Introduction

The Data Analytics and Visualization Work Group (AWGAVWG) is an established entity within the Ed-Fi Governance structure and is intended to enhance the community’s engagement in best practices and explore options to visualize and analyze in evaluating the Alliance investment in analytics and visualization initiatives to support improved educational outcomes with Ed-Fi data in a meaningful and impactful way.

The DVWG’s AVWG’s main purpose is to evaluate the current role value of the Ed-Fi Dashboards in data visualization bring to the community and explore the future of this offering alongside options to best present the  way for the Ed-Fi Alliance to contribute meaningful tools for the community to support adoption of the Ed-Fi Data Standard supports educational outcomes. This work group represents the perspectives of SEAs, LEAs, vendors and thought leaders to the Ed-Fi Governance processes with the purpose of making the Ed-Fi data and technology standards more widely adopted and used.  The AWG AVWG may make recommendations through the Ed-Fi Governance processes about investment in the Ed-Fi product roadmap and business strategies. 

The organizing charter for this work group can be found at Assessment Work Group Charterat Analytics and Visualization Organizational Charter.

Subgroups

The Assessment Analytics and Visualization Work Group currently has 3 2 smaller subgroups, each which meets regularly to provide input and direction on community work, and to propose technical or other changes necessary to meeting the overall workgroup mission as defined in the charter. 

• Use Case subgroup.  Discusses and develops use cases and proposes target areas to be addressed by the community and via the technical artifacts.API Awareness and Adoption subgroup. Discusses how to drive adoption and scale for assessment exchange efforts, and proposes and leads programmatic community activity to support such adoption.
• Technical subgroup. Provides input on the technical specifications and other artifacts (such as standards and certification requirements) necessary for seamless exchange of K12 assessment data. roadmap for the Ed-Fi Dashboards, codebase maintenance plan along with a proposed budget for all technical activities necessary to execute on the proposed Ed-Fi Dashboard proposed roadmap.

Meeting activities of the subgroups are published under /wiki/spaces/GOV/pages/20317114 Analytics and Visualization Work Group Meetings and are indicated as a subgroup meeting.

Membership

Any education organization, vendor, assessment organization, thought partner or standards body (e.g. CEDS or IMS Global) that is in good standing with the Ed-Fi Alliance may have representative members on the AWGAVWG.  Members are responsible for:

1.      Identifying the primary contact for the organization

2.      Providing input and feedback on abstracts that are presented for review

3.      Registering and participating in the Ed-Fi polling process

4.      Participating in information sharing on practices and issue resolution

5.      Providing input and feedback on Ed-Fi data and technology standards

If you are interested in learning more about the AWG AVWG and perhaps becoming a member, please express your interest by email to Governance@Ed-Fi.org 

Membership in the AWG AVWG is ongoing unless the individual requests to be removed from the membership roster or has not participated in any AWG AVWG related activity or conference calls.

Resources

Meeting notes are published under the /wiki/spaces/GOV/pages/20317114 Analytics and Visualization Work Group Meetings sections.

Collaborative documents are managed in an AWG TBD Google Docs folder(members should request access as needed).