Synopsis
This Working Draft presents an exploration of a possible future data standard change reflecting an alternative model for sections. Because this would be a significant breaking change, this Working Draft is to gather early comments and feedback for the approach.
Note: There is currently no plan to incorporate this change into a future release.
- General Discussion
The current Ed-FI model (v4 data model) for organizing instruction is centered about a student’s attempt at a course is via a tightly bound Section-CourseOffering, as shown below:
Current Section Entity Model
New models for organizing instruction in schools have identified shortcomings with the current model, as follows:- Section may be associated with multiple Course Offerings and students (and staff) be associated only with a subset.
- Need to capture responsible teacher for students in a multi-course section.
- Students (and staff) may leave and come back into a course without having to create a new section association or change sections.
- Students may take a course (online, remote facility) without having a Section assigned for it
- Online instruction may occur in combination with a classroom portion.
- Programs are being defined to a myriad of non-instructional or complementary instructional requirements for graduation.
- Section may be associated with multiple Programs and students may not participate in all Programs.