Data Collection

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• FAQ

  FAQ pertaining to Performance Office data collections.

• Timely and Accurate Information

  Current and prior year Timely and Accurate information for Performance Office Data Collections.

• Data Collection Applications

  List of Performance Office Data Collection Applications with link to Help Sites.

• About the Collection: Noncertified Staff Collection

  CSDE uses the Noncertified Staff application to collect para-professional full-time equivalent (FTE) data in nine instructional and eleven non-instructional categories.

• About the Application: PPR Narratives

  The Profile and Performance Report (PPR) Narratives are collected from all public school districts and are designed to collect information about school district policies and activities in several areas.

• Vendor Information

  The purpose of this page is to provide student information system (SIS) vendors with information on Performance Office Data collections.

• About the Collection: ED166 Student Disciplinary Offense Data Collection 

  The ED166 is the Student Disciplinary Offense Data Collection. Districts are required to submit specific incidents to CSDE annually. CSDE then uses this data to satisfy various federal mandates.

• Data Privacy and Security

  The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) treats data confidentiality and the privacy of student educational records very seriously. It complies with all federal laws including Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), state statutes, and guidelines to protect confidential data.

• Special Education Data Collections Help Site

  This site is dedicated to helping you understand all the data elements and important processes within each of the data collections associated with special education data.

• About the Collection: Directory Manager

  DM is the official listing of all districts, schools and other educational facilities. DM is used to manage users and their roles for all Portal Applications.

• About the Collection: Due Process Hearing Requests - Resolution Meetings

  This application, housed within SEDAC, is used to collect data regarding due process hearings and the results of each resolution meeting.

• School Interoperability Framework (SIF)

  SIF allows districts to directedly transmit data from their student information system to some applications.

• About the Collection: Kindergarten Entrance Inventory (KEI)

  The Fall Kindergarten Entrance Inventory was designed to provide a statewide snapshot of the skills students demonstrate, based on teachers' observations, at the beginning of the kindergarten year.

• About the Collection: CT-SEDS Restraint & Seclusion Help Site

  The CT-SEDS Restraint and Seclusion database collects compliance data that identifies the frequency of use of physical restraint and/or seclusion and specifies whether the use of such seclusion was in accordance with an individualized education program (IEP) or whether the use of physical restraint or seclusion was an emergency.

• About the Collection: Appeals Entry

  The collection of appeals for the Smarter Balanced Assessment, NGSS Science (including the Connecticut Alternate Science) and the Connecticut Alternate Assessment.