Management Information Reporting 2000-01 Data Analysis for Special Education, English as a Second Language (ESL), Early Literacy Initiative (ELI), and Technology Integration Funding (TIF).

This report is intended to stimulate inquiry into the achievement of special groups of students in Alberta schools and model reporting to the public on these students, a traditionally weak area of school board Annual Education Results reports. The data in the report provide provincial level comparisons to data that may be compiled by school jurisdictions. The analysis identified some important findings, including: (1) incidence patterns of students with severe disabilities between the metropolitan boards and other jurisdictions demonstrate notable levels of variation; (2) the differential in the incidence of students coded as being gifted between the urban and other boards points to a potential need to review this program area; (3) data analysis of grade 3 and 6/9 student achievement test results for students with severe disabilities and those with mild/moderate disabling conditions may help identify strategies to strengthen intervention timing; (4) future directions are identified for clarifying Technology Integration Funding and Total Cost of Ownership data; and (5) the report and analysis provide some insight into how future Corporate Data Warehouse refinements might better meet the information and data analysis need of the Alberta Ministry and its stakeholders, especially with respect to more timely relational linkages between existing databases. The more important outcome of the report will be to stimulate reflection on optimizing learning for students in special programs. (Contains 15 figures and 30 tables.) (SLD)

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