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G: Data Quality: Reliability, Validity, Fairness, & Trustworthiness

The quality assurance system utilized by Northwest seeks to ensure accountability, support innovation and improvement, and foster professional collaboration.  By collecting data for the DESE Annual Performance Report (APR) and Title II reports, the quality assurance system ensures accountability for state and federal compliance requirements. In addition, Northwest has gathered data to ensure innovation and improvement strategies are evaluated, such as surveys collecting data about our recent program redesign, and regarding research purposes as well.  Finally, collaborative discussions and decision making through data occurs both through regular Quality Assurance Team (QAT) meetings and during Professional Education Unit retreats. 

Hallmarks of data quality collected by an effective assurance system include data: validity, reliability, fairness, and trustworthiness. Examples of how these attributes are demonstrated in our data collection will be listed in this appendix. The exemplars listed will model our ability and goals in measuring these attributes.