Guide for Accessing Educational Data

Accessing Educational Data

The California Department of Education (CDE) Website

http://www.cde.ca.gov/
California State Department of Education
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/
CDE Testing & Accountability index page - test score information
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/
CDE Data & Statistics index page - try DataQuest or Ed-Data

DataQuest - state/county/district/school/SELPA school performance, test scores, demographics, staffing (including types of credentials and experience), conduct, technology
Ed-Data - state/county/district/school profiles (general info, students, staffing), financial reports, test scores - can perform comparisons

http://inet2.cde.ca.gov/dataresourceguide/
CDE Data Resource Guide - helps you find what you are looking for

Other Sources for Educational Data

http://www.jftk-ca.org/
Just for the Kids - a database of demographics and test scores that allows comparison of schools by various attributes and examples of learning activities that increase achievement - very useful for school improvement activities

How To Guide for Just for the Kids (PDF format)

http://www.edsource.org/
EdSource - a wealth of information and data about California schools
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education.html
Census Bureau Education data - educational attainment, school costs & enrollment (see http://www.census.gov/govs/www/school.html for school finance data)
http://www.schooldatadirect.org/
School Data Direct - data for school comparisons across the US
http://www.icpsr.org/IAED/studies.html
International Archive of Education Data - results of many survey-based studies plus basic data (K-12 and postsecondary)
http://notebook.lausd.net/portal/page?_pageid=33,131762&_dad=ptl&_schema=PTL_EP
LAUSD Planning Assessment and Research office
http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/Main_Offices/Research/
Long Beach Unified research office
http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/landing.jhtml
Educational research and statistics at the Federal level
http://ies.ed.gov/ncser/
National Center for Special Education Research
http://research.nichcy.org/researchtostart.asp
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities

Links to Educational Research Articles and Reports

http://www.eric.ed.gov/
ERIC Online (not through the CSUDH library)
http://www.nwrel.org/request/index.php
Northwest Regional Laboratory - links to useful research articles
http://www.edexcellence.net/doc/GradingtheSystems.pdf
Comparison of K-12 accountability (testing) systems in 30 states
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/
What Works Clearinghouse, evidence for what works in teaching and learning
http://ies.ed.gov/ncser/
National Center for Special Education Research
http://research.nichcy.org/researchtostart.asp
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities

Online Resources for Statistics

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html
The Statistics Homepage - like an electronic book on statistics
http://Statpages.org
Links to statistical test and information online
http://pages.infinit.net/rlevesqu/spss.htm
List of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) information links

Online Resources for Qualitative Research (including Action Research)

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc/pract_res.html
Links to qualitative research explanations, examples
http://www.qualitativeresearch.uga.edu/QualPage/
All about qualitative research, including links to online journals
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html
Action Research Resources
http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/sod/car/carhomepage.html
Classroom Action Research homepage

This page was created for faculty and students in the College of Education at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Its primary purpose is to serve as a guide when accessing the data posted by the California Department of Education and to provide links to other sources of educational data and research-related websites. Suggestions? Comments? Email Dr. Farah Fisher at ffisher@csudh.edu.

Page created by F. Fisher at CSU Dominguez Hills. Last update 1/09. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on unofficial pages of California State University, Dominguez Hills faculty, staff or students are strictly those of the page authors. The content of these pages has not been reviewed or approved by California State University, Dominguez Hills.