User's Guide
Other resources available at on our website (www.infoworks.ride.uri.edu)
are:
- Commissioner McWalters’s
annual State of Education Addresses
- Technical Paper on the RI
Statistically Generated Model
- SALT Survey Results for
2002, 2000, 1998, 1999 (Survey was not administered in 2001)
- Information Works! 2002,
2001, 2000,
1999, 1998
- Technical bulletins on Learning
Support Indicators and School Performance Categories
- Hotlinks to:
1. extensive In$ite
financial information
2.
SALT visit school reports and
3. resources such as the RI
Department of Education home page, the
RIEDX Web site which has public
discussions, forums, resources and opportunities for RI school
communities and the 2001 ESEA legislation.
The principal sources of the data for Information Works! are:
- State assessments – standardized student achievement
tests administered by the State Assessment Program
- SALT Surveys – school-level data from students,
teachers, parents and administrators about classroom practice,
school climate, expectations, and much more
- Basic school-level statistics – school enrollment,
demographic make up, socio-economic status, absenteeism,
suspensions, etc. collected throughout the year by RIDE
- Tax and income statistics – from the state Department
of Administration’s Office of Municipal Affairs
- In$ite financial data – school-level expenditure data
- Form 31 financial information – districts’ revenue
and expenditure information submitted to the state through Form
31 provide this year’s revenue information at the district
level.
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