Prior to the recording of student scores, all tutors were asked to observe a sample of students undertaking an activity and to provide a rating for attitude and behaviour for each student.
Additionally, they can be used for school administrative tasks such as the recording of student attendance and the management of library loans.
The privacy law lets universities give parents the education records of students claimed as dependents on their tax returns.
More recently, he bought a Handspring Visor to help him organize the records of students in his classes.
They also called for measuring educational progress by considering the individual records of students, not just the total number of students meeting proficiency standards.
-- had a worse record of students graduating on time in 2001, the latest year for which data was available, the report found.
On behaviour, it added: "Inspection evidence from records of students' behaviour, the racist incident and exclusion logs and discussions with students indicate there are too many instances... where the behaviour of students is poor.
Looking at English census records since 1800, they picked out names such as Bazalgette and Leschallas and compared them with records of students at elite institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge universities.
A faculty committee looked at the application records of students admitted between 1989 and 1998 and ranked them on a scale of 1 to 5 by College Board scores, class rank, course work and "intellectual curiosity," with 1 the highest.
"But that does not extend to keeping a record of students who attend religious meetings, and must be done in a way that is sensitive to all people's freedom to practise whatever religion they choose".
