A Vision and Roadmap for Education Statistics (2022) / Chapter Skim
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currently exists for growing and replenishing the Center's users and 16 The non-NAEP data collections include: Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Fast Response Survey System, High School and Beyond Longitudinal Survey, High School Longitudinal Study, Middle Grades Longitudinal Study, National Household Education Survey, National Teacher and Principal Survey, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, Program for International Student Assessment, School Survey on Crime and Safety, and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. 17 NCES document provided to the panel, "2019 Report to OMB on the NCES Implementa tion of the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA)
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The NCES staff person who led the effort took this function with him when he moved to OPEPD. Compared to other federal statistical agencies, NCES provides significant technical assistance to ED (see Chapter 2)
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CONCLUSION 5-1: NCES's current organizational structure, with statistical programs separated by data source type (sample surveys and administrative data) , contributes to silos that limit innovation.
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CONCLUSION 5-2: NCES's current overreliance on contractors and its high turnover rate endanger the Center's ability to retain institutional knowledge and build internal capabilities needed to meet its strategic goals. 23 See: https://ies.ed.gov/director/remarks/5-12-2020.asp [March 2022]
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In contrast to NCES's current organizational structure, with three primary divisions that are grouped by data source (i.e., assessments, surveys, administrative data; see NCES, 2021b) , BTS is organized by topic and function.
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Another creative way to build staff capabilities and capacity is by estab lishing senior level and senior technical positions, which are not subject to Senior Executive Service caps.28 The U.S. Census Bureau and Energy Information Administration were among the first statistical agencies to make use of Senior Level and Senior Technical positions; this strategy has since been introduced to other agencies, such as the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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Other federal statistical agencies have found user groups to be an invaluable resource for building internal capacity without necessarily adding headcount. Each of these mechanisms can work as force multipliers, replenishing and renewing an agency's workforce.
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Census Bureau to 31 Federal Acquisition Regulation § 16.504. Available: https://www.acquisition.gov/far/16.504 [March 2022]
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The panel advises that NCES, in collaboration with IES, explore ways to bring together grant-making authority and contracts for producing statistical products, such that IES and its centers can work collaboratively with NCES to generate ideas, test those ideas in the research space, and subsequently operationalize those ideas.
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The panel proposes a bold vision of NCES as a leader in the education data ecosystem. This report reflects the panel's efforts to reimagine what NCES can be, with each recommendation playing a role in manifesting that vision.
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. For example, Chapter 3 discusses those areas in which NCES provides strong measures relating to equity and those areas where it does not, and Chapter 4 provides example of how other federal statistical agencies can produce more timely results by incorporating fewer layers of review.
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