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National Forum on Education Statistics, 2020
The "Forum Guide to Data Governance" highlights how data governance programs benefit education agencies and provide timely and useful best practices, examples, and resources for agencies implementing or updating their data governance programs. This resource is intended to address the needs of federal, state, and local agencies related…
Descriptors: Data, Governance, Information Security, Privacy
Reform Support Network, 2013
The purpose of this document is to serve as a reference guide for States involved in the P-20 effort to map data elements to the Common Education Data Standards (CEDS). It describes how one State used Align to assist in development of its P-20 system and describes in detail how this project could be replicated. The CEDS provide a shared vocabulary…
Descriptors: Data, Standards, College School Cooperation, Alignment (Education)
Peace Corps, 2014
Data-driven decision making is part of our everyday lives. For example, we examine our children's immunization charts in order to indicate what vaccinations they have received, as well as what vaccinations are missing and expired. We use information, like a chart, to make decisions about what to do and what not to do. Data-driven decision making…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Volunteers, Training
ICF International (NJ1), 2012
Early education leaders--inside and outside of government--are looking for new ways to improve quality, accountability, and efficiency across many different programs serving young children and their families, and they see investment in data systems as a pivotal part of that effort. However, it can be challenging to develop and implement effective…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Systems Development, Management Information Systems, Data
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Rodriguez, Sheila M.; Estacion, Angela – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2014
As the name indicates, the College Readiness Data Catalog Tool focuses on identifying data that can indicate a student's college readiness. While college readiness indicators may also signal career readiness, many states, districts, and other entities, including the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), do not systematically collect career readiness…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Data, Educational Indicators, Data Collection
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National Forum on Education Statistics, 2010
This document is the first installment of this Forum (National Forum on Education Statistics) series of guides on longitudinal data systems (LDS). This book focuses on the fundamental questions of what an LDS is (and what it is not), what steps should be taken to achieve a sound system, what components make up an ideal system, and why such a…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Information Management, Misconceptions, Data
National Forum on Education Statistics, 2012
Education data are growing in quantity, quality, and value. When appropriately used to guide action, data can be a powerful tool for improving school operations, teaching, and learning. Education stakeholders who possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities to appropriately access, analyze, and interpret data will be able to use data to take…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Data Interpretation, Information Utilization, Data Analysis
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National Forum on Education Statistics, 2010
Each and every day, educators collect and use data about students, staff, and schools. Some of these data originate in individual student and staff records that are confidential or otherwise sensitive. And even those data that are a matter of public record, such as aggregate school enrollment, need to be accessed, presented, and used in an…
Descriptors: Data, Data Collection, Student Records, Information Utilization
Hanson, Donna M. – Green Library Journal, 1992
Discusses agency library information activities, production and dissemination, and resource access as presented at the first conference of state and provincial fish and game agency librarians. Agencies represented include the Fish and Wildlife Reference Service, Aquaculture, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Agencies, Conferences, Data