Districts can provide the information electronically or by hand-coding the student answer documents.
Choosing the electronic option will allow the vendors to provide your district with bar-coded PreID labels for students. Districts selecting the hand-coding option must code all information on the test books. The WSAS Data Collection Software guides you through the steps necessary to export the demographic data for the PreID files. The software was developed by DPI staff and is similar to software used by school districts for other state and federal data collections. The WSAS Data Collection Software includes checks for invalid codes and missing data so that the potential for error is reduced.