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Appendix A: Glossary of Terms and Acronyms Used in This Report
Pages 141-156

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... These sources are alternative to the collection of data using surveys and censuses, the traditional federal statistical approaches (though many of the traditional approaches have relied on 141
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... government statistical activities. BPS "Each cycle of the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS)
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... CEDS "The Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) are a national, collaborative effort to develop voluntary, common education data standards for a key subset of K–12 (e.g., demographics, program participation, course information)
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... ECPP Early Childhood Program Participation, a module of the National Household Education Survey. See Table B-1 for more detail.
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... , one of a series of six longitudinal studies following middle- or high-school students through school and sometimes beyond. Depending on the survey, the data include surveys of students, parents, teachers, school administrators, student assessments in math and English, and high school transcripts.
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... U.S. law on confidential information protection and statistical efficiency defines evidence as "information produced as a result of statistical activities conducted for a statistical purpose" (44 U.S.
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... . HSLS High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, one of a series of six longitudinal studies following middle- or high-school students through school and sometimes beyond.
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... LEA Local education agency. MGLS2017 Middle Grades Longitudinal Survey.
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... , one of a series of six longitudinal studies following middle- or high-school students through school and sometimes beyond. Depending on the survey, the data include surveys of students, parents, teachers, school administrators, student assessments in math and English, and high-school transcripts.
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... NSOPF The National Study of Postsecondary Faculty was "a nationally representative sample of full- and part time faculty and instructional staff at public and private not-for-profit 2- and 4-year institutions in the United States, designed to provide data about faculty and instructional staff to postsecondary education researchers and policy makers. There are no plans to repeat the study.
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... ORES Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, a statistical office in the Social Security Administration. PEELS The Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study collected data on "the preschool and early elementary school experiences of a nationally representative sample of children with disabilities and the outcomes they achieved, and included children's preschool environments and experiences, their transition to kindergarten, their kindergarten and early elementary education experiences, and their academic and adaptive skills" (National Center for Special Education Research, 2021)
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... . Randomized Provides one form of experimental data, frequently controlled trial viewed as the gold standard of experimental data (see Experimental data)
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... The school pulse panel is a monthly panel study to examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on K–12 public schools. It produces nationally representative data with a quick turnaround.
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... Office of Personnel Management, Policy, Data, Oversight: Senior Executive Service. Available: https://www.opm.gov/ policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/scientific senior-level-positions [March 2022]
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... . Web-scraping An automated process of collecting data from an method online source.


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