Concurrent Session VIII Presentations

Wednesday, July 13, 2016
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

VIII–A: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Data Collection, Processing, and Dissemination

Richard Reeves, National Center for Education Statistics
Christopher Cody, American Institutes for Research

This session will present the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data collection process including data cleaning, routines, call center support, and dissemination efforts. This session will open with a description of the IPEDS collection and relevant legal authorities. After orienting the audience to IPEDS, there will be a description of the ways that IPEDS processes and cleans data. In closing, the panel will show some of the tools IPEDS has available to the public with brief demonstrations of their utility.

Complexity: Intermediate Level

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Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Data Collection, Processing, and Dissemination, Part I (464 KB)
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Data Collection, Processing, and Dissemination, Part II (5.181 MB)

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VIII–B: The Common Core of Data (CCD)—America’s Public Schools

Mark Glander, National Center for Education Statistics

The Common Core of Data (CCD) is the U.S. Department of Education’s primary database on public elementary and secondary schools and school districts. This session will discuss the data available from CCD, how those data can be accessed, and changes that are being made in how the CCD is reported.

Complexity: Entry Level

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The Common Core of Data (CCD)—America’s Public Schools (292 KB)

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VIII–C: CONNECTing Data Collection and Data Use

Etai Mizrav, District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education
Nancy Copa and Monica Young, AEM Corporation

Now more than ever, high-quality data must be used to answer critical policy questions and support policies and laws, such as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), that promote the education of children. The journey from the development of questions and/or metrics to a usable form of data need not be difficult to navigate. Learn about the DC Staffing Data Collaborative approach and how using Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) Connect, the Equitable Access Support Network can provide states the analysis plan to address critical questions about equitable access to teachers so staff can communicate with their IT personnel. This session will demonstrate how you can replicate this process for your questions/metrics.

Complexity: Entry Level

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CONNECTing Data Collection and Data Use (1.32 MB)

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VIII–D: Internal Controls

Barbara Timm, U.S. Department of Education

This presentation will review internal control models and how those models can be applied at the local and state education agency levels to provide reasonable assurance that data reported are accurate and complete.

Complexity: Entry Level

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Internal Controls (636 KB)

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VIII–E: EDUCaTION wiThout d@tA sdradnat$

Bob Swiggum, Georgia State Department of Education
Laura Hansen, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (TN)
Duane Brown, AEM Corporation

The Georgia State Department of Education, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (Tennessee), and the Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) Team will present on how standards, such as CEDS, are solving many of the challenges local education agencies and states face related to data management and use. An education world without any data standards at all is unimaginable. Join this session to explore how data standards impact everything from budgeting and resources to data collection and effective use of data, and what it means to take data standards to the next level.

Complexity: Entry Level

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EDUCaTION wiThout d@tA sdradnat$ (5.78 MB)

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VIII–F: Best Practice for Enhancing Collaborative Data Use in Schools

Margie Johnson, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (TN)
Stephanie Wilkerson, Magnolia Consulting, LLC

Research demonstrates the positive effect collaboration has on student achievement. Of course, fostering a culture of collaboration is easier said than done. Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (Tennessee), in partnership with Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, has been on a three-year journey building middle school educators’ capacities to use data for leveraging collaborative expertise throughout the organization. This session will provide participants with the best practices and lessons learned for enhancing collaborative data-use practices.

Complexity: Entry Level

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VIII–G: Looking Over the Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) Program: New Resources to Investigate the Social and Spatial Context of Education

Doug Geverdt, National Center for Education Statistics

Geographic conditions impact educational outcomes; so the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau, provides unique data resources to help analysts understand the social and spatial context of education. This presentation will discuss new additions to the NCES Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) Program, including geographic locale boundaries, a time series of composite school district boundaries, and updated custom school district demographic and economic estimates developed from the American Community Survey. This presentation will include a brief overview of on-going research to develop supplemental neighborhood poverty indicators and other initiatives planned for the upcoming year.

Complexity: Intermediate Level

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VIII–H: Cross-Sector Data Integration to Support Hawaii’s Data-Use Strategies

Jean Osumi, University of Hawaii/Hawaii P–20 Partnerships for Education
John Watson and Mary Kay Patto, Institute for Evidence-Based Change

Just because a data system can store K–12, postsecondary, and workforce data, it doesn’t automatically mean the system was designed to facilitate cross-sector reporting. With assistance from the Institute for Evidence-Based Change, the Hawaii Data eXchange Partnership has extended its P20W statewide longitudinal data system through the creation of cross-sector fact tables to support reporting and metric development. The story of the need behind the effort, how the tables were conceptualized, and the process for the table development will be presented.

Complexity: Entry Level

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Cross-Sector Data Integration to Support Hawaii’s Data-Use Strategies (862 KB)

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