NCES Forum Guide to Strategies for Education Data Collection and Reporting (SEDCAR)

This guide provides timely and useful best practices for education agencies that are interested in designing and implementing a strategy for data collection and reporting, focusing on these as key elements of the larger data process. It is designed to be relevant to state and local education agencies of today, in which data are collected regularly for multiple purposes, and data collection and recording may be conducted by many different individuals within an agency: teachers, administrators, analysts, or even students themselves.