What is the VDC?
The Vermont Data Consortium (VDC) is a collaborative of supervisory unions/districts partnering with the Vermont Department of Education (DOE) and TetraData Corporation to deliver an Education Data Warehouse (EDW), data analysis tools and training for data-driven decision making for its members. The function of the VDC is to ensure that Vermont supervisory unions/districts have cost-effective, timely and accurate student and educational data available to address continuous school improvement as well as state and federal accountability and reporting requirements.
Click here for a VDC Brochure, a presentation about the VDC Organization and a VDC membership list.
What is the EDW?
The Education Data Warehouse (EDW) is a large, consolidated database with a set of analysis tools that allow users to access data from the system through a secure, internet connection. The EDW was built as a collaborative project between the VDC, the Vermont Department of Education (DOE) and the TetraData Corporation and first went online in October 2005. The EDW contains data submitted by Vermont schools to the DOE through the Student Census, Child Count, State Assessment system, Educator Census, Financial Stat report and other data collections. The EDW is the one place that all this data is consolidated in one system. In addition, the EDW allows VDC members to add additional local data such as student schedules, course grades, local demographics and local assessments to the system and relate it to the DOE data. Click here for a presentation about the EDW Analysis Suite (4MB).
To learn more about the VDC and the EDW, visit the FAQ page.
What's New?
VDC Annual Meeting, LDS/V-DEP Grant presentation and 2010-2011 Board of Directors
Thank you to all who were able to attend the VDC Annual Meeting on February 2. Meeting minutes are available here. Many thanks to Lisa Gauvin and Bob McNamara for spending the morning sharing information about the LDS/V-DEP Grant and answering a number of questions from the VDC Membership. Click here for a copy of their presentation. We also want to welcome our 2010 board of directors and officers:
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