Workforce Success Relies on Transparent Postsecondary Data: A Federal Student-Level Data Network Would Enable Students to Make Informed Education and Career Decisions

Autor/in	Peña, Christina
Institution	National Skills Coalition, Workforce Data Quality Campaign (WDQC)
Titel	Workforce Success Relies on Transparent Postsecondary Data: A Federal Student-Level Data Network Would Enable Students to Make Informed Education and Career Decisions
Quelle	(2018), (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Employment Qualifications; Job Skills; Program Effectiveness; Postsecondary Education; Employment Level; Wages; Outcomes of Education; Data Collection; Data Use; Federal Government; State Government; College Students; Access to Information; Information Security; Privacy; Educational Legislation; Parent Rights; Student Records; Student Financial Aid; Federal Legislation; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Produktive Fertigkeit; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Beschäftigungsgrad; Wage; Löhne; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Data capture; Datensammlung; Bundesregierung; Bund-Länder-Beziehung; Collegestudent; Privatsphäre; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Elternrecht; Schülerakte; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Bundesrecht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	Employers are demanding higher skilled and better educated workers. Yet employer sentiment and the high default rate on student loans suggests a mismatch between the programs students are completing and the work they are able to find. To report on trends in postsecondary education, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) mostly relies on surveys of postsecondary institutions for its Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The information does not include employment and earnings outcomes. ED also oversees the production of the College Scorecard, which incorporates annual earnings data gathered from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, but these data are limited to federally aided students, and ED does not report the results for individual programs of study or majors, only for institutions as a whole. Many states have longitudinal data systems that connect postsecondary data with state quarterly Unemployment Insurance (UI) wage data for research and accountability. However, state UI wage records do not include military personnel, those who go out of state to work, work for the federal government, or are self-employed. Moreover, the majority of states lack any quality consumer reports that show median wages of postsecondary degrees by program. If the federal government had a student-level data network (SLDN), then it could account for the outcomes of almost all postsecondary students. An SLDN would allow ED's statistical agency, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), to securely match several essential data points on postsecondary students to produce aggregated information on postsecondary and workforce outcomes, as well as information disaggregated for key demographic groups. Education is the most important investment both for a person's future, and the nation's economy. Americans need the information to make the decisions that they see as right for themselves, and an SLDN would go a long way in helping them to make those decisions. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Workforce Data Quality Campaign. Available from: National Skills Coalition. 1250 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 202-223-8991; e-mail: info@nationalskillscoalition.org; Web site: https://www.nationalskillscoalition.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01