Cycle Time
Definition: The elapsed time taken for a process to be completed. What This Means: Reducing cycle time is a significant factor in improving processes. For education, an excellent example has been the reduction in cycle time for scoring and reporting assessment results. ...
D3M (Data-Driven Decision Making)
Definition: When a decision is based upon supportive data rather than opinion or personal experience. What This Means: Decision makers can be anyone in the education arena—parents, taxpayers, teachers, policy makers, legislators, etc. When one of the stakeholders must make a choice, ...
D3M Framework
Definition: The D3M Framework is ESP’s definition of the components and their relationships as required for an education enterprise information system, or, to use NCES’s terminology, a longitudinal data system. What This Means: The D3M Framework provides a comprehensive, high-level picture of ...
Dashboard
Definition: An online tool for graphically displaying a complex sets of indicators. What This Means: Educators, administrators, parents, and others can use dashboards to get a quick overall picture of student data. Dashboard seems to be an archaic, limited analogy for the ...
Data Access And Management Policy
Definition: A Data Access and Management Policy is a document describing the policies and procedures used by an education agency to ensure the confidentiality and security of student and staff data. It is based on state laws and regulations as well ...
Data Architecture
Definition: Data architecture describes how data are processed, stored, and utilized. What This Means: An education agency must have a clear data architecture to manage the flow of data in and across all information systems. Need another definition?
Data Backup
Definition: The act of creating a second copy of your important documents somewhere other than your computer's hard drive. What this means: If you don't back up your data, you risk losing it to a virus, computer crash, accidental keystroke, theft, ...
Data Dictionary
Definition: A data dictionary is a centralized repository of information about data such as meaning, relationships to other data, origin, usage, and format. What This Means: To the educator, the data dictionary is the authoritative course for definitions, codes, and interpretations for ...
Data Governance
Definition: Data Governance is the structure, policies, and processes established by an organization to oversee and manage the collection, storage, and reporting of data. The U.S. Department of Education’s definition is “Data Governance is an organizational approach to data and information ...
Data Governance
Definition: Data Governance is the structure, policies, and processes established by an organization to oversee and manage the collection, storage, and reporting of data. The U.S. Department of Education’s definition is “Data Governance is an organizational approach to data and information management ...
