Ed-Fi Data Standard

by Ed-Fi Alliance

The Ed-Fi Data Standard builds a secure bridge between disparate data systems, empowering state agencies, districts and educators with up-to-date, actionable insights so they can better understand the individual needs of every student in their classroom. The Ed-Fi Data Standard serves as the foundation for enabling interoperability among secure data systems and contains a Unifying Data Model designed to capture the meaning and inherent structure in the most important information in the K-12 education enterprise.

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Assessment

Open License No
Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

Current Ed-Fi Technology licensees include only US school districts, but include everything in the K-12 range
Stakeholder Participation No

Clients (school districts) are not expected to participate in creating the standard
Consensus-Based Governance No

Standard and documentation is maintained on GitHub and is claimed to be open-source but contribution appears to be insular
Extensions No
Human Readable Yes

Element names are logical and readable
Machine Readable Yes

XML schema
Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No

Depends on the dataset (Student Attendance Interchange versus Education Organization Interchange)
Metadata No