MSP SIG - Meeting 25 - 2025-01-07

Participants

Agenda

1. Presentation of the specification for NWEA Map Growth - EA to present a how mapping decisions were made for that spec, with discussion.

2. Discussion

   1. do MSPs like the YAML technology as a means of sharing mappings?

   2. do MSPs like the MAP Growth mapping provided?

3. Admin Console - progress overview and demo

Notes

Presentation of the specification for NWEA Map Growth
EA Presentation by Julianna Alvord

• Refer to each individual assessment mapping as “bundle”

• Public repository of Earth Mover bundles - A bundle is a set of transformation and and specs

• 2 vendors besides EA are writing bundles and pull requests

• In the process of major refactor to follow governance

• Structure of each bundle is generally the same

• Configuration file - YAML file

• Templates show structure of data (column) to be sent to Ed-Fi

• Output - Earth Mover YAML - Transformation Output JSON file for Ed-Fi ODS/API

• Seeds - captures assessment identifier; capture assessment hierarchy; linking scores to specific subject

• Subject is very important - When you look at a scores, the same score points don’t mean the same for different subjects

• For SC - important to get as much data from assessment as possible

• Each score from each vendor has specific underlying meaning

• SC had documented flowchart of defining assessment, providing consistency and accuracy

• https://edanalytics.slite.page/p/FwwhB84DoYVjY1/Assessment-Data-Governance-in-Ed-Fi describes the data governance decisions

• Bundles were not versioned; now we are refactoring changes to go into next version

• Compatible with Ed-Fi DS v4 and v5

• Q: How many assessments have we written a machine readable mapping for at this point? 34 total

Discussion

Q: Do MSPs like the YAML technology as a means of sharing mappings?

Generally the response was “Yes” - key points in the discussion

• These should also be inclusive of certification aspects and as long as we can agreed on the same specification - that is the most important aspect

• Important that these are open-source and don’t have IP concerns

• Will be helpful as we transition from deprecating data import

Actions:

1. Move best practices into the specifications space -https://edanalytics.slite.page/p/FwwhB84DoYVjY1/Assessment-Data-Governance-in-Ed-Fi

2. Put best practices into on using the technology into our advice to MSPs and others

Admin Console - progress overview and demo

Not covered - postpone to next month’s meeting