NCES Update

National Forum on Education Statistics

Summer 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

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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.