Forum Guide to Strategies for Education Data Collection and Reporting (SEDCAR)

Title:	Forum Guide to Strategies for Education Data Collection and Reporting (SEDCAR)
Description:	The Forum Guide to Strategies for Education Data Collection and Reporting (SEDCAR) was created to provide timely and useful best practices for education agencies that are interested in designing and implementing a strategy for data collection and reporting, focusing on these as key elements of the larger data process. It builds upon the Standards for Education Data Collection and Reporting (published by the Forum in 1991) and reflects the vast increase over the past three decades in the number of compulsory and/or continual data collections conducted by education agencies. This new resource is designed to be relevant to the state and local education agencies (SEAs and LEAs) of today, in which data are regularly collected for multiple purposes, and data collection and recording may be conducted by many different individuals within an agency.
Online Availability:	Download, view and print the report as a pdf file. (6.57MB)
Cover Date:	March 2021
Web Release:	March 11, 2021
Publication #:	NFES 2021013
Center/Program:	NFES
Associated Centers:	NCES
Authors:	National Forum on Education Statistics
Type of Product:	Technical Methods Report
Keywords:	Data Analysis Data Collection Data Management Data Reporting Data Strategy Data Use Databases Process Data Schools States • state data systems • state education agency
Questions:	For questions about the content of this Technical Methods Report, please contact: Ghedam Bairu.