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Connections for ED Facts. Session Overview. Why Connect CEDS and ED Facts How we got here What’s in EDFacts? What’s in CEDS? Connecting and Alignment Efforts 2012-13 Exploring Published Connections. Why Connect ED Facts and CEDS?. Goals of Connection Effort.
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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
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
Review: What’s in EDFacts
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
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
Review: What is CEDS?
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
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
Contacts: name: Ross Santy ross.santy@ed.gov • name: Jim Campbell • Jim.Campbell@aemcorp.com
Engage with CEDS http://ceds.ed.gov