A Vision and Roadmap for Education Statistics (2022) / Chapter Skim
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Partner with External Researchers and Analysts for Evidence Building As described in the Evidence Act: • Statistical agencies are presumed to be able to access any data asset held by any executive agency for the purpose of developing evidence, with limitations.29 • Statistical agencies must expand access to their data for the pur poses of developing evidence, while also protecting the data from inappropriate access and use.30 • Statistical agencies must establish an agency-level process adhering to the Standard Application Process (established by the director of the Office of Management and Budget) so that "agencies, the Congressional Budget Office, state, local, and Tribal governments, researchers, and other individuals, as appropriate, may apply to access" data for evidence building.31 To support NCES's expanded role in data governance and evidence building, NCES can leverage its existing data-licensing program to further expand access to data while also directing and participating in research and analysis.
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By establishing a JSRP aspect to its data-licensing program, NCES can provide data access to external analysts, while also collaborating with those analysts to learn about the Center's datasets. A JSRP can be used to improve methods, evaluate data quality and fitness for purpose, study trends, and understand questions and emerging issues.
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Such collaborations could aid NCES both by leveraging external federal resources and best practices to expand the Center's extramural research program, and by leveraging external analytic resources to expand education evidence building. 32 See IES's NAEP Secondary Analysis Grants Program awards from 2002 to 2007: https://ies.
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The panel applauds NCES's efforts to make complex data available to the public via tools such as the College Navigator (NCES, 2021c)
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For example, the Urban Institute's Education Data Portal project provides most of NCES's administrative data in API format for ready access and adds further value by harmonizing variables for easy comparison across datasets and time.37 College Navigator could possibly be run through an API, or topical searches could be addressed through an API. NCES might sponsor a hackathon or competition to promote the development of APIs, which, at the same time, could further promote NCES.
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To assist state and local school districts that have few resources for data analysis, NCES needs to deliver products that help LEAs improve their districts' schools and student outcomes. Products such as NCES's Public School District Finance Peer Search (NCES, 2021i)
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. The panel urges NCES to assess its collections to determine which purposes can tolerate, with transparency, a slightly reduced level of data quality with the potential for revision.
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, information grouped by topic area for novice users, search engine optimization, school climate survey data Local school Tools for putting NAEP School Adding analytic and district test scores, school Profiles features, tools, administrators climate measures, or templates that and other data into provide statistical context testing for samples; links to curated resources that can serve as starting points for researching interventions; small(er) area estimates; data on teacher workforce and retention
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guidance Data Standards, Classification of Secondary School Courses, School Codes for the Exchange of Data State chiefs of Funding for states Statewide State-level liaisons education to collect and Longitudinal Data maintain statewide Systems Grant longitudinal data Program, School systems; tested, Climate Surveys vetted measures and/ or instruments that can be used at the state and local levels U.S. Department of Acquisition, International Automated scoring, Education, domestic analysis, processing, Activities Program automated item and international and maintenance (surveys combined generation, natural leaders and policy of data that allows with assessments)
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Also, the U.S. Census Bureau's Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division considers it acceptable to use peer reviewers outside of the author's branch but internal to the agency.
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