Overview: The National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES) hosts an annual conference, called the STATS-DC Data
Conference, on education data. The 2015 conference, held this past July,
addressed the theme "Strong Uses for Strong Data." Sessions at the
conference addressed topics such as Common Core, data collection, data
linking beyond K-12, data management, data privacy, data quality, Common
Education Data Standards (CEDS), data use (analytical and
instructional), and Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS).
A conference presentation by IECAM staff provided examples
of how IECAM: (1) served a wide range of data needs of ISBE, ELC
committees, and the Governor’s Office; (2) responded to stakeholders’
mapping needs; and (3) addressed a local organization’s question about
data discrepancies that involved testing the accuracy of ACS estimates
on dropout rates against ISBE records.
This webinar will review IECAM's presentation at this
conference. It will then provide summaries of a few of the many sessions
on data topics related to early childhood education. These summaries
address unduplicated counts of children across programs; a review of
school district boundaries and the school attendance boundary survey;
and NCES's MapEd Web site.
http://iecam.illinois.edu
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