Collecting and Reporting Special Education Data in Michigan

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Collecting and Reporting Special Education Data
in Michigan

• Michigan Educational Research Association Fall
  Conference
• Presented by
• Allan G Knapp, PhD
• December 13, 2007

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Acronyms Galore

• OSEP Federal Office of Special Education
  Programs
• IDEA Legislation Individuals with
  Disabilities Education Act
• OSE/EIS State Office of Special Education and
  Early Intervention Services

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More Acronyms

• MICIS Michigan Compliance Information System
  (data for Special Education)
• SRSD Single Record Student Database (data for
  whole state)
• IIS Interagency Information Systems (grantee
  for training)
• ECS Enterprises Computing Services (grantee for
  software)

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Even More Acronyms

• IEP Individual Education Plan
• The following are the same thing
• ISD Intermediate School District
• RESA Regional Educational Service Area
• LEA Local Educational Agency
• (PSAs are considered to be LEAs)

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Brief History of MICIS

• Last century Local districts send data to
  state state sends counts to feds everyone is
  happy
• 2001 MICIS used to collect December count
  Special Ed data
• 2002 Feds rank the states
• 2003 State ranks the districts everyone is
  unhappy

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Data Sources Chart
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Timeliness and Accuracy Addressed by MICIS
Periodic Count

• 1. Do all records satisfy the Business Rules?
• 2. Does each record have a Unique Identifier?
• 3. Is there an unduplicated count?
• 4. Does the district CERTIFY their count on time?
• 5a. Are all students recorded in the right
  categories?
• 5b. Do all data look reasonable?
• 6. Are the data used?

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MICIS Periodic Count Data Flow
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MICIS Resources

• 1. Special Ed Technical Manual
• 2. Early On Data Dictionary
• 3. Help Desk phone and email
• 4. Referent Groups (Periodic Count, Daily Users)
• 5. Submission Manuals and Tutorials
• 6. Detail Reports, Summary Portraits, Trend
  Charts
• 7. Annual Enhancement Cycle

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View of www.mi-iis.com
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Summary count Data Portraitswww.micis.org
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Student Level Reports (User ID and Password
needed)
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Trend Charts
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Future Plans and Dreams

• Continuous Improvement
• Dashboards
• Display with other state data
• AYP
• Report Card
• Link through state UIC to OEAA data for Special
  Ed results