TAKS Results Analysis

Capturing notes around analyzing Texas Assessment of Knowledge & Skills (TAKS) results.  OBVIOUSLY, A WORK IN PROGRESS...

Found links to TAKS datasets here.

Downloaded the 2006 and 2007 datasets and quickly found out that both are of different formats.  

File format details available at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/datafileformats/.

Raw results download page; http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/reporting/taksagg/dnload.html (this is rolled-up info).