Longitudinal lumbering
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K-12: longitudinal graduation rates
- Criticism of state-defined measures for No Child Left Behind Act (Hall, 2005)
- Growth in state database development
- Started with Texas and Florida in 1990s
- Needed for any growth-like measures in achievement
- National Governors Association 2005 compact on graduation rates
- Will follow students longitudinally from first time in 9th grade
- Will remove out-transfers from and add in-transfers into 9th-grade cohort
- Will calculate "on-time" and lagged cohort graduation measures
Higher education: Unit records database
- Proposed as part of IPEDS modification (Cunningham & Milan, 2005)
- Pushed by Charles Miller, chair of Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education
- Would keep a rolling register of all higher-education students in the U.S.
- Tracked by individual identifiers
- Contain data on credits earned in which institution
- Contain financial-aid data