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News & Updates

"The NEDM project has been very helpful in the ongoing expansion of the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse. By leveraging the work of the NEDM in finding commonality among education data attributes across disparate systems and organizations, we are able to more quickly deliver broadly applicable enhancements."
-Shawn Bay
 Founder/CEO, eScholar LLC

“What I’ve found helpful about working with NEDM is that it provides us with a starting point for our work to expand our data system. In New Jersey, we have multiple, fragmented data collections that grew over the years as independent entities. Our challenge is to build out our SLDS to incorporate what we’ve been collecting but also focus on what we may not have been collecting. NEDM is a fabulous tool to help us establish our priorities for which data elements and collections should be incorporated first and also to provide the more global guidance of what the data values and formats should be for each new data element.”
-Bari Anhalt Erlichson PhD
 Director Office of Research and Evaluation, New Jersey Department of Education

How to Browse the Data Model

In order to access the Data Model Browser, click on the Data Model Browser link in the Tools and More Information box on the Home Page of this website. The Data Model Browser web pages display the Education Data Model content.

The sections below explain the functions of the Data Model Browser.

Menu

The vertical list on the left of the screen allows for quick navigation up and down the class branches and to easily move from one branch to another. Every clickable item in the list opens up a sub-list (a lower level branch). Each list item represents a class or a subclass until the lowest level item, representing the entity is reached at the end of a branch (called the leaf node).

The picture below show an Entity selected in the menu.


Entity Menu Screen Shot

This picture shows a Class selected in the menu. Notice that the display on the right of the screen in the picture below is different for a Class as compared to the display for an Entity.

Class Menu Screen Shot


Name Search

On the right side of the web page banner is a box labeled “Search.” Type a term into the box and press the Go button. Any classes, or entities whose name contains the term is returned in a list of classes and a list of entities. Click on one of the items in the list and you will go to the page for that class or entity.


Search Text Box Screen Shot



Advanced Search

Click on the Advanced Search selection of the Data Model Browser Menu to get the screen below. Select the fields you want to search by checking one or more check boxes. A list of classes and/or entities will be returned. Click on one of the items in the list and you will go to the page for that class or entity.


Search Text Box Screen Shot



Table of Contents

Near the center of the banner menu is a choice called “Table of Contents.” Clicking this link will generate a full listing of all classes, subclasses, and entities. It is like the tree-type navigation bar will all branches opened. Click on one of the items in the list and you will go to the page for the class or entity.


Table of Contents Screen Shot