CRIS Webinar: Linking High School Data and Post-Secondary Outcomes in NYC

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Linking High School Data and Post-Secondary Outcomes in NYC


Friday, December 2, 2011
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern Time

Presenters:
Jennifer Bell-Ellwanger, Executive Director Research and Policy Support Group, NYCDOE
Shani Wilkes, Senior Research Associate Research and Policy Support Group, NYCDOE

Description:
How do you determine what factors have the most impact on college readiness and success? A unique opportunity to explore that question arose in 2010 when the New York City Department of Education and City University of New York, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, collaborated to merge student-level data from the largest urban U.S. school system with data from the nation’s largest urban public university system. The considerable overlap in the two student populations – nearly 40% of NYCDOE graduates attend CUNY immediately following graduation, and around 70% of CUNY freshmen graduated from the NYCDOE – allowed researchers to track high school graduates’ outcomes after they get to college – data which, typically, are notoriously hard to link. 

In this webinar, the presenters will share lessons learned in this project, including:

  • the challenges of dealing with researchers across multiple institutions
  • the importance of defining cohorts
  • the difficulties in matching large datasets across institutions without unique identifiers
  • the importance of documentation
  • the cost of collaboration  

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This webinar was made possible by the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.