How do states protect the privacy and confidentiality of individual student and staff records?
States are utilizing a variety of technological and policy solutions to address privacy and confidentiality. For example, states are implementing what’s known as role-based or managed access to individual data maintained in data warehouses. Role-based access insures that a teacher can only see individual records for his/her students and aggregate data for other students, and a principal can see individual records for students in his/her schools and aggregate data for all other schools, and so on. In addition, states have developed Memoranda of Understanding for data sharing, access and reporting when working with other agencies, universities or outsides researchers. These documents typically outline who can have access to what data, who must review reports before they are published and how data is to be destroyed at the end of projects. Examples can be found on the LDS share.
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