Online Alaska School Information System (OASIS)

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What is OASIS?

On-line Alaska School Information System is operated by the Office of Assessments and Student Information in the Division of Teaching and Learning Support. The responsibilities of this office include the collection, analysis and publication of student and education information.

Documentation

Mission

To establish and maintain a cost effective, secure method of accessing and transferring school and critical student-level information that may be shared among:

  • Schools and school districts
  • Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (EED)
  • Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education (APCE)
  • Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOLWD)
  • Postsecondary institutions
  • Providers of children's social and health services
  • Other state departments of education; and
  • United States Department of Education

Objectives

  • To establish compatible data standards and a process for local education agencies to electronically share school data in a timely and cost effective manner.
  • To establish an automated process for local education agencies to share school data with the state to more efficiently meet state and federal reporting requirements.
  • To improve the accessibility and usefulness of information for educational research and evaluation purposes.

OASIS Project Timelines

Major Project Tasks

  • Develop project action plan
  • Publish OASIS Student Data Handbooks
  • Provide technical assistance
  • Transfer student data electronically from districts
  • Evalute data transfer processes

Goals and Benefits of OASIS

For Students

  • Improves transition between school and college or work.
  • Reduces the likelihood of delayed services to individual students.
  • Improves student access to educational programs, social and health services.
  • Improves the capacity of state and local educators to respond to the needs of diverse and mobile student populations.

For School/District Administration

  • Reduces redundant data entry for transferring students.
  • Assists with certain record transfer needs for all mobile students within a comprehensive system.
  • Reduces unnecessary data collection and aggregation by schools before submission to the state.
  • Creates data standards that allow demographic reporting.
  • Increases local, state and national awareness of student demographics and trends in student achievement.
  • Monitors more accurately school dropout and graduation rates.

For the Department of Education & Early Development

  • Provides immediate access to school data.
  • Provides consistent, comparable, and accurate school data.
  • Provides the capability to produce timely standard and ad hoc reports from school data.
  • Reduces redundant data collection.
  • Improves policy development and decision-making.

OASIS Project Contacts

Alaska Department of Education & Early Development

Related Internet Sites

Family Education Rights and Privacy Act Regulations