Connections for EDFacts

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• 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

Session Overview

Why Connect

EDFacts and CEDS?

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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

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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

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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 basedSEA Data Transmission ED

State Data System(s) EDFacts Submission

System (ESS)

EDFacts Data Warehouse

(EDW)

ESS Files

SEA Offices

Reports for Program Offices

Review: What is CEDS?

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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

Connecting and Aligning

in 2013

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2013 Work plan - UPDATE• Work with NCES and ED program offices to validate presentation

of mappings within enhanced CEDS Connect toolSTATUS - 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

Exploring Published

Connections

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Published connections

Contacts:name: Ross Santy

ross.santy@ed.gov

name: Jim CampbellJim.Campbell@aemcorp.com

Engage with CEDShttp://

ceds.ed.gov