Forum

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Forums Role in Supporting National Data Standards

• NCES Summer Data Conference
• July 2009
• Kathy Gosa
• Kansas State Department of Education

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Leveraging Forum Products
Forum Product Kansas Initiative
Forum Guide to Metadata Metadata 101 professional development
Managing an Identity Crisis Materials guidance for LEAs to implement Race-Ethnicity regulations
Data Quality Curriculum Data Quality Certification program
Building a Culture of Data Quality Data Quality Certification program
Secondary School Course Classification System (SCED) Kansas Course Codes
Accounting for Every Student KIDS Collection System
Education Indicators KIDS Collection System
Elementary / Secondary Virtual Education Policy development
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National Data Standards

• We will be the ones who implement them.
• Will we just wait to see what happens?
• OR
• Will we participate and ensure the standards
• build on whats already in place
• are feasible
• are technically excellent

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Call to Action

• Our national leaders recognize that information
  is key to making a difference in education.
• Never before have the resources, the political
  will, and the common focus around education come
  together quite so intensely as they are today.

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What needs to be done?

• We cant expect to do the same thing in the same
  way and get different results.
• Agree on our vision for the Forums role
• Perform a Gap Analysis
• Prioritize tasks and take action

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A Plan of Action

• Standing committees consider a common vision for
  the Forums role.
• Identify the components of that vision
• Common definitions, indicators, platforms, data
  model
• Standards for interoperability
• Determine our action steps and priorities
• Consider our current products
• Leverage states experience and best practices
• Who/How will we move forward?
• Working Groups and Task Forces?
• Standing Committees and the Steering Committee?
• Partnerships with SHEEO, DQC, AYPF, CCSSO and
  EIMAC, Vendors, SIFA and PESC, Others?

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Next Steps

• Proposed Vision
• The Forum will act as the authoritative body for
  defining and maintaining National Education Data
  Standards.
• Inventory (Forum products and other best
  practices)
• Gap (brainstorm what still needs to be done to
  reach our vision)
• Priority (what has to be done now, and what can
  wait? Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3)
• Plan (who should be responsible and what is the
  timeline?)