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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED335810 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Proceedings for the Annual Conference on the
Management of Federal/State Data Systems (5th, Crystal
City, Virginia, March 25-27, 1991).
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 343 p.
ABSTRACT: This conference was held to enhance communication
between the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and
State education agency staffs, and to furnish information
and technical assistance to State agencies in the areas of
data management and improvement of data reliability,
validity, and comparability. Abstracts of presentations
include the following topics: changing criteria for
evaluation of special education and implications on data
collection; summary of the reauthorization of the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the impact
on data participating students, staff, project
implementation, and outcomes, besides providing conclusions
and recommendations. (JDD) National Clearinghouse for
Professions in Special Education; the Cooperative Education
Data Collection and Reporting Standards of the National
Center for Education Statistics; Westat technical
assistance activities; federal verification procedures; the
OSEP vision for children with disabilities; collection of
exiting data; educational placement trends; trends in
identification rates by race, ethnicityl, gender, and
urbanicity; and OSEP processing of child count data for the
distribution of funds. The proceedings document also
includes descriptions of State special education data
systems, data report forms for the 1990-91 school year,
information on traumatic brain injury or head injuries, a
form used in the Personnel Mapping Project, and the
executive summary from "A Guide to Improving the National
Education Data System." (JDD)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Classification-; Data-Analysis; Elementary
Secondary-Education; Federal-Aid; Federal-Programs;
Handicap Identification; Program-Evaluation;
School-Personnel; Special-Education-Teachers;
State-Programs; Technical Assistance; Trend-Analysis
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Data-Collection; *Disabilities-;
*Enrollment-Rate; *Federal-State-Relationship; *Statistical
Data; *Student-Placement
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