Politimetrics
Definition: Politimetrics is both the cause and the result of a political decision about the appropriate psychometrics to use when establishing cutpoints and other criteria for success. What This Means: Most decisions about where to set the score for proficiency, how many ...
Platform Dependent
Definition: Platform dependent means that an application runs under only one operating system and runs in only one series of computers (one operating environment). What This Means: If you buy a platform dependent application, you have to have or buy the computer ...
Platform
Definition: The platform includes the operating system or software tool set upon which an application runs or was developed. What This Means: Platform is significant because it determines and limits the compatibility of hardware or software with others. Education agencies at times ...
Pilot Program
Definition: A pilot program is a test run of a software application before full implementation. What This Means: Pilot programs take many forms. Some use volunteers, some carefully select a representative sample of users to ensure all possible issues are identified. A ...
Physical Data Model
Definition: A physical data model (a.k.a. database design) is a representation of a data design which takes into account the facilities and constraints of a given database management system. A complete physical data model will include all the database artifacts required ...
Phone
Definition: The phone number associated with the contact or data steward for the office. What This Means: A term from DataSpecs. Need another definition?
PESC (Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council)
Definition: The Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council is a voluntary membership organization that develops standards for exchanging higher education data. What This Means: PESC has developed an XML format for exchanging high school transcripts. Need another definition?
Periodicity
Definition: The schedule on which data are collected or reported. What This Means: Periodicity is important because it defines when data must be collected and when data will be reported. Combine this concept with official data and an agency has a calendar ...
PDBMI (Performance-Based Data Management Inititative)
Definition: The Performance-Based Data Management Initiative was a pilot program to enable states to compile data normally submitted to the U.S. Department of Education into a standard format for electronic submission. It later became known as the EDEN. What This Means: PBDMI ...
Parent
Definition: Parent is the name of the immediate parent option set in the hierarchy for an option set that is a subset within an option set hierarchy. For example, the option set "Primary grade codes" (grades K-3) are a subset of ...
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