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Why CEDS? 101• What are Common Standards?• What is CEDS?• Why do we need it?• Who’s involved?• What does it provide?

Common Standards What are we talking What are we talking about?about?

A language is a standardstandard form of communicationcommunication.

But, there are certain things certain things we allall need to understandunderstand and communicatecommunicate.

Humans speak many different many different languageslanguages.

For these, we need a common common languagelanguage.

FOR EXAMPLE: Sign Sign symbolssymbolsImagine...Imagine...

You arrive at an airportairport in a foreign city foreign city where an unfamiliar language unfamiliar language is spoken.

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How do you find your find your wayway?

Common Education Data Standards What are we talking What are we talking about?about?

Data standard: Data standard: an agreed upon set of data names, definitions, options & technical specs

But, there are certain data certain data we allall need to understandunderstand, comparecompare & exchangeexchange.

Education institutions across P-20P-20 use manymany different data standardsdifferent data standards.

For these, we need acommon education data common education data standardstandard.

FOR EXAMPLE: Demographic Demographic datadataImagine...Imagine...

A childchild from Early Learning Program A Early Learning Program A also enrolls in Early Early Intervention Part C services Intervention Part C services that may use a different different education data standardeducation data standard.

EL Program AEL Program A

Here’s a child:

MattheSmithIII

Race = GuamanianGender = M

Early InterventionEarly Intervention

Hmmm…Did you mean:

Matthew ?Smith ?

Suffix = III ?Race = NHOPI ?

Sex = M ?

FOR EXAMPLE: Demographic Demographic datadataImagine...Imagine...

A studentstudent from a high school in State Ahigh school in State A enrolls in a university in State Buniversity in State B that uses a different education different education data standarddata standard.

High School in High School in

state Astate AIHE in state BIHE in state B

Here’s a new student:

JonathaTsumuraII

Race = JapaneseGender = M

Hmmm…Did you mean:

Jonathan ?Tsumura ?

Suffix = II ?Race = Asian ?

Sex = M ?

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The P-20 community needs a COMMON VOCABULARY COMMON VOCABULARY

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What is What is CEDS?CEDS?

What is CEDS?• A national collaborative effort to develop voluntaryvoluntary, commoncommon data standards for a key set of education data elements

Voluntary Common Voluntary Common VocabularyVocabulary

• A vocabularyvocabulary including standard definitions, option sets & technical specifications to streamline sharing and comparing

Why do we need CEDS?1.1.AccurateAccurate, timelytimely, and consistent dataconsistent data

to inform decisionmaking

2.2.Share & compare high quality Share & compare high quality data data within & across P-20P-20 sectors

Required

A data collection

A federal unit record system

Solely an ED undertaking

All or nothing

An implementation

CEDSis NotNot:

CEDS:CEDS:Who’sWho’s

involved?involved?

CEDS v2 Stakeholders (1 of 2)• State Agencies State Agencies

• State Education Agencies• State Higher Education Agencies• Social Services Agencies

• Local Education AgenciesLocal Education Agencies• K12• Head Start• Social Services

• Institutions of Higher EducationInstitutions of Higher Education• Public• Private• Community Colleges

CEDS v2 Stakeholders (2 of 2)• U.S. Department of EducationU.S. Department of Education

• NCES (SLDS, IPEDS)• EDFacts• Office of Educ. Technology

• U.S. Health and Human ServicesU.S. Health and Human Services• U.S. Department of LaborU.S. Department of Labor• Interoperability Standard OrganizationsInteroperability Standard Organizations• Education AssociationsEducation Associations• FoundationsFoundations

• Financial Student Aid• Office of the Undersecretary• Special Education

What doesWhat does

CEDSCEDSprovide?provide?

CEDS provides:• A Robust & Expanding

Common, Voluntary Common, Voluntary Vocabulary Vocabulary drawn from existing sources

• Powerful Stakeholder Tools & ModelsTools & Models• Alignment Tool• Logical Data Model

Standard Information: The Basics

ElementDefinition

Option set

Domain

Related Use Cases

Entity

YesNoNotSelected

K12 Student

Hispanic Hispanic or Latinoor LatinoEthnicityEthnicity

K12

CEDS Logical Data Model• Provides a high-level framework high-level framework

for translating standards into physical models

• System-agnosticSystem-agnostic representation• 2 distinct views2 distinct views:• Domain Entity Schema • Normalized Data Schema

Web-based tool that allows users to:• Import or input their data their data

dictionariesdictionaries• AlignAlign their data to CEDS• CompareCompare themselves with otherswith others• AnalyzeAnalyze their data in

relation to various other CEDS-aligned efforts

CEDS Alignment Tool

CEDS Use Case Generator ToolBuilds on the CEDS Alignment Tool and allows stakeholders to:•Generate specificspecific and relevantrelevant maps to a growing pool growing pool of CEDS aligned use cases

1. We need standardsWe need standards2. CEDSCEDS is herehere3. It’s a group effortgroup effort4. It’s for P-20P-205. It provides elementselements6. It’s got a data modeldata model7. It’s got powerful toolspowerful tools

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For more For more information,information,

visit:visit:http://http://

ceds.ed.govceds.ed.gov