California Star Test Application

The California Star Test Application displays various aspects of the raw california test data.

Currently, the following have written and are working:

• Initial Data Modeling
• Basic Admin Pages

Planned Functionality

• Management command to download and import raw test data
• Comparison of data across demographic groups an years using Google Motion Charts
• Site With Drill Down to Test data

Installation

There are a number of data files and descriptions located on the California Department of Education California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program website http://star.cde.ca.gov/

Data Field Descriptions http://star.cde.ca.gov/star2010/research_fixfileformat.asp

Research Files http://star.cde.ca.gov/star2010/ResearchFileList.asp?rf=True&ps=True

Data

Some of the data will be shipped with the application, other data will need to be generated from the research files using management commands.

The Data For the star.Test Table was generates using the StarTestConvert management command.

$ ./manage.py StarTestConvert ~/data/Tests2010.txt star/fixtures/initial_data.json

The Entity (County/District/School) data and the actual results can be downloaded separately and converted. I am only using the 2010 currently schema adjustments need to be made to support multiple years of data.

$ ./manage.py StarEntityConvert ../data/ca2010entities_csv.txt ../data/ca2010entities.json $ ./manage.py StarScoreConvert ../data/ca2010_all_41_69005_csv_v2.txt ../data/ca2010_all_41_69005_csv_v2.json $ ./manage.py loaddata ../data/ca2010entities.json $ ./manage.py loaddata ../data/ca2010_all_41_69005_csv_v2.json

TODOs and BUGS

See: http://github.com/jasonculverhouse/django-ca-star/issues