Protecting Student Records and Facilitating Education Research A Workshop Summary (2009) / Chapter Skim
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Reflecting the movement toward electronic data, many social science researchers have changed their methods; today, they may conduct fewer original surveys to gather research data and turn more often to administrative data maintained in government databases. These trends have converged to greatly increase the supply of data on student performance in public schools.
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To explore possibilities for data access and confidentiality in compliance with FERPA and with the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects, the National Academies and the American Educational Research Association convened the Workshop on Protecting Student Records and Facilitating Education Research in April 2008 (see Appendix A for the workshop agenda)
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She mentioned that comments on the rules by the American Educational Research Association would reflect an online survey of its members about FERPA, which drew a large response from over 250 education researchers. In closing, she predicted that the workshop would be valuable, observing that the National Academies' Committee on National Statistics has a long history of successfully addressing issues of research access and privacy protection (e.g., National Research Council, 1993)
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. Another approach is to pro vide access at highly protected sites (data enclaves, research data centers)
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Straf suggested that informed consent documents clearly describe all potential uses of the data sought, including research uses (National Research Council, 1993) , and refer to the larger goals of the research, such as to improve the quality of education.
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DISCUSSION OF KEY ISSUES In response to Straf's presentation, Levine said that the key issue is the migration of individual data to statistical data. As discussed in Putting People on the Map: Protecting Confidentiality with Linked Social-Spatial Data (National Research Council, 2007)
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This led to discussion of whether state databases of deidentified education records might actually include personally identifiable information, as well as the risks of disclosure from these databases. REPORT OVERVIEW This report continues in Chapter 2 with discussion of the Department of Education's current interpretation of FERPA and proposed new regulations to carry out the law, along with a description of the department's initiative to assemble and report state educational performance data.
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