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Connecting EDFacts and CEDS for Data Enhancement | Overview, Tools, and Alignment

Discover the significance and process of connecting EDFacts and CEDS, essential for high-quality reporting. Explore the content in EDFacts and CEDS, and the alignment efforts undertaken. Review the data elements, technical structures, and the work plan progress for 2013.

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Connecting EDFacts and CEDS for Data Enhancement | Overview, Tools, and Alignment

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  1. Connections for EDFacts

  2. Session Overview • Why Connect CEDS and EDFacts • How we got here • What’s in EDFacts? • What’s in CEDS? • Connecting and Alignment Efforts 2012-13 • Exploring Published Connections

  3. Why Connect EDFacts and CEDS?

  4. Goals of Connection Effort • Use Connect tool to clarify the student or teacher level elements which ED believes would be needed for high quality reporting • ED publication of a “list of ingredients” • Develop supports to enable other states to do what ED and seven pilot states have done • Enable CEDS Connect as a place for online discussion • Create an online forum where EDFacts coordinators can quickly access and review information on how EDFacts data are being processed and reported in other states

  5. Review: What’s in EDFacts

  6. EDFacts Data Content • Quantitative elements for ED grant programs (Title I, IDEA, etc.) • Student counts • Teacher counts • Classroom counts • Collection of statistical measures for NCES Common Core of Data • Finance/Resource information • School and District statuses and determinations

  7. EDFacts Technical Structures • Data are collected via file specifications • Reporting of aggregate statistics and descriptive information • SEA staff build files according to specs and submit them to EDFacts • Batch file rather than delta record based SEA Data Transmission ED ESS Files State Data System(s) EDFacts Data Warehouse (EDW) EDFacts Submission System (ESS) SEA Offices Reports for Program Offices

  8. Review: What is CEDS?

  9. CEDS v 4.0 • Content Development • Early Learning, K12, Postsecondary • CTE, Adult Education, Workforce • P-20W (Cross-cutting) • Public Review Period (September) • Content Revisions/Data Modeling (Fall) • Version 4 Release – January 2014

  10. Connecting and Aligning in 2013

  11. 2013 Work plan - UPDATE • Work with NCES and ED program offices to validate presentation of mappings within enhanced CEDS Connect tool STATUS - DONE • Publish Connections for data groups in targeted EDFacts file specs STATUS - DONE • Work with 7 pilot states to publish • Source system alignments (all 7 states) • State specific connections (2 metric states) STATUS – DRAFTED, NOT ALL PUBLISHED • Develop materials to assist all states or LEAs in making use of online tools STATUS – IN PROCESS, PLANNED FALL 2013

  12. Exploring Published Connections

  13. Published connections

  14. Contacts: name: Ross Santy ross.santy@ed.gov • name: Jim Campbell • Jim.Campbell@aemcorp.com

  15. Engage with CEDS http://ceds.ed.gov

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