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FERPA is applicable to both K-12 and higher education. FERPA is a law that privides students access to their student records and it maintains the privacy for educational records.
Students and parents also have the right to amend their educational records and complaints must be filed withing 180 days from the incident.
In our pandemic environment of education - where every educational institution has had to modify to online learning - I appreciated the perspective of having new difficulties arise in an online environment. There have been so many new challenges that everyone involved in student education has had to adapt to over the last year and a half so I can see how Ferpa, Ferpa records, privacy, disclosure, and even identifying the student that you may never meet, can all add new challenges to protecting a student's privacy.
What I have found interesting about FERPA is that just because aacademic advisor places information on the record doesn't necessarily mean it is on record. The advisor has to formall share those notes with the institution, otherwise those notes are private. I feel if the individual felt it was worth nothing, we should know.
I'm just happy to know that this is something that exists
Understanding the FERPA laws in very important in protecting student;s privacy. Some students don't want any of their information released to anyone and it's important to respect that request.
My main takeaway from this topic so far is that the students have a right to their information, as well as the right to keep their information private, and that it is our job to ensure that. I will apply this knowledge by always being confident that I am following FERPA guidlines, and when answering calls, or speaking to students that I dont share any personal information that is not allowed.
I learned that students have the right to access their records under FERPA. And am looking forward to learning more about FERPA in the modules ahead!
There are a lot of take away from this first part of the module. Sole Possession Notes that are transfered are student records.
FERPA protects private student information. It allows for students/parents to acces student information. If in doubt, I would check with the compliance officer before releasing student information. Also, I would encrypt any information emailed.
I had never heard of FERPA beforehand. This was a good introduction to the topic. It is important to know this well to make sure we are giving student fair and appropriate access to their records according to the law.
The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 protects rights of the students records by allowing students to:
1.) Inspect/ review
2.) Request amendmant
3.) Request hearing if amendament is denied
4.) Not disclosure directory information
5.) File complaint
The institution has 45 days to comply with request to see student records.
The main takeaways are the basic components of FERPA, the students rights, and key concepts and definitions to better understand teh scope of the law.
I thought that a fine was always imposed for violations. Todday, I learned that is not always the case.
I have learned the importance of protecting students' privacy, and also granting them access to their educational records.
Understanding the importance of privacy rights this day and time is critical in managing online requests. Taking proper precautions in setting up the ability to verify the identity of the requestor is important for the school or institution providing the records.
I work as a data scientist, and I am interested in how we can use information from a student record to build ML models that might help in predicting student success. What I've learned is that this data needs to be stripped of any personally identifiable information before it's used to train a model. This is good information and will help me organize my workflows.