1. Ed-Fi 1.1 Request for Comment Webinar 2 Adam Miller - adam.miller@msdf.org Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Audio lines are muted during the presentation Please use the chat box to type your questions

2. Webinar Logistics Introduce yourself –Type your name and organization in the chat box. You can send text to All Participants or to the speaker. All questions/comments welcome! We will stop occasionally to answer chat questions.

3. The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation was established in 1999 to help improve the lives of children in need around the world. The Ed-Fi initiative supports children's access to quality education in public schools, one of the foundation’s key objectives.Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Ed-Fi is based on input from state and local education agencies and vendors. Ed-Fi is governed by foundation representatives working with an advisory council of education agency representatives from states that opt to implement the standard. The Ed-Fi standard is vendor-neutral and does not require any specific vendor’s hardware or software.

4. RFC Goals Solicit feedback to keep Ed-Fi useful and easy to adopt Discover potential errors, problems, or compatibility issues Provide the public portal to capture feedback at https://discussions.zoho.com/ed-fi https://discussions.zoho.com/ed-fi Most importantly, tell us missing Ed-Fi data elements that you need.

5. Contributor helpful attributes In a technical role Dealing with student data Familiar with: –XML –Data dictionaries –Database schemas –ETL processes © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 5

6. 6 Ed-Fi Web site provides free licensing

7. News Updates RFC period officially launched from now until September 27 th last call for changes Ed-Fi 1.1 RFC schema posted on www.ed-fi.org technical documentation sectionwww.ed-fi.org Most importantly, tell us missing Ed-Fi data elements that you need.

8. RFC Conference Schedule August 1 st to September 26 th 8/29 - 12-1pm Central 9/11 - 12-1pm Central 9/26 - 12-1pm Central 9/27 - RFC phase wrap up - Last call for changes 9/30 - RFC phase lockdown TBD Ed-Fi Advisory Council meeting to confirm proposed changes TBD Ed-Fi v1.1 Release Announcement

9. What is the Ed-Fi solution? CEDS-aligned toolkit for K-12 student data Four main parts –Metrics - Detailed documentation for student performance metrics –XML schema - Domain types, interchanges and extensions –Dashboards - Free source code for quality student level dashboards –ETL code - Moving data between an ODS and a dashboard database © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 9

10. Ed-Fi aligned to CEDS © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 10

11. Ed-Fi in the CEDS alignment tool © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 11

12. Ed-Fi in a typical environment © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 12

13. Ed-Fi Discussion Forum https://discussions.zoho.com/ed-fi https://discussions.zoho.com/ed-fi © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 13

14. Github repository for Ed-Fi licensees © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 14

15. Ed-Fi source code in Visual Studio 2010 © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 15

16. Running dashboards on local desktop © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 16

17. Ed-Fi 1.1 Goals Continued alignment with CEDS - v2.0 Real-use feedback from the community –Texas, Delaware, Colorado –Shared Learning Collaborative (North Carolina, New York, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts) Integrate other related efforts –Shared Learning Collaborative –LRMI –Harvard Strategic Data Project Address a backlog of upgrades, feedback and fixes Incorporate disruptive changes now to ease adoption for the long term

18. Ed-Fi 1.1 What’s New Continued CEDS alignment Increased Common Core support New Domain: Interventions Person generalization Mostly optional Ed-Fi XML schema Optional core updates for REST ID/IDREFS and ReferenceTypes Descriptors © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 18

19. Continued CEDS alignment Incorporated K-12 additions as appropriate Note: CEDS 2.0 incorporated many Ed-Fi 1.1 elements and enumerations Re-aligned enumerations that changed in 2.0 Assessments and Learning standards Deferred - Early Childhood and Postsecondary extensions Deferred - Areas where CEDS 3.0 is still fluid © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 19

20. Common Core Support LearningObjectives organize the levels of the standards –Reflect the Common Core Sections and Strands LearningStandards reflect the individual standards to be taught –Learning Standards can be decomposed into lower level standards by organizations Assessments, Courses, GradebookEntries, and Intervention Content may be linked with LearningObjectives and LearningStandards

21. New Domain: Interventions Intervention - action taken with one student or a cohort of students InterventionPrescription - published blueprint for the intervention EducationContent - Link with metadata (or LRMI metadata) to content linked to the Intervention or InterventionPrescription InterventionStudy - Link with metadata to published research on the effectiveness of an intervention InterventionEffectiveness - Effectiveness by student for an intervention

22. Person Generalization Person added as the generalization for Student, Staff and Parent CEDS has a Person-Role-Organization model –Ed-Fi already has associations for the roles (e.g., StudentSchoolAssociation) Optional PersonUniqueStateId supports states that have a single Id across all Persons

23. Mostly optional Ed-Fi XML schema Transactional use of the XML schemas requires more flexibility –Partial updates would only provide changed elements –Supports the new REST interface under development Users need to make sure key elements are mandatory in the interchanges A few elements remain mandatory –Association “ends” –Where absolutely required for “keys”

24. ID/IDREFS and ReferenceTypes ReferenceTypes support references to entities and associations already loaded or within the same XML file –1.1 will have a full complement of Reference Types –Separates concepts of key reference from lookup on other attributes ID/IDREFS support references to entities and associations within the same XML file

25. Removed anonymous numeric type definitions Anonymous numeric types were replaced with named numeric types to allow proper restriction for customization.[48] –BellSchedule – WeeksInCycle –Course - NumberOfParts –CourseTranscript - GradeEarned –Grade – GradeEarned –GradingPeriod –TotalInstructionDays –MeetingTime – WeekNumber –ReportCard - NumberOfDaysAbsent, NumberOfDaysInAttendance, NumberOfDaysTardy –Section - SequenceOfCourse StudentGradebookEntry – GradeEarned –AdditionalCredits – Credit –Address – StreetNumberName –Credits – Credit –GradePointAverage - GPA

26. Descriptors Enumeration dilemma –Code lists standardized within the xsd –States use different code lists and change as education laws and policies change –Using codes (01, 02,..) versus short descriptions Descriptors –Moves enumerations from xsd into data (descriptor) to support enumerations that can align with those defined and published by a State or other organization

27. Descriptors Support references by either code or short description Effective dates to model change over time Can link to prior descriptor for longitudinal analysis Linked to a namespace that defines their scope Most map a to common denominator of enumerations to support analysis across states

28. Defining an enumeration vs. descriptor With enums, values are fixed in the xsd With descriptors, values are defined in data, in an xml file http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/weds/index.html?Code=C062 27 Minimum Minimum High School Program TAC Chapter 74, revised September 1, 2005; including TAC §89.1070(b)(2) for students receiving special education services, revised August 1, 2002. (for students who entered grade 9 in 2007-2008 and thereafter) 2007-09-30

29. Assigning values to enumeration vs. descriptor … Recommended … With enumerations: With descriptors: … http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teds/index.html?Code=C062 28 … … http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teds/index.html?Code=C062 Recommended …

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