s Students
Principal - Drill deeper on any Student
 District
Administrator View

Lorraine Hendershott
District Grades of Native American
Students - compliance and funding

What use to require contacting hundreds of teachers

throughout the district, is now accomplished in a
matter of minutes.
District View of Grades based on ELL status
Very Advanced Querying Capability

Grades
06-07
Male
Asian
Intermediate ELL

Monitoring sub-
groups for
achievement is
important for
instruction and
compliance
Lots of Work Remaining

Continually clean the data

Improve navigation and use

Identify additional data sources

Build a culture of “Quality Data”

Thank You.....