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Entity
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Description
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EL Organization
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An institution that provides early learning services. This can be a grantee with delegates at various locations, possibly in one or more buildings; it has an assigned administrator(s).
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EL Child
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A person for whom instruction, services, and/or care are provided in an early childhood program under the jurisdiction of a school, education agency, or other institution or program.
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Parent/Guardian
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A person having parental or legal guardianship responsibility for a learner.
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EL Family
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All persons (i) living in the same household who are (a) supported by the income of the parent(s) or guardian(s) of the child enrolling or participating in the program, or (b) related to the child by blood, marriage, or adoption; or (ii) related to the child enrolling or participating in the program as parents or siblings by blood, marriage, or adoption.
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EL Staff
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A person who performs specified activities for a public or private education institution, agency, or household that provides instructional and/or support services to students or staff at the early childhood level.
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EL Class/Group
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A cohort of children receiving services together, or in some cases individually, usually for a predetermined amount of time, with at least one assigned primary teacher.
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Early Learning Program
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An entity with information about a system of services, opportunities, or projects, designed to meet academic or non-academic needs. (A Program entity may be related to an organization as the service provider and to people as program staff, participants, and recipients of program services. CEDS broadly defines Program for information about program types such as work-study programs or athletic programs that are not specifically defined. CEDS also has more specific program entities such as PS Institution Program and CTE Program.)
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Elementary and Secondary (K12)
Elementary and Secondary (K12) is the CEDS domain on the formal instructional program whose curriculum is designed primarily for students who have entered kindergarten through those who have exited high school.
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Entity
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Description
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K12 School
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An institution that provides educational services, has one or more grade groups (PreK through 12), has one or more teachers, is located in one or more buildings, and has an assigned administrator(s).
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Local Education Agency (LEA)
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Local educational agency, or LEA, means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a state for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary schools or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a state, or for a combination of school districts or counties as are recognized in a state as an administrative agency for its public elementary schools or secondary schools.
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State Education Agency (SEA)
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The SEA is the state-level entity primarily responsible for the supervision of the state's public elementary and secondary schools.
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K12 Student
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A person for whom instruction, services, and/or care are provided in an elementary or secondary educational program under the jurisdiction of a school, education agency, or other institution or program.
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Parent/Guardian
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A person having parental or legal guardianship responsibility for a learner.
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K12 Staff
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An individual who performs specified activities for any public or private education institution, agency, or household that provides instructional and/or support services to students or staff at the early childhood level through high school completion.
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K12 Course
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The organization of subject matter and related learning experiences provided for the instruction of
students on a regular or systematic basis, usually for a predetermined period of time (e.g., a
semester or a two-week workshop) to an individual or group of
students (e.g., a class).
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Course Section
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A setting in which organized instruction of course content is provided to one or more students for a given period of time. (A K12 Course may be offered to more than one Course Section. Instruction may be delivered in person by one or more instructors or via a different medium. Sections that share space should be considered as separate Course Sections if they function as separate units for more than 50 percent of the time.)
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Organization
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An organization, institution, agency, or business referenced to by schools, social services, or other education agencies.
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Program
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A system of services, opportunities, or projects designed to meet academic or non-academic needs. (A Program entity may be related to an organization as the service provider, and to people as program staff, participants, or recipients of program services. CEDS broadly defines Program for information about program types, such as work-study programs or athletic programs, that are not specifically defined. CEDS also has more specific program entities, including PS Institution Program and CTE Program.)
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Incident
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An infraction ranging from a minor problem behavior that disrupts the orderly functioning of a
school or classroom (such as tardiness) to a criminal act that results in the involvement of a law
enforcement official (such as robbery). A single event (e.g., a fight) is
one incident regardless of how many perpetrators or victims are involved.
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Calendar
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A set of dates associated with an organization.
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Postsecondary (PS)
Postsecondary (PS) is the CEDS domain on the formal instructional program whose curriculum is
designed primarily for students who are beyond the compulsory age for high school. This includes
programs whose purpose is academic, vocational, and continuing professional education, and excludes
avocational and adult basic education programs. (See also the Integrated Postsecondary Education
Data
System [IPEDS]).
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Entity
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Description
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PS Institution
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An organization that provides educational programs for individuals who have completed or
otherwise left educational programs in secondary school(s).
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PS Student
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An individual who is a prospect, applicant, admitted student, enrolled student, or alum of a
postsecondary institution.
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PS Section
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A postsecondary instructional course in a particular field of study that typically involves a
prescribed number of instruction periods or meetings for enrolled students.
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PS Staff
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A person who performs specified activities for any public or private education institution, agency,
or household that provides instructional and/or support services to students or
staff at the postsecondary level.
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PS Applicant
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An individual who is an applicant of a postsecondary institution.
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Parent/Guardian
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A person having parental or legal guardianship responsibility for a learner.
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Learning Resource
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The CEDS entity that includes information about materials that support teaching and learning.
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Organization
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An organization, institution, agency or business referenced to by schools, social services, or
other education agencies.
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Career and Technical Education (CTE)
Career and Technical Education (CTE) is the CEDS domain on career and technical education programs,
as defined by Perkins IV, and information about the students served by these programs.
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Entity
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Description
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CTE Student
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A person for whom instruction, services, and/or care are provided in a Career and Technical
Education program and who has met the state-defined threshold of Career and Technical
Education participation, as defined in the state's approved Perkins IV State Plan.
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CTE Staff
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An individual who performs specified activities for any public or private education institution,
agency, or household that provides instructional and/or support services to students or staff
in a Career and Technical Education program.
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Program
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A system of services, opportunities, or projects designed to meet academic or non-academic needs.
(A Program entity may be related to an organization as the service provider and to people as
program staff, participants, and recipients of program services. CEDS broadly defines Program for
information about program types, such as work-study programs and athletic programs, that are not
specifically defined. CEDS also has more specific program
entities such as the CTE Program.)
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Course
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The organization of subject matter and related learning experiences provided for the
instruction of students on a regular or systematic basis, usually for a predetermined period of
time (e.g., a semester or a two-week workshop) to an individual or group of students (e.g., a
class).
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Course Section
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A setting in which organized instruction of the course content is provided to one or more students
for a given period of time. (A Course may be offered to more than one Course Section. Instruction
may be delivered in person by one or more instructors or via a different medium. Sections that
share space should be considered as separ te Course Sections if they
function as separate units for more than 50 percent of the time.)
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Adult Education (AE)
Adult Education (AE) is the CEDS domain on programs that help adults get the basic skills they need
to be productive workers, family members, and citizens. It includes information about the adults
served by
these programs.
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Entity
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Description
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AE Student
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A person for whom instruction and/or services are provided in an Adult Education program.
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AE Staff
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A person who is employed by an Adult Education program.
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AE Provider
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A program that helps adults get the basic skills they need to be productive workers, family
members, and citizens.
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Program
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A system of services, opportunities, or projects, designed to meet academic or non-academic needs.
(A Program entity may be related to an organization as the service provider and to people as
program staff, participants, or recipients of program services. CEDS broadly defines Program for
information about program types, such as work-study programs and athletic programs, that are not
specifically defined. CEDS also has more specific program entities such
as the CTE Program.)
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Course Section
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A setting in which the organized instruction of course content is provided to one or more students
for a given period of time. (A Course may be offered to more than one Course Section. Instruction
may be delivered in person by one or more instructors or via a different medium. Sections that
share space should be considered as separate Course Sections if they
function as separate units for more than 50 percent of the time.)
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Workforce
Workforce (WF) is the CEDS domain on people’s participation in workforce and employment development
programs, as well as on employment and earnings data that are matched between
education and workforce data sources.
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Entity
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Description
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Workforce Program Participant
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A person for whom instruction and/or services are provided in a workforce and/or an
employment development program.
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Quarterly Employment Record
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Person-level employment and earnings information from quarterly employment and earnings-related
data from sources such as State UI Wage Records, the Wage Record
Interchange System, or the Federal Employment Data Exchange System (FEDES).
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Assessments
Assessments is the CEDS domain that includes entities and elements to support the design,
administration, and scoring or evaluating the results of assessments used to measure one or more
persons’ mastery of one or more learning objectives.
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Entity
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Description
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Assessment
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An instrument used to evaluate a person with at least one form, section, and
Assessment Item. (A summative assessment typically addresses a particular level, subject, and date
range. A person's individual responses during the summative assessment administration are
evaluated, and then the results are scored using one or
more Assessment Subtest Scoring Rules.)
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Assessment Form
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An instance of an a sessment that can equate scores with another instance of that
same assessment.
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Assessment Session
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An entity with information related to an instance of delivering an assessment during a
specific period of time.
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Assessment Item
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A specific prompt that defines a question or protocol for a measurable activity that triggers a
response from a person used to determine whether the person has
mastered a learning objective.
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Assessment Asset
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An entity that represents content used to compose an Assessment Item, is referenced by an item but
not part of the item content itself, or is content that is included as part of a section within an
assessment form. Assets can be static content such as artwork or
dynamic assets such as calculators or other tools.
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Assessment Subtest
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An entity that defines information for scoring an Assessment Form based on a set of Assessment Item
responses with explicit rules to produce an Assessment Subtest Result, which may be for the entire
Assessment Form or one aspect of evaluation
based on a subset of Assessment Items.
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Assessment Result
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An entity that includes information about a person’s results from an assessment,
which may be for the entire assessment or one aspect of evaluation. The entity includes the score
value and information about the score, such as a diagnostic statement. Note that information for
interpreting an assessment result is available in the related Assessment Subtest information. This
includes the minimum, maximum, and optimal values for the measurement. The Subtest may in turn be
associated with one or more content standards using the Learning Standard Item Association entity.
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Assessment Registration
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An entity with information related to a specific person registered for an Assessment
Administration, assigned a specific Assessment Form for participation in one or more
Assessment Sessions.
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Assessment Administration
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Information related to an assessment event or administration period. It includes information rela
ed to the time period of administration and the place(s) of
administration.
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Assessment Personal Needs Profile
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An entity that includes information about the personal needs and preferences for assessment
participants, based on the IMS Global (R) Accessible Portable Item
Protocol.
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Assessment Participant Session
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An entity that includes information about a specific person’s participation in an
Assessment Session.
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Goal
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An entity that includes information about a goal set for a person or organization.
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Assessment Performance Level
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An entity that includes information about the performance levels that may be assigned to an
Assessment Result and specifications for selecting the performance level based on a score. Four
styles are supported:
1. Specification of performance level by lower and upper cut score
2. Specification of performance level by lower cut score only
3. Specification of performance level without any mapping to scores
4. Specification of performance level by mapping to other scores
Performance levels are repeatable. A list of all the possible performance levels for an Assessment
Result are derived from the relationship between Assessment Subtest and Assessment Performance
Level. The performance levels that have been met for a specific Assessment Result are derived from
the relationship between Assessment
Result and Assessment Performance Level.
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Learner Action
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An entity with information about learning experiences, including actions taken by or on behalf of a learner.
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Learner Activity
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An entity with information about a learning activity that may be assigned to a learner, for example a homework assignment.
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Rubric
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An entity with information that represents the set of criteria for measuring or scoring a task or work product for digital representation of holistic and analytic rubrics.
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Credentials
The CEDS domain that includes entities and elements that define attributes of a qualification,
achievement, personal or organizational quality, or aspect of an identity typically used to indicate suitability.
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Entity
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Description
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Credential Definition
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A resource that defines a competency or qualification, achievement, personal or organizational quality, experience, attribute, or aspect of an identity typically used to indicate suitability (See: Credential Engine’s ceterms:Credential).
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Credential Offered
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Information about a credential offered by a credentialing organization or other credential agent.
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Credential Award
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Event data that include an assertion by an agent/issuer that documents a person or organization’s qualification, achievement, personal or organizational quality, experience, attribute, or aspect of an identity as of a certain date or date range.
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Credential Agent
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Organization that plays one or more key roles in the lifecycle of a credential.
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Competencies
The CEDS domain that includes entities and elements that define learner
competencies established in learning standards documents or competency frameworks that may exist
within the
structure of a taxonomy or competency-based pathways.
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Entity
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Description
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Competency Framework
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A resource that includes metadata about a logically related set of Competency Definitions.
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Competency Definition
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A resource that includes a statement that describes a capability or behavior that a person may learn or be able to do within a given situation and environment, and may include definitions of the potential levels of mastery and metadata related to that statement.
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Competency Assertion
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An assertion by an agent/issuer that documents a person or organization’s qualification, achievement, personal or organizational quality, experience, attribute, or aspect of an identity as of a certain date or date range.
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Competency Association
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Competency Association: The relation of competency definitions to other competency definitions to support competency maps or to relate competency definitions to other objects such as learning resources.
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Competency Set
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An entity that supports the definition of a set of competency definitions.
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Learning Resources
Information about materials that support teaching and learning.
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Entity
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Description
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Learning Resource
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The content, materials, or informational resources that support learning.
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Peer Rating
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A person’s rating of a Learning Resource.
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Peer Rating System
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A system by which a person can rate a Learning Resource.
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Facilities
The CEDS domain that includes entities and elements related to a building or buildings located on a single site.
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Entity
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Description
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Campus
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The buildings or buildings located on a site that are under the control of a single entity.
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Facility
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The building or buildings located on a single site.
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Implementation Variables
Information used for implementing data systems and processes, such as variables to track the date
that
a report was produced.
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Entity
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Description
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Report
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An entity with information about a report, such as the date the report was generated or the date
the report was submitted to an authority.
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Authentication and Authorization
Information used by an application or service that authenticates the identity of a person or
authorizes a
person’s access to information or services.
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Entity
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Description
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Authentication
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An application or service that can authenticate the identity of a person. The CEDS entity that
includes information about an authentication provider, the login identifier used to authenticate
a person's identity, and other information related to authentication of a person’s identity.
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Authorization
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Information about a data system or application that an authenticated person may access.
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