This Week In IPEDS (TWII)

Net Price Calculator Template Update

The 2013-14 version of the U.S. Department of Education's Net Price Calculator template is now available at the Department's Net Price Calculator Information Center (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/Section/Net_price_calculator). Other materials such as an updated Quick Start Guide, source code, and the Expected Family Contribution (EFC) tables used in the template are also available.

CEDS Version 5 Released

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is pleased to announce the release of Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) Version 5. CEDS is a national collaborative effort to develop voluntary, common data standards for a key set of education data elements to streamline the exchange, comparison, and understanding of data within and across P-20W institutions and sectors. CEDS Version 5 includes a broad scope of elements spanning much of the P-20W spectrum and includes nearly 250 new and updated data elements and 1,580 unique elements.

Some Highlights of the Version 5 Release:

• Nearly 250 new and updated data elements including: Assessment updates based on feedback from the assessment consortia; Early learning finance & family supports; Postsecondary performance indicators; Teacher prep program evaluation; Veteran and military status; Career pathways (AE/WF); Learner experience, and Learning resource metadata additions based on input from LRMI, LR, assessment consortia and other communities.
• Tool and Web site improvements: ALIGN: users can now check the consistency of your mapping through the “Validate Consistency” report; CONNECT: the search function has been redesigned so that it is more user friendly and the search terms are more robust; MyCONNECT: added the option to see the results across multiple maps rather than results appearing consecutively; EXPLORE: a new option under Tools called “Explore” that allows users to access Align and Connect reports more quickly; When viewing elements: Related Domains, Entities, and Categories now have the locations hyperlinked and a new “Switch to DES View” button.

Version 5 of CEDS can be found at the CEDS website: http://ceds.ed.gov. On the home page there is a "What's New V5" video that explains some of this year's updates.

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