Final ISES Data Past Due

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS MESSAGE TO ALL DISTRICT STAFF WORKING IN WSLS or ISES

The deadline for the Fall 2006 ISES data collection was November 22, 2006. Your district's data is past due. As of 10 am, November 24 your district still had outstanding errors that are preventing your district from submitting your data to DPI.

For the next few days your district will continue to have an opportunity to review and revise your ISES data on-line. The current ISES collection will close with little or no warning, so please ensure that any district data errors are corrected as soon as possible. The majority of districts have 0 to 20 error messages remaining. If your district has many errors (about 30 districts have over 100 errors each) then refer to http://dpi.wi.gov/lbstat/isesfaq6.html for some possible consequences of common errors.

If your district does not correct errors, then DPI may estimate certain data using data available from other collections or other records in order to move the ISES collection process towards completion. The process used will be similar to the one used last spring. Estimation may generate data which is not representative of your district and is not the preferred solution to filling data gaps.

Complete and accurate ISES data are critical to making reliable accountability decisions. Graduation and attendance rates for all students are evaluated at the school and district levels, and used to determine whether or not schools and districts are meeting the state defined criteria as part of adequate yearly progress (AYP). Incomplete or inaccurate ISES data could lead to identification for improvement. For more information about AYP and the graduation and attendance requirements see: http://dpi.wi.gov/oea/acct_sch.html#annualreview.

Your continued cooperation is appreciated. We recognize the difficulty of this task. Please contact the WSLS/ISES helpdesk if you have questions or concerns, via phone, 800-507-5744, or via the online Help Desk Expert tool, http://dpi.wi.gov/lbstat/helptool.html.

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Submit questions, comments, and suggestions about the WSLS or ISES to dpistats@dpi.wi.gov or call 1-800-507-5744.

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Last updated on 2/28/2008 7:56:14 AM