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Data and Accountability

Resources on topics such as federal and state reporting and accountability systems, longitudinal data systems and return on investment

Case Study: New Jersey's Education to Earnings Data System

  • Case Study
February 2021 —

This case study is part of a series of case studies to support the Advance CTE Career Readiness Data Quality and Use Policy Benchmark Tool. Supporting element three, data system alignment, this case study examines how New Jersey links learner data across education and workforce agencies.

Case Study: North Dakota's Data Dashboards

  • Case Study
February 2021 —

This case study is part of a series of case studies to support the Advance CTE Career Readiness Data Quality and Use Policy Benchmark Tool. Supporting element four, information is relevant, timely, and disaggregated, this case study examines North Dakota's public and internal data dashboards.

Case Study: Kentucky Center for Statistics and Department of Education Data Partnership

  • Case Study
February 2021 —

This case study is part of a series of case studies to support the Advance CTE Career Readiness Data Quality and Use Policy Benchmark Tool. Supporting element five, practitioners and the public understand and leverage data, this case study examines cross-agency collaboration in Kentucky.

Case Study: Ohio's Perkins V Equity Labs

  • Case Study
February 2021 —

This case study is part of a series of case studies to support the Advance CTE Career Readiness Data Quality and Use Policy Benchmark Tool. Supporting element six, information is used effectively to promote quality and equity, this case study examines Ohio's Perkins V Equity Labs.

Mitigating Unanticipated Circumstances: Resetting Perkins V State Determined Performance Levels During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Guide/Tool
February 2021 —

This resource from Advance CTE and the Association for Career and Technical Education provides an overview of four steps states can take to decide whether and how they might revise their Perkins V performance targets as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Beyond the Numbers: Design Principles for CTE Data Reporting

  • Guide/Tool
November 2020 —

This report, which as developed with input and guidance from a shared solutions workgroup of national and state experts, provides nine principles for developing effective and accessible CTE data reporting tools. 

Beyond the Numbers: A Toolkit for Communicating CTE Data

  • Guide/Tool
November 2020 —

This toolkit contains guidance, best practices and tools that CTE leaders can use to create communications to help stakeholders better understand and act on CTE data.

Improving Youth Apprenticeship Data Quality: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Research/ Report
November 2020 —

The report, developed by the Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship's (PAYA) Data Quality workgroup, addresses the most urgent youth apprenticeship data quality challenges and describes the roles that different stakeholders can play in improving the quality and use of data.