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, ...
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. ...
Curriculum
Definition: A plan of instruction that details what students are to know, how they are to learn it, what the teacher's role is, and the context in which learning and teaching will take place. (As defined by the SIF Association.) What This ...
CSV (Comma Separated Value)
Definition: CSV or comma-separated values (or comma delimited) describes a data file in which there is a comma between two pieces of data to allow applications to read the information correctly. What This Means: This is one of the most significant aspects ...
Crosswalking
Definition: Crosswalking (at times called mapping) is matching a data element in one location with a data element in another location. Crosswalking is typically used to show which data element in a source file will be moved into a designated field ...
Crosswalk
Definition: Crosswalks establish how values in one system are transformed into values in another system. What This Means: The last name, first name, middle initial, birth date, and gender fields as defined in one application’s database must be crosswalked to the first ...
Cross-Collection Clean-Up Window Opening Date
Definition: Cross-Collection Clean-Up Window Opening Date is the beginning date of the period of time allowed for resolving data issues/edits across collections. What This Means: A term that is functional for users of ESP's metadata dictionary tool, called DataSpecs. DataSpecs is used ...
Cross-Collection Clean-Up Window Closing Date
Definition: Cross-Collection Clean-Up Window Closing Date is the ending date of the period of time allowed for resolution of data issues/edits across collections. What This Means: A term that is functional for users of ESP's metadata dictionary tool, called DataSpecs. DataSpecs is ...
CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
Definition: A term representing the business strategy built around the concept of improved customer service. The CRM definition involves all aspects of communications an organization has with its clients. What This Means: Typically this term refers to a software application used to ...
Coverage Period Start Date
Definition: Coverage Period Start Date is the beginning date of a time period reflected in the data reported for a particular collection due date. What This Means: A term that is functional for users of ESP's metadata dictionary tool, called DataSpecs. DataSpecs ...
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