Standards Committee: Compliance Review
An important way to ensure the Standards are relevant and reliable is the Compliance Review process. CSEA works with an external firm to conduct reviews for schools and vendors to ensure they are compliant. The committee assists the Data Analyst with these processes in the following ways:
School Compliance Reviews
- Provides support to the Data Analyst for the Standards Compliance Review process, as needed.
- Once per year, a general summary of findings (without specific details) will be presented by the external firm that conducts the reviews. This can be used as an educational tool on general issues with school usage of the Standards, and in training. The Standards committee does not see the individual results from the reviews, but serves as a guide in case any questions arise during the process
- At the end of the cycle for each year, the reviews process and communications are reviewed by a group of committee members to ensure ongoing relevancy and recommend tweaks as needed.
Vendor Compliance Reviews
This program provides vendors that use student surveys to capture and report employment data with a yearly license/certification to use the Standards. The Standards Consultant manages the program and utilizes assistance from the committee if an interpretation of the Standards is needed during the certification process. The committee also reviews the process on a regular basis to make suggestions for adjustments if needed, and notifies the Executive Director and Standards Consultant if a discrepancy is found within a vendor's product.