Ed-Fi Working Draft 10: Early Childhood Domain Model
Technical Suite: Suite 3
Status: Draft

Synopsis


This Working Draft outline a proposed new Early Childhood domain model for the Ed-Fi Data Standard.


Contents


General Discussion

State Education Agencies have been collecting data from early childhood education. They collect data from students enrolled in public PreK offered by the public school district, for both regular and special education students. Some states also collect data from students enrolled in private community providers. States also collect data from those who are not currently enrolled but are receiving special education services.  The purpose of reporting these data is to show that a program is helping children and their families, so that the public will continue to support and fund these programs. Due to increasing interest in high-quality and accountable programming, the demand for proper data collection and storing of early childhood data is increasing. There is a need to address states’ need in collecting and storing early childhood data.

Some states have been using the Ed-Fi K-12 domain model for enrollment and demographic entities to fit in data from early childhood education. They would create Ed-Fi extensions to support enrollment and participation in early childhood-specific programs. There is a need for Ed-Fi to have an early childhood domain model that collects information about students, their enrollment, and which programs they are enrolled in and the beginning and end dates of enrollment in such programs.

Background & Field Research

For the early childhood education model, SEA Working groups will assume that for public Pre-K schools, the data will come in via SIS and should use the core Ed-Fi K-12 model but with extended attributes. For community providers (private early learning centers), the data may or may not come from SIS. Students may receive special education services without being enrolled in a public Pre-K or community provider. New domain entities will be developed to support early learning services by community providers that are collected by the states.

Use Cases


Use Case 1. Public school district case. In this use case, data collection is for students who are enrolled in Pre-K grade level offered by a public school district. Students’ enrollment, demographics, ethnicity and contact information will be collected.  For SPED students, SPED program association data will be collected additionally. Discipline, attendance and schedule data will not be a part of this.

Use Case 2. State-funded private early learning centers case. In this use case, data collection is for students enrolled in private community providers for Pre-K that are funded by the state. Similar with the public school district case,  For SPED students, SPED program association data will be collected additionally. Discipline, attendance and schedule data will not be a part of this. 

Working Draft Details


Early Childhood Domain Model

Early Childhood Domain Model Overview

CommunityOrganization & CommunityProvider

(Candidate CEDS attributes)

Childcare License (New) 

(Candidate CEDS attributes)

Quality Rating (New)

(Candidate CEDS attributes)

FamilyProfile (New)

(Candidate CEDS attributes)

StudentCommunityProviderAssociation (New)

The enrollment record for students in the CommunityProvider.

(Candidate CEDS attributes)

StudentEducationOrganizationEarlyChildhoodAssociation (New)

Holds student characteristics and demographics particular to early childhood and NOT in the StudentEducationOrganizationAssociation. Both the StudentEducationOrganizationAssociation and the StudentEducationOrganizationEarlyChildhoodAssociation are collected as part of the enrollment process for early childhood education for both schools and community providers. StudentEducationOrganizationEarlyChildhoodAssociation can also be used for Kindergarten enrollments that collect the early childhood data.

EarlyLearningPrograms (New)

(Candidate CEDS attributes)

StudentSchoolAssociation

For Early Learning program in public school.

Early Childhood UML Models

Assessment

EducationOrganization

Enrollment

Programs

Staff

Student Identification & Demographics