Longitudinal Data System
Definition: A data system capable of tracking student information over multiple years across multiple data sources. What This Means: Records for mobile students can be combined across schools, districts, even states. Progress of students can be tracked across test administrations, grade levels, ...
Longitudingal Data Store
Definition: A longitudinal data store holds data in a format optimized for linking records across years and across entities (e.g., schools, districts, etc.). What This Means: Not everything needs to be linked across years--or can be. Many processes do not need to ...
Longitudinal Data
Definition: Longitudinal data represent more than one point in time about an individual, program, or organization. What This Means: In education, decision makers want to consider not just the status of a school, program, or student, but also the trend. Making progress ...
Logical Data Model
Definition: A logical data model (LDM) in systems engineering is a representation of an organization's data, organized in terms of a particular data management technology. What This Means: In the national education environment, the National Education Data Model (NEDM) is emerging as ...
List of Field Names
Definition: List of Field Names is a pick-list of Collection Item names which may be selected for use in the rule. What This Means: A term that is functional for users of ESP's metadata dictionary tool, called DataSpecs. DataSpecs is used when ...
Liquidity
Definition: Liquidity is the characteristic of data to be interchangeable from the currency of one organization's system to another. What This Means: Liquidity for education information systems is not an institutionalized term. The characteristics of liquidity should include the capability of data ...
Link URL
Definition: Link URL is the hyperlink URL (uniform resource locator) specifying where the Associated Link is available. What This Means: A term that is functional for users of ESP's metadata dictionary tool, called DataSpecs. DataSpecs is used when developing an education agency's ...
Link Notes
Definition: Link Notes are the free-form text notes about the Associated Link. What This Means: A term that is functional for users of ESP's metadata dictionary tool, called DataSpecs. DataSpecs is used when developing an education agency's data dictionary. Need another definition?
Link Description
Definition: Link Description is a narrative description of the contents of the associated links. It is the free-form text description of the Associated Link. What This Means: A term that is functional for users of ESP's metadata dictionary tool, called DataSpecs. DataSpecs ...
Level 1, 2, 3 Support
Definition: Multi-tiered support is used to efficiently answer basic to advanced technical questions. The levels of support define which resource is going to handle which support requests, as well as the protocols and escalation measures to be used for requesting and ...
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