BC Ministry of Education

Tracking Education Career Path and Employment Status of BC Teachers of Aboriginal Ancestry

The BC Ministry of Education commissioned Edudata to analyze trends in participation and graduation rates of Aboriginal students in teacher education programs at BC post-secondary institutions, as well as transition rates of these students to employment in the teaching profession and retention rates for those in the profession. Edudata will further explore key factors that influence individual Aboriginal students' experiences and decisions in their teacher training, transition to employment, and retention in the profession. This research study will result in a report outlining the study's findings and recommending strategies on how to increase the number of qualified Aboriginal teachers in the BC public education system and how to better collect data for tracking Aboriginal students in teacher education programs and transition to and retention in employment.

Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)

Population Health and Learning Observatory (PHLO): A Resource to Improve Health, Quality of Life, and Productivity for Canada
Edudata is partnering with the Centre for Health Services & Policy Research (CHSPR), the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), and the School of Occupational and Environmental Health Research (SOEH) in a multi-million dollar grant awarded by the CFI to help support cutting-edge research infrastructure in areas of strategic importance to Canada such as health, the environment, sustainable communities, and the new knowledge economy. PHLO was founded in 2004 to advance collaborative research, training, and data resources that will foster unique insights into human health, learning, and well-being.

Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network (CLLRNET)

Understanding the Ethics behind Secondary Research

The central goal behind CLLRNet is to improve the language and literacy skills of Canadian children. The broad objective is to understand the development of good language and literacy skills and apply this knowledge to facilitate the language, communication, and literacy programs and practices of Canada 's children. Edudata is partnering with CLLRNet to produce information packages for CLLRNet researchers and Research Ethics Boards (REBs), informing these groups of governmental and national funding agencies' policies surrounding secondary research. The information packages are intended to promote secondary research and support CLLRNet researchers' secondary research submissions to their REBs; as a national network, CLLRNet researchers hope to accomplish more than as individual investigators.

Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC)

German Institute for International Educational Research

School System Traits and Outcomes of Schooling in Germany and Canada (PISA 2000)

Edudata has partnered with the German Institute for International Educational Research on a project to compare the relationships between school systems and outcomes of K-12 schooling in Germany and Canada .

Howe Sound School District #48

Edudata Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) Cohort Reports

Edudata produced for Howe Sound a customized FSA Cohort Analysis Report package that included district and school-level reports. The reports looked at the FSA Reading, Writing, and Numeracy test achievement over time of students within the 2003 and 2004 Howe Sound FSA Cohorts and for sub-groups of male, female, and First Nations students.

Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)

Child and Youth Developmental Trajectories Research Unit's (CYDTRU's) Exploration of Normative Trajectories

HELP is working towards developing an understanding of how different environments in schools, families, and communities interact with biological predispositions in children, resulting in a diverse range of developmental trajectories. To this end, HELP has collected information on social, emotional, cognitive, communication, and physical development for almost 100% of BC's Kindergarten children using the Early Development Instrument (EDI). The purpose of this project is to track the subsequent educational trajectories of children who have been assessed using the EDI.

Early Development Instrument (EDI) Catalogue

Edudata is working closely with researchers from HELP to document and catalogue the variables that are used in the EDI. HELP has collected data from Kindergarten-age children using the EDI starting in 2000 in a variety of school districts around the province. Each year, additional school districts have become involved and currently all of the BC school districts have ties to this project. The EDI project aims to provide school districts and communities with information about their preschool population, specifically in five domains: physical health and well-being, social competence, emotional maturity, language and cognitive development, and communication skills and general knowledge.

Manitoba Department of Education and Training

Manitoba Education Data Catalogue

The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation (MCHP) wants to develop a knowledge repository to handle data, document research methods, and facilitate both internal communication and collaboration with other sites. The data include health care contacts, Vital Statistics and Census information, and education data from the Manitoba Department of Education, Training and Youth. Adding education data (enrollment, examination, reading recovery, and other assessment data) to the repository will enhance the capacity of the Centre to answer questions about the health and well-being of Manitobans. For the data to be used by researchers, the MCHP has contracted Edudata to create a data-map, document and catalogue the variables using a web-based search engine, and create a catalogue users' guide.

Ministry of Children and Family Development

North Vancouver School District #44

Edudata Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) Cohort Reports

Edudata produced for North Vancouver a customized, web-based FSA Cohort Analysis Report package that included district and school-level reports. The reports looked at the FSA Reading, Writing, and Numeracy test achievement over time of students within the 2003 and 2004 North Vancouver FSA Cohorts.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003 Thematic Reports 1 and 2

The OECD has commissioned Edudata to prepare two reports on the results of PISA 2003. The focus of PISA 2003 is on mathematical literacy, with reading literacy and science being included at a less in-depth level. An assessment of problem-solving skills is included as a new element. Edudata is currently managing an international consortium of researchers and data, mathematics, and policy experts. This consortium is presently working on two thematic reports due for OECD publication in 2006: Mathematical Literacy: Student Performance and Engagement and Teaching and Learning Strategies .

Richmond School District #38

Edudata Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) Cohort Reports

Edudata produced for Richmond a customized FSA Cohort Analysis Report package that included district and school-level reports. The reports looked at the FSA Reading, Writing, and Numeracy test achievement over time of students within the 2003 and 2004 Richmond FSA Cohorts.

Saanich School District #63

Edudata Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) Cohort Reports

Mr. Keven Elder, Saanich School District #63

Edudata produced for Saanich a customized, web-based FSA Cohort Analysis Report package that included district and school-level reports. The reports looked at the FSA Reading, Writing, and Numeracy test achievement over time of students within the 2003 and 2004 Saanich FSA Cohorts.