The primary purpose of this document is to help state & local education agencies & schools develop adequate policies & procedures to protect information about students & their families from improper release, while satisfying the need for school officials to make sound management, instructional, & service decisions. Sections include: a primer for privacy; summary of key federal laws; protecting the privacy of individuals during the data collection process; securing the privacy of data maintained & used within an agency; providing parents access to their child's records; & releasing information outside an agency. 5 appendices.

This handbook establishes current and consistent terms, definitions, and classification codes to maintain, collect, report, and exchange comparable information about students. The handbook is useful to public and private agencies and educational institutions, researchers, policy makers, and members of the public interested in student data. The definitions are consistent with current state and local practice, national standards movements, and federal reporting requirements as a consensus of what is considered "best practice" in data collection. The Handbook includes these chapters: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "The Handbook"; (3) "Building a Student Record System"; (4) "Data Elements and Definitions"; and (5) "Applications of the Handbook." Twelve appendixes present comprehensive lists of coding options, code designations, and the names of contributors to this edition. (SLD)

This project aims to produce a web-based system for staff and students. Staff are able to track their students' attendance. The system provides attendance reports about a specific lecture or module. If the staff is a mentor or a supervisor, he can view his students' attendance reports. Students are able to view their attendance status. The system provides summarized or detailed reports about students' attendance. This book describes the requirements, design, implementation and security of "Tracking Students' Attendance" system. The system sends warning emails to students who exceed a specific number of absences. It system provides a web-based interface for tracking attendance of each students. Usernames and passwords are required to login the system. The whole system has been tested. A significant proportion of the proposed requirements were met with a web application based on PHP scripting language and MySQL database. It was concluded that the project as a whole was a success.