NCES Update
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Transcript of NCES Update
NCES Update
National Forum on Education StatisticsSummer Meeting
July 2013
Jack Buckley Commissioner,
National Center for Education Statistics
• NCES Reorganization
• NAEP’s Technology and Engineering Literacy Assessment
• College Scorecard and Related Tools
• Common Education Data Standards V 4.0
NCES is Reorganizing Into Three Line Divisions
Office of the Commissioner
Statistical Standards
Assessment Division
Sample Surveys Division
Administrative Data Division
Why Reorganize?• “Why not?” is not a good answer.• Some opportunities for synergy easier to manage
with structural change.• Key retirements coupled with flat budgets called
some of existing structure into question.• Longer-term changes in administrative education
data require fundamental rethinking of our role and structure.
• There are many wily bureaucrats in government—no reorganization plan survives first contact with the enemy.
• “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” –Woodrow Wilson
TNAEPTEL
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NAEP’s Technology and Engineering Literacy Assessment
• TEL puts the “TE” in “STEM”
• Framework developed ‘08-’10
• 8th grade sample in 2014
• Designed to measure capacity to use, understand, and evaluate technology as well as to understand technological principles and strategies needed to develop solutions and achieve goals.
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“Wells” Task
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College Scorecard V 1.0
Central Role of IPEDS Data for the Future
CEDS V4Update
http://ceds.ed.gov
CEDS Version 4 Schedule• Content Development (Spring/Summer)
• Early Learning, K12, Postsecondary• CTE, Adult Education, Workforce• P-20W (Cross-cutting)
• Public Review Period (September) • Content Revisions/Data Modeling (Fall)• Version 4 Release – January 2014
New V4 Content Areas (1 of 2) Early Learning
Assessment Staff Quality Measures Federal Collections
K-12 Virtual and Blended Learning Rubrics Budgets Allergy Profile Supporting Initiatives: LMRI, Learning Registry, Open
Badges, AIF/SIF/IMS, ED-Fi, SDP, Dynamic Learning Maps, etc.
New V4 Content Areas (2 of 2) Postsecondary
Federal Student Aid Course Information Student Success Measures
Adult Education Career pathways Postsecondary transition
Workforce Earnings Industry certification/licensure Program participation
Additional CEDS Version 4 Work
• Extend – NCES Handbooks• Align Support for non-SEA users (limited)• CEDS Align and Connect Enhancements• Collaboration with other initiatives• EDFacts contract - mapping federal program offices and seven states• EDFacts program has published the Connections needed for CCD, cohort grad rate, and assessment reporting just in the past week.