Data Managers
Introduction
Longitudinal data - high-quality data about how individual students perform over time- enable education stakeholders to ask sophisticated questions that get at the heart of student success. This translates to multiple specific actions by data managers to support data-driven decision making. The role of the data manager is changing and critical responsibilities now include activities such as working closely with program staff to identify and define the necessary data elements, ensuring interoperability between diverse systems, and ensuring student privacy protection while also enabling data access.
The Suggested Reading List to the right provides several resources that are particularly relevant to policymakers and their role building, using, and sustaining longitudinal data systems. Other suggested ways of navigating the library include:
- Select your state in the Browse by State tool to view resources pertaining to your state specifically.
- As you come across topics that you are interested in learning more about, search by keywords in Search Resources or by topic in Browse by Topic to get a better national picture.
- If you know your state is working hard to develop the ten essential elements and you’re struggling with particular elements, use the Browse by 10 Essential Elements to find resources targeted at specific elements.