Texas also has a comprehensive longitudinal data system with
unique student identifiers in place, making high school outcomes and improvement more measurable and ultimately more effective.
For example, all states except California had
unique student identifiers in 2011; thirty - five had unique teacher identifiers that allowed linking teachers to students.
The state has
assigned unique student identifiers that connect student data across key databases across years, and it has the capacity to match student test records from year to year in order to measure student academic growth.
The data set includes
a unique student identifier, which allows me to follow the progress of each student over time and to determine which students have been retained.
Prior to 2002, few states had
unique student identifiers to track students across time and across school districts, and annual testing in consecutive grades, which shows how student achievement changes over the course of a year, was not mandated.
Perhaps the most profound advance since 2010 is that individual achievement and attainment records for every subject are saved (with elaborate safeguards) in cyberspace and secure state databases, where «
unique student identifier» numbers make it possible for data to be readily aggregated without revealing individual identity and for analysts to investigate things like learning gains by pupils in various schools and circumstances.
The data is clearly personally identifiable even though each student is given
a unique student identifier.
A USI is
a unique student identifier.
From 1 January 2015, students undertaking nationally accredited training with RAV (i.e. enrolling into VET courses) will need to set up
a Unique Student Identifier (USI) and provide this to Administration via email.