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Association
Education Leadership Artifact
Event
Information Exchange
Instruction Artifact
Operations Artifact
Organization
Person
Place
- Area
- Location
Program

Common Attributes

Entity Identifier
Locus
Organization Characteristic
Person Characteristic

Core Entities

Course
District
School
Section
State
Student
Teacher

Top Level Entity Instruction Artifact Latent Construct

Latent Construct (LatentConstruct)

Entities that cannot be directly measured or known. Measures of latent constructs can only be estimates or approximations.

SubClasses (No SubClasses)

Entities

Reporting Category
Strand
Subtest

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