Editing Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) (section)

===The Integrated Data Store (IDS)===

CEDS supports standardizing educational organizations and their relationships with other organizations, people, and time. The Integrated Data Store is a reference model for operational implementations aligned to the CEDS standards. The P-20W focus of CEDS is supporting a transition from siloed, domain-specific, or location-specific, data sets to data that is compatible across domains and geographic boundaries. In addition to existing state and federal reporting and for analysis and comparison of aggregate statistics, the standards support data that moves with a learner from an early learning program to K12 to postsecondary to adult education and workforce learning programs. The latest release of CEDS also focuses on use cases that support people’s relationship with learning processes — the inputs, process steps (work), and outputs of learning — beginning with learning standards and assessments.

The IDS is a 3rd normal form structure organized around the key concepts of organization, person, and role. The IDS was developed with the goal of supporting physical implementations that could function as an “operational data store” for integrated P-20W data providing the most current available view of each organization, person, and role.
The IDS starts with a flexible directory of organizations that may have multiple parent-child relationships with each other. People exist independently, but they do not have roles outside of their relationship to a specific organization for a specific date range. Each person shares common attributes, or data points, that allow us to represent all levels as ‘Persons.’ Each Person has one or more ‘roles.’ Roles are a time-aware association between a Person and an Organization.

At the intersection of organizations, persons, and learning resources are key learning processes. CEDS includes learning resources and process data elements definitions, such as learning standards, learning goals, learner assignments, learner activity, and learner achievements. Also defined in CEDS are the data elements and relationships covering formative, summative, and benchmark assessment processes.

Helpful link to explore the CEDS Integrated Data Store:
* [https://ceds.ed.gov/dataModelNDS.aspx Integrated Data Store]