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"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

Concept Map

The Concept Map describes the structure of the Education Data Model. It represents a logical and finite set of relationships among classes, subclasses, and entities, striving to depict the entire domain of education information. It adds to the taxonomy multiple simultaneous relations among the entities. These relationships are meaningful with respect to education processes and mostly mutually exclusive.

The figure below illustrates the taxonomy of entities presented previously, that has been turned inward to feature the relationships among the entities.

Concept Map