The CIID Data Integration Toolkit is designed to support state education agency (SEA) efforts to integrate Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) data with their statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDSs), and includes a sample road map articulating typical steps and tasks required for integration; a sequential process for integrating data; and specific activities and resources […]
CEDS offers a common vocabulary to help education stakeholders understand and use education data. It is organized by a Domain Entity Schema, which provides a hierarchy of domains, entities, categories, and elements. Visit CEDS Website
This 2014 webinar from the Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grant Program featured staff from the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS) discussing the technical process and considerations involved in integrating early childhood data from new sources, as well as providing examples of the practical application of the linked data. View SLDS Webinar Archive
This 2015 webinar from the Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grant Program featured representatives from Kentucky, Washington State, and Michigan discussing their different processes for resolving multiple IDs, as well as how they review and improve those processes. View SLDS Webinar Archive
This 2014 guidance document from the U.S. Department of Education offers a “crosswalk” of IDEA Part B, IDEA Part C, and FERPA for a variety of confidentiality topics, including consent, inspection and review, retention of records, procedural safeguards, and dispute resolution. View IDEA and FERPA Confidentiality Provisions (PDF)
This short video from the Connecticut Birth to Three System can help parents and service coordinators with the family survey that is sent out to families in Birth to Three for at least 6 months as of Feb 1st each year.
The Center for the Integration of IDEA Data (CIID) provides technical assistance to state education agencies (SEAs) to increase the capacity to report high quality data required under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part B Sections 616 and 618. CIID supports the integration of IDEA data systems and processes with the Statewide Longitudinal […]
Common Educational Data Standards (CEDS) Connect allows stakeholders across the P20W spectrum to address, define, and calculate metrics and indicators such as graduation rates, program enrollment, and academic outcomes. It allows you to define and analyze data used for reporting to the Federal government, and is an excellent tool for deconstructing policy or research questions. […]
Align enables you to align (or map) your data dictionary (element names, definitions and option sets) to CEDS. The alignment creates a map that can be used with CEDS reports to see how your data dictionary aligns with the CEDS standard, or with others in the field. The reports can also help you identify where […]
This is a set of Critical Questions that a quality state data system for early intervention (EI) or early childhood special education (ECSE) should provide the data to answer. The answers to these questions serve various functions, including supporting the state agency in effectively administering the program, meeting accountability requirements for EI and ECSE, and […]
