Expert profile
Name Dr. Barbara S. Clements Job title Vice President of Education Services
Organization	ESP SOLUTIONS GROUP
Expertise	National education data standardization efforts, education information system design and management, education technology, technology utilization in schools, Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) compatibility, guidelines regarding confidentiality and security of student and staff records, graduation and drop out rates, student ID systems, student locator systems, student mobility, confidentiality of data, data quality and education data management best practices.
Books and articles published	Principal author of 'The Staff Data Handbook for Elementary, Secondary and Early Childhood Education' U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, 2001 / 'Designing and Implementing a System for Assigning Student Identifiers in New York.' New York DOE 2001 / 'Assessing the Market Demand for the Services and Products of the Regional Educational Laboratories' U.S. Deptartment of Education and Decision Information Resources, 2000. 'Classroom management for elementary teachers' (Fourth Edition). Prentice Hall, Inc. (1997).
Background	Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin (UT) in Educational Psychology, 1991 / M.A. from UT in Foreign Language Education, 1977 / B.S.Ed. from UT in Education, 1969 / Texas Secondary Teaching Certificate in Spanish and Government
Country / Region	United States

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