Recently, the Iowa Department of Education released the AEA PREP (Postsecondary Readiness & Equity Partnership) Dashboards providing a portrait of how prepared Iowa high school graduates are for success in post-secondary education and training. The dashboards are intended to help guide school and district school improvement efforts using statewide, AEA, district and building level data. Schools can use their local information to benchmark and monitor progress toward locally defined goals as they relate to post-secondary readiness and success, including enrollment, persistence and completion of post-secondary programs. The AEA PREP Dashboards are highly interactive in nature and allow schools to examine the post-secondary success of their students through a variety of post-secondary readiness and demographic filters. The dashboards are housed within EdInsight.
What Data are Included/What Data are Excluded
Data included: PREP Dashboards include post-secondary readiness and demographic data provided by Iowa school districts through State Reporting in Iowa (SRI). In addition, post-secondary enrollment and award data are provided through three sources: Iowa Board of Regents (for public Regent universities in Iowa), Iowa Division of Community Colleges & Workforce Preparation (for public community colleges in Iowa) and the National Student Clearinghouse (for in-state private colleges and universities and all out-of-state colleges and universities).
Data excluded: Post-secondary enrollment data is considered directory-level data and thus does not include any post-secondary performance data, including but not limited to college GPA, college credit accrual, financial aid information or other course-specific performance data.
How to Use or Interpret PREP Dashboards
Specifically, AEA PREP Dashboards are intended to help guide districts in establishing and monitoring post-secondary readiness goals aligned with both the Iowa College and Career Readiness definition and overall school improvement efforts. The information contained in the dashboards can be used to identify programmatic areas of success in relation to increasing post-secondary enrollment and award/completion. These reports are intended to support the entire school improvement process in conjunction with the other data sources already in use (i.e., ESSA reporting, school report cards and DA/Healthy Indicators). Please note: AEA PREP Dashboards are intended for in-district use only and are not intended for public distribution due to their inclusion of small cell size data.
If you have questions or would like additional information, contact Heartland AEA’s AEA PREP leads, Sue Schirmer or T.J. Jumper.
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