Notice2024-22490
Request for Information for Recommendations on Improving Data User Experiences Through a National Center for Education Statistics' 2025 Data Users Conference
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October 1, 2024
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The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center within the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), is soliciting public input on the framework for an inaugural Data Users Conference. The event will bring together a diverse set of NCES data users, including researchers, practitioners, parents/guardians, students, academic and commercial leaders in their fields, and policymakers. Their input will be used to refine NCES's approach to meeting the needs of its data users.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 190 (Tuesday, October 1, 2024)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22490]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED-2024-IES-0116]
Request for Information for Recommendations on Improving Data
User Experiences Through a National Center for Education Statistics'
2025 Data Users Conference
AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, Department of Education.
ACTION: Request for information.
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SUMMARY: The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the
statistical center within the U.S. Department of Education's Institute
of Education Sciences (IES), is soliciting public input on the
framework for an inaugural Data Users Conference. The event will bring
together a diverse set of NCES data users, including researchers,
practitioners, parents/guardians, students, academic and commercial
leaders in their fields, and policymakers. Their input will be used to
refine NCES's approach to meeting the needs of its data users.
DATES: We must receive your comments by October 31, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Recommendations must be submitted via the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at <a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>. However, if you require an
accommodation or cannot otherwise submit your recommendations via
<a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>, please contact the program contact person listed under
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. The Department will not accept
recommendations by email or by fax. To ensure that the Department does
not receive duplicate copies, please submit your recommendations only
once. Additionally, please include the Docket ID at the top of your
comments.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> to submit
your recommendations electronically. Information on using
Regulations.gov, including instructions for accessing agency documents,
submitting comments, and viewing the docket, is available on the site
under the ``FAQ'' tab.
Privacy Note: The Department's policy for comments received from
members of the public is to make these submissions available for public
viewing in their entirety on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
<a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>. Therefore, commenters should be careful to include
in their recommendations only information that they wish to make
publicly available. We encourage, but do not require, that each
respondent include their name, title, institution or affiliation, and
the name, title, mailing and email addresses, and telephone number of a
contact person for the institution or affiliation, if any.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eunice Greer, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room PCP-4101, Washington, DC 20202.
Telephone: (202) 320-7356. Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ebae9e8582888ec5ac998e8e99ab8e8fc58c849d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0540706b6c66602b42776060774560612b626a73">[email protected]</span></a>.
As stated above, recommendations must be submitted via the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at <a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>. However, if you require an
accommodation or cannot otherwise submit your recommendations via
<a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>, please contact the program contact person listed
above.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and
wish to access telecommunications relay services, please dial 7-1-1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: NCES has a legal mandate to collect, collate, analyze,
and report complete statistics on the condition of American education;
conduct and publish reports; and review and report on education
activities internationally. 20 U.S.C. 9541 et seq. Additionally, the
Center is authorized to establish one or more national cooperative
education statistics systems to produce and maintain, with the
cooperation of the States, comparable and uniform information and data
on early childhood education, elementary and secondary education,
postsecondary education, adult education, and libraries that are useful
for policymaking at the Federal, State, and local levels. 20 U.S.C.
9547. Additional information about NCES is available here: <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/">https://nces.ed.gov/</a>.
NCES is convening data users in response to recommendations from
the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)
detailed in their 2022 report, A Vision and Roadmap for Education
Statistics. This report was prepared at the request of NCES. NASEM
recommends that NCES:
--Adapt to the changing world of education by increasing diversity and
awareness of equity issues;
--Expand data-acquisition strategies to gain new insights;
--Prioritize topics, data content, and statistical information to
increase relevance; and
--Expand engagement and dissemination for greater mission impact.
The Data Users Conference will draw heavily on NCES data and invite
presentations from external experts working with broader sources of
data. Facilitated discussions will explore opportunities for expanding
NCES data collection, application, and reporting. The Conference's
centerpiece will be a three-day series of seminars that will focus on
three themes:
(1) Identifying and closing learning and achievement gaps;
(2) Identifying and explaining ways that Pre-K, K-12, and
postsecondary landscapes are changing; and
(3) Expanding awareness and use of socio-spatial data, data for
rural areas, and blended data to improve understanding of
underrepresented groups.
External experts will join NCES researchers in a series of
presentations to address each theme in new and powerful ways. Within
each theme,
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participants will work together to articulate expanded strategies for
gathering, analyzing, visualizing, and reporting data. In addition to
providing a venue for data users to share novel uses of NCES data, NCES
will also use the conference to share product and process updates.
These may include updates to NCES data tools, reporting programs, and
training opportunities.
Please note that this RFI is only a request for recommendations and
not a request for proposals (RFP), or a promise to issue an RFP, or a
notice inviting applications (NIA). This RFI does not commit the
Department to take any future administrative, contractual, regulatory,
or other action. A Request for Proposals is forthcoming. The Department
will not pay for any information or administrative costs that you may
incur in responding to this RFI. Any supporting documents and
information submitted in response to this RFI will not be returned.
We will review each recommendation, and the information submitted
in response to this RFI will be publicly available on the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>. Please note that IES will
not directly respond to comments.
Solicitation of Recommendations: We encourage the public,
particularly those who are aware of key research questions and policy
activity in one or more of the three theme areas, to address the
following questions in their recommendations:
(1) What are existing or emerging issues for data users that you
consider critical for each of the three conference themes? Please
provide citations and links to any noteworthy research publications and
products that support these existing or emerging issues.
(2) How can conference organizers best identify and convene a broad
and diverse array of attendees? Recommended methods should promote
inclusive approaches. Our goal is to convene organizations and/or
individuals who are engaged in work related to one or more of the
conference themes, including early career researchers, data users from
smaller institutions, and non-traditional data users.
(3) What NCES-affiliated products and processes are of greatest
interest to data users? Are there any specific updates or modifications
that would be helpful to data users?
Accessible Format: By request to the program contact person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, individuals with disabilities
can obtain this document in an accessible format. The Department will
provide the requestor with an accessible format that may include Rich
Text Format (RTF) or text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 file,
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format.
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Matthew Soldner,
Acting Director, Institute of Education Sciences.
[FR Doc. 2024-22490 Filed 9-30-24; 8:45 am]
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