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HOW TO USE THE TSDS TEXAS EDUCATION DATA
STANDARDS AND CHANGE LOG
Summer 2016
Bryce Templeton, ITS SEDS
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Texas Student Data System Texas Education Data Standards.
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All TSDS data can be categorized under one of 7 data
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Group 1 – Organization Data
Group 2 – Finance Data
Group 3 – Staff Data
Group 4 – Student Data
Group 5 – Course Section Data
Group 6 – Assessment Data (Not used for PEIMS)
Group 7 – Cohort Data (Not used for PEIMS)
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Texas Student Data System Texas Education Data Standards.
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It is important to commit the group
numbers to memory because these
numbers will reoccur throughout TEDS in
many of the data requirements
identification numbers such as complex
numbers and validation rules numbers.
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Texas Student Data System Texas Education Data Standards.
TSDS Complex 10010 =
LocalEducationAgencyExtension;
 1= Organization data
 010 = Local Education Agency Extension
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20030 - Budget - BudgetExtension
 20032 - Actual - ActualExtension
 20033 - Shared Services Arrangement Actual –
SharedServiceArrangementExtension
 Recognize the red numbers from the PEIMS
Legacy system?
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30040 - Staff Basic Information - StaffExtension
30050 - Employment Payroll Summary StaffEducationOrgEmploymentAssociationExtension
30055 - Contracted Instructional Staff ContractedInstructionalStaffFTEExtension
30060 - Payroll - PayrollExtension
30090 - Responsibility - StaffResponsibilitiesExtension
30305 - Teacher Class Assignment StaffEducationOrgAssignmentAssociationExtension
30310 - Staff Association - StaffProgramAssociation
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Complex 40203 = Student Leaver
Complex;
 4 = Student Group and
 203 = Student Leaver Complex
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Complex 50300 = Course Section –
SectionExtension
 5 = Course Section and
 300 = Course Section Extension
Complex
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The TEDS consists of two versions
for each school year.
 The whole version covers all data
things TSDS. (PEIMS, Dashboards,
ECDS, Other Collections)
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Texas Student Data System Texas Education Data Standards
The Section 8.X documents cover
only the PEIMS reporting aspects of
the TSDS system.
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 Section 8.3.1 identifies only the
organization data elements related to
the PEIMS submissions 1 – 4.
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Within sections 2 – Data
Submission Requirements and 3 –
Data Elements, information is
grouped together by using the data
groups (1-5) listed in slide 2.
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Within section 2, the Complex
numbers are included in the table
of contents and at the beginning of
each new complex throughout the
document.
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Sections 4 – Code Tables and 8.4 PEIMS Code
Tables are not organized by data groups. All code
tables for all data groups are presented together.
TSDS Dashboard only code tables are formatted as
DCXXX.
PEIMS code tables are formatted as CXXX and
PEIMS does not use DCXXX code tables.
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Sections 5 – Validations and 8.5 PEIMS Validations
are not organized by data groups.
Validation rules are organized similar to the Legacy
PEIMS Data Standards. The validations for data
fields appear first. The validations for context
business rules appear second.
F = Fatal
S = Special Warning
W = Warning
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Section 8.6 includes the XML XSD schemas for just
the PEIMS data collections.
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 Section 8.7 includes the Interchange Schemas for
just the PEIMS data collections.
 PEIMS utilizes 14 different Interchanges across the 4
PEIMS collections.
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Appendices
Appendix A – PEIMS data overview and descriptions
under each group.
PEIMS Data Overview
 Education Organization Data (Group 1)
 Finance Data (Group 2)
 Staff Data (Group 3)
 Student Data (Group 4)
 Campus Course Section Data (Group 5)
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Appendices
Appendix 8B – Data Elements & Associated
Complex Types (sorted by data element name).
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Appendix 8C – Data Elements & Associated
Complex Types (Sorted by data element number).
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Appendix 8D – PEIMS Leaver Reason Codes &
Documentation Requirements.
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Appendix 8E – PEIMS Additional Information
Related to Discipline.
Additional Information regarding Disciplinary Alternative Education Program
(DAEP) Conferences, Expulsion Hearings, Placement Reviews, and Other Actions
Part 1 – Questions and Answers
Part 2 - ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELATED TO DISCIPLINE ACTION REASON CODES
Part 3 – PEIMS Chart for determining mandatory and Discretionary DAEP Placements
and Expulsions.
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Appendices
Appendix 8F – PEIMS Supplemental Information
for Ethnicity and Race Data Reporting.
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Appendix 8G – Personal Enrollment Tracking (PET) Guidelines
TSDS Unique ID Version.
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Appendix 8H – PEIMS Organization Code Reporting
Guidelines.
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Appendix 8J – Early Notice of PEIMS Reporting Changes for
the 2017-2018 School Year.
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Appendices
Appendix 8P – PEIMS Data Submission Guide.
DELETED
All previous Appendix P content has been re-incorporated
into the relevant group components of Sections 2 and 8.2.
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Change Log
The TEDS Change Log for a particular school year is
cumulative with each additional release of a version of
TEDS for a given school year.
The change log associated with each release of TEDS will
illustrate whether a change is associated with the
Preliminary, Final, Addendum, or Post Addendum version.
The change log table of contents is clickable to jump to
the particular section of interest.
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