The Quality School Portfolio (QSP) is a web-based decision support tool for schools and districts. Districts or individual schools wishing to use QSP need to become members of the QSP User Group. Membership entitles users to  download the software, access to all support materials (online training, user manual, technical manual), technical support via the phone, and access to any  subsequent upgrades to the QSP software. For specific costs, please contact Margaret Heritage, mheritag@ucla.edu

Developed at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing at UCLA (CRESST), with funding from the U.S. Department of Education, web-based QSP is a powerful new tool to assist educators in collecting, analyzing and making sense of data.

Web-based QSP makes data analysis available to schools and teachers nationwide, assists schools and districts in meeting the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, and increases effective data analyses that support instruction.

QSP was first created as a desktop version, which is currently in use in all 50 states, in over 1000 schools in 80 districts. Web-based QSP offers additional functionality and increased flexibility. Web-based QSP can be customized to allow schools to add local variables on achievement and other data to meet unique site needs.

The main sections of QSP are:

Groups
Disaggregate student, teacher and parent data into custom-designed ³Groups² for analysis and reporting.

Goals
Determine Goals and set Targets to monitor student progress towards meeting standards.

Reports
Create understandable and actionable charts and graphs as a basis for decision-making

Gradebook
Track student performance at the classroom level.

Students
Input and organize student work samples and view a longitudinal history of each student.