Understanding CEDS: Enhancing Education Data Standards for Informed Decision-Making
The Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) initiative aims to create voluntary, consistent data standards for essential education data elements. CEDS provides a common vocabulary that facilitates accurate, timely, and reliable information sharing across various educational sectors. It addresses the need for data interoperability among stakeholders like educators, policymakers, and institutions by offering tools like the CEDS Element Database and data alignment tools. Version 2 focuses on key areas including postsecondary education, early learning, and K-12, promoting better educational outcomes through improved data practices.
Understanding CEDS: Enhancing Education Data Standards for Informed Decision-Making
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CEDS Stakeholder Group Update • Why CEDS? • Schedule • CEDS Comments Received • Focus of Version 2 • Review of Tools
What is the Standard? • A national collaborative effort to develop voluntary, commondata standards for a key set of education data elements • A vocabulary including standard definitions, code sets & technical specifications. Voluntary Common Vocabulary
Why do we need CEDS? Accurate, timely, and consistent information to inform decisionmaking • Educators and policymakers need accurate, timely, and consistent information about students and schools in order to plan effective learning experiences, improve schools, and reduce costs. Share & compare high quality data within & across P-20W sectors • Our student population is highly mobile – across districts and states, and between early learning, K12, postsecondary & the workforce. Thus, the need to share high quality data requires that we develop a common vocabulary for a core subset of data elements that exist in multiple data systems.
is Not: CEDS Required All or nothing A data collection An implementation Solely an ED undertaking A federal unit record system
Version 2 Stakeholders (1 of 2) • State Agencies • State Education Agencies • State Higher Education Agencies • Social Services Agencies • Local Education Agencies • K12 • Head Start • Social Services • Institutions of Higher Education • Public • Private • Community Colleges
Version 2 Stakeholders (2 of 2) • US Department of Education • NCES (SLDS, IPEDS) • EDFacts • Office of Education Technology • Financial Student Aid • Office of the Undersecretary • Special Education • US Health and Human Services • US Department of Labor • Interoperability Standard Organizations • Education Associations • Foundations
Version 2 Schedule Evaluation & planning Fall 2010 Stakeholder Group meetings; development Spring/ Summer 2011 Draft One released for public review July/ August 2011
CEDS Comments by Area (565 total) Postsecondary
CEDS Future Stakeholder Group meetings; development Fall 2011 Final Draft released for public review October/ November 2011 Release FINAL Version 2 standards January 2012
Version 2 Focus: Postsecondary Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Student-level items • Demographics • Instructional programs • Entrance/high school information • Enrollment • Some financial aid
Version 2 Focus: Early Learning • Demographics • child, family, and workforce • Eligibility • child and family • Health • child • License/program compliance • organization
Version 2 Focus: K12 • Assessments • district • State • Federal reporting • EDEN • CRDC (districts) • Others • Indicator/metrics support
CEDS as Culmination CEDS will provide… CEDS comes from… CEDS is… • Searchable CEDS Element Database • Data Alignment/ Crosswalking Tool • Policy Question Tool • Technical Assistance • More to come! Data definitions Data model
CEDS Metadata Repository CEDS Metadata Repository CEDS v2
CEDSMetadata Repository Conceptual DM CEDS v2 Logical DM Physical DM ? Texas Student Data System Kansas P20W SLDS
CEDS Data Alignment Tool Web-based tool that allows stakeholders to: • Import or input their data dictionaries • Aligntheir data to CEDS • Comparethemselves with others • Analyzetheir data in relationship to various other CEDS aligned efforts
Alignment Tool DRAFT SAMPLE Multi-Map Alignment Show Details Show Details Show Details Show Details Download Full Report
CEDS Use Case Generator Feature Builds on the CEDS Data Alignment Tool and allows stakeholders to: • Generate specificandrelevantmaps to a growing pool of CEDS aligned use cases
Use Case Generator DRAFT SAMPLE • Indicators/Metrics • SFSF • EDEN • IPEDS • Policy Questions • Early Learning • K12 • Postsecondary • P20W • State Defined • DQC • CEDS Stakeholder Use Cases • High School Feedback Report • Assessment Select Use Case • State Comparison • Compare by Domain (e.g., K12) • Compare by CEDS Entities • Compare all • Education Data Standards • SIF Association • PESC • Other • Teacher Student Data Link • Common Core • CCSSO’s “Blue Box” • EdFi • Shared Learning Collaborative Submit
Use Case Generator • State Defined • Georgia P20 SLDS • Impact of early learning programs on high school graduation rates • Impact of student hat size on mobility • New Mexico Legislature • How are high school course-taking patterns and achievements related to precollege course-taking in college? • What teacher preparation programs are most effective? • How many students are attending high school while working? Full-time or part-time? DRAFT SAMPLE Submit
Use Case Generator Georgia P20 SLDS Impact of student hat size on mobility CEDS Elements Student Demographic | Identification Code (Student) Student Demographic | Identification System (Student) Student Demographic | Hat Size Student Enrollment | Identification Code (School) Student Enrollment | Identification System (School) Student Enrollment | Entry Date Student Enrollment | Exit/Withdraw Date DRAFT SAMPLE
CEDS is • A Robust & Expanding Metadata Repository • Powerful Stakeholder Tools • Data Alignment Tool • Use Case Generator
