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HiQ
Georgia Professional Standards Commission Online
Inventory System For NCLB Compliance
Title II Orientation October 4, 2006 Tom HallGA
Professional Standards Commission
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What is HiQ?

• HiQ is an online educator inventory
• system that
• Compares teaching assignment to teaching
  credentials to determine if an educator meets the
  federal definition of highly qualified
• Generates reports for the US Department of
  Education and all levels of the Georgia P-12
  school system (SEA, REA, LEA, and building-level)

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HiQ Data Sources

• Georgia Professional Standards Commissions
  Certification Information System (CIS)
• Georgia Department of Educations
  Certified/Classified Personnel Information (CPI)
  System
• Records linked through the educators SSN

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Certification Information System

• CIS reveals teaching credentials
• Continuously updated (transactional system)
• Includes the certificate fields, certificate
  level, tests passed, and ethics status

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Certified/Classified Personnel Information System

• CPI reveals teaching assignment
• Collected three times a year (HiQ uses Fall CPI)
• Includes a subject code, job code, and part of
  day for each educator in each building in each
  school system

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What is the data flow?

• HiQ is loaded/updated in January using the
  Georgia Department of Educations CPI data
  collected in October
• HiQ is continuously updated from the the Georgia
  Professional Standards Commissions Certification
  Information System (CIS) beginning in January
• School systems edit HiQ beginning in January to
  add HOUSSE and refine fuzzy data from CPI
• Data is frozen near the end of the school year

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Teaching Assignment Data

• CPI Subject Codes
• Some CPI subject codes are ambiguous to HiQ
• Ambiguous means no one-to-one alignment between
  a CPI subject code and a NCLB core academic area
• Example Subject code for Social Sciences this
  included classes in History, Geography,
  Economics, Civics

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Teaching Assignment Data

• CPI Job Codes
• Some CPI job codes are ambiguous to HiQ
• Ambiguous means a lack of clarity as to the
  grade level
• Examples P-12, EIP Teacher, Special
  Education Teacher

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Resolution of Ambiguity

• Recode!
• School systems edit data in HiQ to replace
  ambiguous subject and job codes with more
  specific HiQ codes without ambiguity
• CPI codes have improved over the last three
  years

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Sample Changes from CPI Coding to HiQ Coding
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Certification Data

• PSC Databases Certificates, Tests
• Alignment between Georgia certificates and NCLB
  core subjects
• Alignment between content tests and NCLB core
  subjects

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HiQ Program Brain

• Educators highly qualified status is
  determined by comparing
• CPI Subject Codes (edited to HiQ codes)
• CPI Job Codes (edited to HiQ codes)
• Certificates
• Content tests
• Georgia NCLB Implementation Guidelines

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Using HiQ

• HiQ is found on the PSCs web portal,
  www.gapsc.org
• Access requires an account
• Users may have view-only or edit capability
• Access may be restricted to a school building as
  well as to a school system

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www.gapsc.org - The Portal
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HiQ Main Page
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HiQ Main Page Detail
Locate an educator directly
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List educators by school building
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List educators by HiQ status

• Not HiQ
• HiQ
• Cannot Determine - check coding
• HiQ not applicable
• Corrected records

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List educators by type

• Teachers
• Paraprofessionals
• Long Term Subs

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HiQ Main Page Detail Selections Made
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HiQ Main Page Records List
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Navigation Page-to-page
HiQ Main Page Records List
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Print or Download
HiQ Records List

• Printable View - prints ALL rows on All pages of
  the list
• Download Records - generates a file suitable for
  opening in Excel

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Click SSN to See Detail
HiQ Records List
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Certificates Held and Tests Passed
HiQ Detail
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HiQ Detail Summary

• Name (SSN)
• HiQ status for each teaching assignment
• If subject/job codes are ambiguous , a list of
• possible code edits
• If not highly qualified, a list of certificates
  and
• tests needed to be considered highly
  qualified
• Certificates currently held
• Tests passed

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HiQ Detail Status

• What are the possible values for the HiQ status?
• Highly qualified
• Not highly qualified
• Cannot determine
• Not applicable
• Note for final report, the percent highly
  qualified is...

Highly qualified (Highly
qualified Not highly qualified Cannot
determine)
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HiQ Detail Status Example
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HiQ Detail Status Example
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Yearly HiQ Work Schedule

• January Editing First Becomes Available
• - Recoding Job Assignment Errors
• - Recoding Subject Errors
• June Editing Ends, Reports Compiled for USDE
• - Reports Include HiQ Percentages
• August Remediation Plans Completed
• - System Plans Add Up to State Plan
• for 100 Highly Qualified

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• For additional information
• Tom Hall
• tom.hall_at_gapsc.com
• [phone]
• For Login Accounts to www.gapsc.org
• support_at_gapsc.com