This Week In IPEDS (TWII)

TRP Suggestions Available for Comment

Suggestions from the most recent meeting of the IPEDS Technical Review Panel are posted at https://edsurveys.rti.org/IPEDS_TRP/ and are currently open for comment. Suggestions are from Technical Review Panel #44, “Improvements to the Human Resources Survey for Degree-Granting Institutions,” that was held July 22 and 23, 2014, in Washington DC. Comments from interested parties should be sent to Janice Kelly-Reid, IPEDS Project Director at RTI International, at ipedsTRPcomment@rti.org, and are due by November 14, 2014.

CEDS Version 5 Public Review Draft Released: Comments Due 11/13

The draft of the Version 5 Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) has been released for public comment. All are encouraged to review the draft standards and submit comments by November 13th via the CEDS website at: http://ceds.ed.gov/Version5Draft.aspx. There are over 100 proposed new V5 elements, as well as some updated elements from the previous version of CEDS. Many existing elements have be adapted for additional use cases and to stay in sync with developments by various programs and initiatives using education data. In total, the proposed CEDS Version 5 includes over 1,400 unduplicated elements. The Version 5 draft spans P-20W (early learning through workforce).

Please note the Version 5 draft elements are accessible by the CEDS element page (http://ceds.ed.gov/Version5Draft.aspx) or by Excel download (https://ceds.ed.gov/CEDSDownloads.aspx). The draft elements are NOT included in the data model (DES or NDS) or the CEDS Tools (Align and Connect). Once the elements have gone through the review process and been revised as final they will be included in the models and tools with the V5 release in January, 2015.

CEDS supports the development of a common vocabulary for P-20W education data. It is a collection of definitions and formats for the most commonly used P-20W education data elements, but does not dictate how individual data systems collect, store, and report data. CEDS is developed each year by stakeholder communities, but is also equally shaped by those that provide feedback during this public comment period.

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