A Vision and Roadmap for Education Statistics (2022) / Chapter Skim
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Expand NCES's Role Enabling Data Access to Serve and Engage Stakeholders RECOMMENDATION 4-4: NCES should strengthen state capacity to link data across systems, adopt shared data standards, and provide actionable information to state and local education agencies to help improve student learning outcomes. NCES can leverage its Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grant Program to achieve this goal.
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NCES can support its expanded role in data governance and evidence building by leveraging its existing data-licensing program while also direct ing data analysis. ED will make faster progress in its evidence-building efforts by both broadening the community of researchers and policy makers that can access data for analysis and by signaling important topics, such as those for which NCES especially wants data.
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Theme: Transform Internal Structure and Operations to Align with and Directly Support the Strategic Plan RECOMMENDATION 5-1: NCES should utilize contractors and cre ative staffing arrangements to work collaboratively with staff to build internal capacity. To enhance resilience, NCES should also explore greater use of flexible contract types, stronger incentives for con tractors to adopt cost-effective innovations, and performance-based requirements.
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It is used to express the average number of dollars managed by each agency staff member. NCES has a budget-to-staff ratio of approximately $2.75M per FTE -- more than seven times the median ratio for the 13 principal federal statistical agencies -- according to American Statistical Association–compiled data for the 13 federal statistical agencies (Pierson, 2021)
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Policy makers are increasingly reliant on data, as momentum for evidence-based decision making increases. To support these diversifying and expanding demands, the nation needs an education statistics agency that leads the production and distribution of high-quality data that are useful, timely, and responsive to the needs of many stakeholders.
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. Context and Mandates Thirteen principal statistical agencies, including NCES, and 96 smaller statistical programs and units comprise the federal statistical system.
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NCES also represents ED on the OMB-chaired Federal Geographic Data Committee.1 In 2020, NCES was the third largest statistical agency in terms of budget, but the ninth largest in terms of staff. "The majority of the 13 Principal Statistical Agencies (PSA)
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A commissioner heads the Center, and there are three divisions, all of which collect or compile data. Each division represents a different type of data source: Sample Surveys, Administrative Data, and Assessments.
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. CHARGE TO THE PANEL In 2021, to keep pace with the changes in education and the emergence of new data sources and technology, the director of IES asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to recommend a vision 5 The statistics count includes the Administrative Data Division, Sample Surveys Division and its predecessors, Statistical Standards and Data Confidentiality Staff, Annual Reports and Information Staff, and the Office of the Commissioner FTEs working on statistics.
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Particularly innovative studies include NPSAS and the School Pulse Panel. NPSAS is a combination of a sample survey with an administrative records collection for a national probability sample of students.
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Administrative records collections inform key NCES products, such as the Common Core of Data (CCD) and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.
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(NCES Administrative Records Division) • The National Forum on Education Statistics, which facilitates the exchange of ideas among states (NCES Statistical Standards and Data Confiden tiality Staff)
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