Jennifer Sable

Jennifer Sable specializes in the management, editing, and dissemination of administrative records data. For over 24 years, she served as project director and assisted the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) with survey operations, data management, and quality improvement for the three annual Common Core of Data (CCD) nonfiscal data collections (the State Nonfiscal Survey, the Local Education Agency Universe Survey, and the Public School Universe Survey), the four CCD fiscal data collections (the School District Finance Survey, the National Public Education Finance Survey, the School Level Finance Survey, and the School Pension Survey), and the EDFacts data system. 

She has also served as a content expert on the collection of administrative records data for AIR’s work with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights Civil Rights Data Collection, developing data quality assurance procedures for administrative records data collected from over 17,000 local education agencies and advising on improvements for data collection methods, and as a task lead for AIR’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Data Analytics Management Support (ODMAS) and Data Analysis and Quality Assurance Support (DAQAS) contracts with U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. 

In her work on the ODMAS and DAQAS contracts, Sable manages tasks related to the quality assurance, reporting, and dissemination of administrative records data (EDFacts). This work includes creating review protocols for the Consolidated State Performance Report and EDFacts data related to multiple provisions in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act/Every Student Succeeds Act, advising on the application of privacy protection algorithms to EDFacts data, developing process documents for various aspects of review and dissemination of EDFacts data, and contributing to data dissemination and data quality assurance of Title II-A data. Sable has also served as task lead for the National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments Gun Free Schools Act Compliance Monitoring.

In addition to her work in the fields of education-related administrative records data, Sable has also served as the task leader for the data collection and data file and documentation tasks for AIR’s work with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) State Library Administrative Agency Survey, developing and managing help-desk operations, post-edit processing procedures and protocols, and data imputation and cleaning procedures, and she currently serves as a technical expert for IMLS’s Public Library Survey. Her other work at AIR has included providing analytical support for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, various post-secondary surveys (such as the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and the National Postsecondary Study of Student Aid), and the National Household Education Survey. 

Prior to joining AIR in 2000, she was lead research analyst at Pinkerton Computer Consultants, contributing to several annual reports for NCES, including The Condition of Education (1998, 1999, and 2000).