What is the purpose of a demographic import?
This article explains the advantages, applications and benefits of performing a demographic import.
Demographic importing is used to import student demographic information to existing student accounts.
Step-by-Step Guides
Purpose of demographic data
- Viewing assessment data from Istation allows you to make a plan for each student and classroom. This plan can include intervention to improve academic achievement for the student’s overall success.
- When you add the variable of demographic data, you can make predictions about data. These predictions can further narrow the plan's scope since there can be causal implications for higher gains.
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Here are some examples of viewing student data by demographic group:
- the ability to compare special education to general education population data
- the ability to compare native English speakers to non-native English speakers
Required Fields for the Demographic Import
- Student Name
- Student Grade
- Student ID
- Campus ID (for district imports)
Demographic Importing Optional Fields
- Gender
- Race – Black or African American (AA), American Indian or Alaska Native (AN), Asian (AS), Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (PI), White (WH), Other (OT), Two or more races (2M)
- Special Education
- Instructional Type – General Education, ESL, Bilingual Education
- Economically Disadvantaged
- Disability Condition – Auditory Impairment (AI), Autism (AU), Emotional Disturbance (ED), Intellectual Disability (MR), Orthopedic Impairment (OI), Noncategorical Early Childhood (NCEC), Speech/Language Impairment (SI), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Visual Impairment (VI), Deaf-Blindness (DB), Deafness (D), Developmental Delay (DD)
- Gifted/Talented
- Homeless
- Migrant
- Ethnicity – Not Hispanic/Latino (N), Hispanic/Latino (H)
- Native Language – English (EN), Spanish (ES), Chinese (ZH), Tagalog (TL), Vietnamese (VI), Arabic (AR), French (F), Korean (KO), Russian (RU), German (DE), Other (OT)
- Birthdate – MM/DD/YYYY or MM-DD-YYYY
- English Proficiency - Native English Speaker (O), English Language Learner (L), Former English Language Learner (F)
- K-3 Plus
For more information consult What is the Assessment Data Dictionary?
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