Student Attendance Domain - Overview
- Eric Jansson
Owned by Eric Jansson
Aug 09, 2022
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Key Entities
This domain contains:
- An AttendanceEvent entities which connect Student entities to Section, School, Program, and Intervention entities. The AttendanceEvent can model attendance, tardies, and absences for a particular class or school day.
- A SectionAttendanceTakenEvent, which models information about the taking of attendance, primarily the date on which attendance was captured.
Key Concepts
The key concepts include the following:
- Attendance in the Ed-Fi data model can be affirmative, meaning that both attendance and absence are recorded, or can be “exception only” reporting, providing attendance events only for absences and tardies.
- Attendance in the Ed-Fi data model is event-based, so every instance of being absent or tardy is recorded and tied to a specific date. There is no built-in aggregate value, as Ed-Fi generally avoids aggregations where business rules start to apply.
- The SectionAttendanceEventTaken entity is strictly for recording that attendance was taken on a specific day for a specific section (optionally) by a specific staff member. It doesn’t affect individual student attendance values within the Ed-Fi data model, but can be useful when analyzing trends in attendance over the course of a year.
- Ed-Fi Unifying Data Model Handbook (v4.0)
- Ed-Fi Unifying Data Model UML Diagrams (Visio format, on GitHub)