Information System; Early Childhood Standard and Criteria.

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INFORMATION SYSTEM

Each school is expected to have in place an assessment-driven information system that is comprehensive and current. This system is designed to address questions relative to student performance and the school's effectiveness, as well as questions which ask for a comparison of the school community's students and other students. The school continually collects student and community data to analyze the performance of its students as they enter, progress, and exit each level of schooling.

Membership Criteria
IS 1	The school has established a data-driven information system which is used in its instructional decision-making process for the purpose of improving student learning..

Improvement Criteria
IS 2	Information is regularly collected from stakeholders relative to their attitudes, expectations, and assessments of the quality of the school, its program, the climate, and the success of its students.

IS 3	Information gathered from the school community and student performance information are are continually analyzed and used to design quality school programs, to establish a positive learning climate, and to continually evaluate and improve all school conditions and document program effectiveness.

IS 4	The information system provides appropriate data for school personnel to analyze. For example: The preparation of students entering the school. Changes in student performance that occur over time. The extent to former students are prepared to be successful at the next level of schooling, in career preparation, and in becoming self-directed learners.

IS 5	The school collects information from entering students to establish a teaching-learning program that accommodates all learners.

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