What we mean when we use a term in our DaSy resources and other work we do with states.
Definitions are provided below and in pop-up text throughout the site for easy reference.
For each term, the glossary provides the:
- Definition: A brief explanation of what the term means
- Source: The source of this information or notation that the definition is “DaSy-developed”
- DaSy Framework Component: The data-related topic(s) addressed in the DaSy Data System Framework to which the term relates
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- Access*
- Accountability
- Accuracy
- Anonymization
- Anonymized
- Application
- Authorization
- BIPOC
- Business intelligence
- Business requirements
- Business rules
- CDC
- Centralized data system
- CHIP
- Continuous improvement
- CPS
- CSHCN
- Culture of data use
- Cycle of inquiry
- Dashboard
- Data analysis
- Data audit
- Database
- Database application
- Database applications
- Data breach
- Data culture
- Data dictionary
- Data display
- Data element
- Data governance
- Data-informed decision-making
- Data integration
- Data integrity
- Data linking
- Data linking use case
- Data literacy
- Data matching
- Data model
- Data partnership
- Data privacy
- Data quality
- Data security
- Data sharing
- Data sharing agreement
- Data system
- Data teams
- Data validation check
- Data visualization
- Date tickler
- De-Identified data
- Deployment
- Disclosure
- Disclosure avoidance
- Early Childhood Education Program
- Early Childhood Integrated Data System (ECIDS)
- Early intervention record
- ECIDS
- ECSE
- Edit-check routines
- Educational agency
- Education and Early Intervention Record Code
- Education record
- EI
- EIS
- Evidence-based practices
- Family Data Leader
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
- Federated data system
- FERPA
- Fidelity threshold
- Hardware
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- IDEA
- IEP
- IFSP
- IFSP
- Implementation fidelity
- Infographics
- Information Technology (IT) Team
- Interagency Coordinating Council
- Interface (or graphical user interface)
- Interoperability
- Intervention fidelity
- IT Team
- K–12
- LEA
- Legacy data
- Load
- Logic model
- Management
- Management plan
- Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
- Mock-ups
- Outcomes
- P-20W+ data system
- Performance indicator
- Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
- PII
- Portal
- Practice change
- Practices
- Practitioner
- Process model
- Program improvement
- Program operations
- Purge
- Purpose and vision
- QRIS
- Querying parameters
- Query tool
- Redaction
- Reliability
- Requirements analysis
- Root cause
- SLDS
- Software
- SSI
- Staging
- Stakeholder engagement
- Stakeholders
- State advisory panel
- Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS)
- Subject-matter expert
- Sustainability
- System acceptance testing
- System deployment
- System design
- System development
- System initiation (or system planning)
- System requirements analysis
- Technical architecture
- Transactional data system
- Unique child identifier
- Unique ID
- Unique identifier
- Validity
- WIC