Subject matter.

Subject matter.

Subject matter.

This element contains address data.

Code that defines the location of the address. Note: A subset of specific valid values for each instance in a data object may be listed in that object.

A facet of Address

The street element is a complex element and breaks the street down into several parts. (Allow for PO Box here)

Address line 1.

Address line 2.

Address line 3.

Name of the complex.

The address number assigned to the building.

Street prefix like NE

The name of the street.

The type of street. For example, Lane, Blvd., Ave., etc.

Street suffix like SW.

Type of apartment, for example, Suite.

Apartment number prefix.

The number of the apartment.

Apartment number suffix.

The city part of the address.

The state or province code. StateTerritory Code only applicable if an Australian Address. Conditional- If Australian Address this is mandatory.

The country code.

The ZIP/postal code.

The location of the address.

A Map Reference in x-y co-ordinates.

Type map reference

X Co-ordinate of reference

Y Co-ordinate of reference

UHF Radio frequency or channel used for contact eg: 477MHz or CH60

This element is used to describe a Community that is associated with the instance of the address.

This is the LocalId of the specific address if it can be provided.

This is the GUID generated by the Provider system. Where it is available to be provided, the globally unique identifier links together separate instances of the Address Common Element which reference the same physical address.

When it can be provided, it can be used by subsribing systems to connect addresses from different personal objects.

A list of Address elements.

In a Change event, this flag can be used to indicate an element has been deleted from the parent list container. At a minimum the key for the list must also be present.

Code that describes the absence/attendance.

Code representing the absence/attendance.

A person's date of birth.

Common element used to supply information for a contact person at a school, LEA, or other institution.

The contact person's position title.

Examples
Superintendent

Role played by this contact in this instance.

Examples
Report Contact
Primary Contact
Alternate Contact

Address of the contact.

List of Email elements.

List of PhoneNumber elements.

A country code.

Demographics information about the student, contact, staff member, etc.

Whether or not the student identifies themselves as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent.

'Sex' is the distinction 'male' and 'female', as reported by the person

The person's date of birth.

Means by which the person's birth date was validated.

The person's place of birth—like village, town, city etc.

The person's state of birth.

The person's country of birth.

A person's country of citizenship.

A person's country of residence.

Date the person first arrived in the country.

The person's citizenship status.

Setting/environment in which the person resides.

Code representing the setting/environment in which the person resides

Type of Religion if any

Religion Code

List of Religious events

Religious Event - Currently Free Text

Date of Religious Event

Belong to Religious Region - Currently Free Text.

Australian Residency Status (Mandatory for Student)

Visa Sub-Class - Can be free text - not necessary to validate

Visa Statistical Code - Can be free text - not necessary to validate

Expiry Date of Visa if one exists

Status of Immunisation Certificate

Used to indicate cultural background.

The person's marital status.

A code representing the highest level of education completed by a person.

Common element used to specify entity identifiers that are read by electronic equipment.

Electronic ID type.

A list of electronic identifiers associated with an entity.

This element represents an e-mail address of one of a number of types and occurs in objects such as StudentPersonal, StaffPersonal, StudentContactPersonal, etc.

This attribute specifies the type of e-mail address.

A list of e-mail addresses associated with an individual or organization.

In a Change event, this flag can be used to indicate an element has been deleted from the parent list container. At a minimum the key for the list must also be present.

Person's proficiency in English.

Date student officially graduated from secondary education.

This element contains a map location. The GridLocation element is utilized within the Address element.

Latitude in decimal degrees.

Latitudes north of the equator are positive, latitudes south of the equator are negative [ISO 6709].

Longitude in decimal degrees.

Longitudes east of the Prime Meridian in Greenwich are positive, longitudes west of the Prime Meridian are negative. The 180th meridian is negative. [ISO 6709]

Common element used to specify the locally-defined number or identifier for a homeroom. It is used in objects such as RoomInfo and StudentSnapshot.

The code representing the specific language that an individual uses to communicate. 

An indication of the function and context in which an individual uses a language to communicate.

Specific dialect of a person's language.

This common metadata element describes the life cycle of the object it represents, based on the IEEE LOM LifeCycle element [LOM].

This is a common element used to define the locally assigned identifier associated with an entity.

Code that specifies what type of name this is. If unsure, use LGL.

First projected graduation year, usually determined when student is accepted into 9th grade (CCYY).

Operational condition of an institution.

List of other codes or strings that crosswalk to or serve as translations of the Code element paired with this common element. If Code changes and OtherCodes are supported, both Code and all associated OtherCode elements must be present.

A state/province code, local code, other code or a text string that crosswalks to or serves as a translation of an associated Code element.

Describes the OtherCode element content as either a state/province code, a local code, other code, or text string.

Previous, alternate or other names or aliases associated with a person.

Name of the person. Note: Type value of LGL may not occur here.

In a Change event, this flag can be used to indicate an element has been deleted from the parent list container. At a minimum the key for the list must also be present.

The name of the person. Note: Type attribute value of LGL must be used here.

Previous, alternate or other names or aliases associated with the person.

Demographic information about the person.

The person’s address(es).

The person’s phone number(s).

The person’s e-mail address(es).

This element represents a phone number and occurs within objects such as StudentPersonal, StaffPersonal, etc.

Code that specifies what type of phone number this is. Note: A subset of valid values may be specified in data objects.

Phone number. Free-form, but typical Australian formats include:

• (###) ####-####
• ####-####
• +##### ### ###

Phone number extension.

Indicates whether or not the phone number is available to the public.

Lists phone numbers associated with an entity.

In a Change event, this flag can be used to indicate an element has been deleted from the parent list container. At a minimum the key for the list must also be present.

Information about the campus or school principal.

The name of the principal.

The principal's title.

The principal’s phone number(s).

The principal’s e-mail address(es).

The current status of the student's program participation.

Currently projected graduation year (CCYY).

Indicates whether or not information should be published in a directory.

Code that defines the relationship of one person to another.

Code representing the relationship.

A list of contact persons associated with a school.

Information on contact persons for this school.

Indicates whether or not this school contact's information should be published in a directory of school information.

URL for a school.

School year for which the information is applicable, expressed as the four-digit year in which the school year ends (e.g., "2009").

A commonly defined container for metadata elements defined within SIF.

A state or province code. Note: When dealing with countries other than Australia, state/province codes/values other than those referenced here can be used.

The identifier for this entity as assigned by the state or province.

Subject matter.

The subject area details

A list of subject areas.

Subject matter.

A common metadata element designed to contain time data, both self-defined and by type.

This element is designed to contain the time period attached to an object. Very long periods (school year, quarter, etc.) and very small periods (second, millisecond, etc.) can be defined. This element provides a scoping description of the time metadata enclosed.

Because the educational environment varies so greatly we are including here a suggested but not prescriptive list of values. Although there may be unique needs for values not covered here—and we may have missed a major one—a best practice would be to utilize the examples here to enhance interoperability.

Examples
Full school year
Mini-term
Long session
Other
Semester
Trimester
Quarter
Spring Vacation
Summer Term
Intercession
Holiday

Examples
2007SY
2006.FallConferences

Examples
Class of '07
Fall 2007 Parent-Teacher Conferences

Examples
2007
Evening of 10/12/06

Year or academic level.

Code representing the year level.

List of year levels.

This object defines the attribute of a group of objects that implicitly or explicitly defines a subset of the group.

Key for aggregate characteristic information.

Describes the supercategory of the characteristic described in the Definition element below.

Examples
Sex
CulturalBackground
YearLevel
IndigenousStatus

Defines the aggregate characteristic information.

Examples
LBOTE
Male

Reference to SIF elements or external authority (e.g., StudentPersonal/PersonInfo/Demographics/Sex).

Examples
Dropout Status

This object is the actual value of the measurement. It is always associated with one statistic and one or more characteristics.

Reference to one or more AggregateCharacteristicInfo objects.

Reference to an AggregateCharacteristicInfo object.

Value of the fact.

This object defines the data that is being aggregated as well as the type of measurement that is being performed.

Key

Name of Aggregate Statistic

Examples
Total Enrollment
Diploma Recipients

Rule for calculating the aggregate statistic

Date for which the statistic is initially valid

Date after which the statistic is no longer valid

Rules for which statistic may not be reported.

Rule for which statistic may not be reported

System providing the data: i.e., SIS, Transportation,

Effective date of the statistic

Discontinue date of the statistic

Location where the activity takes place.

Type of the statistic.

The GUID that uniquely identifies this object.

Name of the test.

The state, local or publisher unique Id for the assessment.

Describes what type of assessment this represents.

This object represents an assessment event. It includes information related to the time of administration, place of administration, and unusual events related to the administration.

The GUID that uniquely identifies an instance of the object.

The RefId of the assessment form used in the assessment administration.

Special conditions or unusual events related to the administration event.

A text description of the special condition.

Examples
Fire drill during test.
Air conditioning broke during the request.
Assessment was given over three days instead of in one sitting.

This is the primary key for the list of special conditions.

In a Change event, this flag can be used to indicate an element has been deleted from the parent list container. At a minimum the key for the list must also be present.

Date and time the test is scheduled to be given.

Date and time testing begins.

Date and time testing ends.

Date and time test is due.

Address of the location where the administration takes place.

Optional reference to a staff person associated with the administration.

Optional reference to a school district associated with the administration.

Optional reference to a school associated with the administration.

Represents the unique set of questions or stimuli given to a set of test takers. A physical correlate of the assessment form is the test booklet given to students during an assessment. However, this object does not contain the questions, it only contains elements that describe the form for use in scoring the questions.

The GUID that uniquely identifies an instance of the object.

The RefId of the assessment related to this form.

Indicates whether this assessment (form) is a standard administration or alternate.

Text description for this particular arrangement of questions, etc.

Reference numbers for the form.

Reference number for the form.

Indicates the level of the form.

Examples
Year 3
Leveling System

The time period in which the form is intended to be administered.

Year levels this assessment is designed to evaluate.

Associated subtests (score types). Each form can provide scores in one or more subtest areas.

A subtest identified by RefId.

This object is designed to allow software systems to provide item detail information such as the stem of the item, the distractors, the stimuli, etc. This initial version of the object does not deal with presentation aspects of the item. Instead it focuses on the item content and characteristics needed to enable interoperability and the usage of item-level information in the improvement of learning and instruction.

This RefId points to the assessment form of which the item is a part.

A value that indicates the response type for the item. Note: the multiple-multiple choice value means that there is a multiple choice question, for which more than one choice is acceptable.

An item number or other identifier for the item. It may be used to indicate the order or grouping of items.

Name or short description of the item.

This object contains information related to curriculum standards statements "standards" or "benchmarks" or the like within the document. Each LearningStandardItemRefId reflects an individual standard statement and may occur at several levels within a hierarchially structured document.

A piece of content to be used by the test taker in responding to the stem. Examples include a reading passage, a video, a diagram, or a picture.

Note: The Stimulus element only is included when a Stem element exists.

The question, task, or statement that prompts a response from the test taker.

This complex element will not be included in the object if @ResponseType is:

• fill-in-the-blank
• short-answer
• essay

Other cases will be added in the future.

A choice number or other identifier for the choice. It may be used to indicate the order or grouping of the choices.

The text of the choice, such as true, 27, or Important economic and social factors.

A numeric value that indicates the amount of credit awarded for choosing the choice.

The maximum item score possible for this item.

The minimum item score possible for this item.

Performance Levels are an ordered set of categories that indicate the achievement level of a person on an assessment.

Defines cut scores for placing students in an appropriate performance level.

The name of the performance level.

Score bounds for the performance level.

The metric or scale used to report the scores.

Lower bound for the performance level.

Upper bound for the performance level.

A wrapper for any external standard that can define or transmit the content of an assessment.

The GUID that uniquely identifies an object instance in a zone.

Contains an arbitary XML element, encoded in UTF-8.

Contains an optional description of the content or a processing hint with regard to its structure (e.g. named standard, file layout or XSD).

This object represents the assignment of a specific assessment to be taken by a student.

The GUID that uniquely identifies an instance of the object.

The student associated with the registration.

The assessment administration associated with the registration.

Date/time assignment is made.

Records student-specific special conditions during the test.

A description of the special condition. Student special conditions are different from special conditions of the test.

A code indicating the type of special condition.

Year level of the student at the time of testing.

The Year or level at which the student is to be tested. This element should be omitted unless the student is being tested out-of-level.

The status of the student at the time of testing. The source of this information is meant to be the assessment system and not the student information system.

Person's gender.

The person's date of birth.

Optional reference to a district associated with the registration.

Optional reference to a school associated with the registration.

Optional reference to a staff person associated with the registration.

A psychological construct measured by the assessment. Operationally, a subtest is a class of scores on an assessment. Some assessments may have only one subtest or type of score but most assessments measure more than one psychological construct. The subtest can be based upon items in a section or items that are empirically related. Subtests can also be composites of other subtests that are combined using a particular algorithm. Examples of subtests of an assessment are math total, reading composite, total test, and English composition.

The GUID that uniquely identifies an instance of the object.

Text name of the subtest.

The metric or scale used to report the scores.

Lowest possible score value.

Highest possible score value.

Container for performance level elements.

Defines cut scores for placing students in appropriate performance levels.

The name of the performance level.

Score bounds for the performance level.

The metric or scale used to report the scores.

Lower bound for the performance level.

Upper bound for the performance level.

Content area covered by the score.

Year levels for which the score is valid.

References (possibly recursive) to other SIF AssessmentSubTests. This enables subtests or scores to be composites of other scores. If any references are given here, the score is a composite score. The list must be unique.

A reference to an AssessmentSubTest by RefId.

An integer that defines the level or tier of the score in a multi-level arrangement of composite scores. Zero indicates the highest or root level.

References to LearningStandardItems. The list must be unique.

A reference to a LearningStandardItem by RefId.

This is the short version of the name of the assessment that is often used for quick reference and used in reports.

The description element provides an opportunity to pass additional information about the assessment and also be used for describing elements in a test hierarchy.

This element records the number of items included on the assessment. This number may be different than the possible score.

Indicator describing the purpose of an AssessmentSubTest as being that of a container for the child AssessmentSubTests. There will be no scores within this subtest.

This object defines information related to a school calendar day in a given school calendar year. If both CalendarDate and CalendarSummary objects are supported, there must be an instance of this object for each date between CalendarSummary StartDate and EndDate, inclusive.

A specific school day that occurs within the school year.

The ID (GUID) of the calendar summary in which this calendar date is.

The ID (GUID) of the school for which this calendar information is being reported.

School year for which the information is applicable, expressed as the four-digit year in which the school year ends (e.g., "2009").

Calendar date type information.

Code indicating the type of school day.

Order in which the calendar date falls within the school calendar.

Information describing how the day relates to student attendance.

Designates whether this date should be counted toward student attendance.

Amount of the school day in which the student should be in attendance (Format is x.x; a student who should be in attendance a full day would be represented as 1.0). If CountsTowardAttendance equals Yes then AttendanceValue must be greater than zero.

Information describing how the day relates to teacher attendance.

Designates whether this date should be counted toward teacher attendance.

Amount of the school day in which the teacher should be in attendance (format is x.x; a teacher who should be in attendance a full day would be represented as 1.0).

Information describing how the day relates to administrator attendance.

Designates whether this date should be counted toward administrator attendance.

Amount of the school day in which the administrator should be in attendance (format is x.x; an administrator who should be in attendance a full day would be represented as 1.0).

This object provides a summary of a school's calendar information for a given school year. A school may have more than one calendar per school year (e.g., one calendar for Kindergarten students, one for special education students, one for seniors, or one for each calendar track), and each may have different days in session, start and end dates, minutes per day, instructional minutes, etc.

The ID (GUID) of the calendar to which this information relates.

The ID (GUID) of the school for which this calendar information is being reported.

School year for which the information is applicable, expressed as the four-digit year in which the school year ends (e.g., "2007").

The locally assigned identifier for this calendar.

Textual description of the school calendar.

The total number of days that the school was or is anticipated to be in session during the school year. Also included are days on which the education institution facility is closed and the student body as a whole is engaged in planned activities off-campus under the guidance and direction of staff members.

The first calendar date, whether or not instruction was provided. If both CalendarSummary and CalendarDate objects are supported, StartDate must be the date of the first chronological instance of CalendarDate for the school's calendar.

The last calendar date, whether or not instruction was provided. If both CalendarSummary and CalendarDate objects are supported, EndDate must be the last chronological instance of CalendarDate for the school's calendar.

The first day of student instruction.

The last day of student instruction (including days or times that students are present for purposes of testing and/or evaluation, but not including whole or part-days whose sole purposes is for distribution of report cards).

Date of graduation ceremony.

The total number of instructional minutes for this calendar for the school year.

The number of minutes in the day in which the school is normally in session.

Collection of year levels applicable to this school calendar.

This object allows a system that stores network identities and/or passwords to share them with other applications through SIF. The provider of the Identity object may only support providing an identity or a password, or it may support both.

The SIF RefId that uniquely identifies this object.

The SIF RefId of a StudentPersonal, StaffPersonal, or StudentContactPersonal object.

The type of SIF object that the SIF_RefId attribute identifies.

The type of source system that produced this Identity object.

See implementation notes for provider requirements.

The list of identity assertions for this user.

The identification string for this user.

The name of the field.

See implementation notes for details on required schema elements.

Examples
eduPersonPrincipalName
sAmAccountName

Allows a provider or publisher to specify the same password using multiple algorithms, if supported.

A representation of the user's password using the given algorithm.

The method used to encrypt the user's password. See the implementation details below.

The name of the key to be used for decryption of the password. Left blank for hash algorithms (MD5 and SHA1).

The globally unique person identifier that links together separate Identity objects which reference the same Person.

This object contains information about a school district or other Local Educational Agency (LEA).

The GUID of the LEA whose information this is.

The locally-assigned identifier for this LEA.

The state-assigned identifier for this LEA.

Commonwealth Identifier for this District (LEA).

Name of LEA.

URL for the LEA.

The classification of the education agency within the geographic boundaries of a state according to the level of administrative and operational control.

Code indicating the operational/administrative level.

Information on contact persons for this LEA.

Indicates whether or not this LEA contact's information should be published in a directory of LEA information.

The LEA's phone number(s).

The LEA's address(es).

Operational condition of a school.

Lower House area that the school/campus belongs to.

Statistical Local Area that the school/campus belongs to.

This object contains information related to learning resources that may be used in educational settings. These include textbooks, Internet content, educational software, videos and DVDs, supplemental print material, etc.

GUID assigned to this LearningResource.

The default language used in the LearningResource object.

Name of learning resource.

Name of organization or company that created the resource.

Contains contact information about resource authors.

Contains contact information about a resource author.

Name of contact person. Use the generic element Name.

Address of organization or company.

Phone number of organization or company.

The email of the organization or company.

Description of location of resource, i.e. location in library or URL, community resource, outside resource supplier.

A qualifying attribute for the Location payload. If ReferenceType is "URI", the payload contains a web address where the resource can be found.

Describes availability status of resource, e.g. "checked out."

Description of the resource, e.g., "This textbook is intended for year 4 social studies students and addresses..."

Resource media types.

MIME type [MIME] based on IANA registration (see RFC2048) or 'non-digital'.

Describes terms of use for resource.

A date that defines the date of agreement.

Authorizations to use this resource. For example, this resource may be included as part of the district's standard curriculum model.

A sub-element containing an authorization to use this resource. For example, this resource may be included as part of the district's standard curriculum model.

Name of agency that approved use of resource.

Date resource was approved.

Evaluations/review of the resource.

Evaluation/review of resource.

GUID assigned to an evaluation.

Description of evaluation of resource.

Date evaluation was performed

Name of individual who submitted evaluation.

Lesson or activity-sized portions of a resource.

A lesson or activity-sized portion of a resource.

Name of learning resource component within the resource, i.e. "Chapter 1, Section 4.

Description of where ResourceComponent is located within resource or in general, i.e. "Section 4, pages 32-38," or URL string, or whatever locator is appropriate for media.

Description of ResourceComponent, i.e. "Discover how changing the scale of a map can either increase or decrease the level of detail you see."

Teaching/learning strategies used in the learning resource.

Teaching/learning strategy used in the learning resource. One per element.

References from component to associated elements within another SIF object.

Reference from component to associated elements within another SIF object.

Attribute that identifies the type of SIF object being referenced.

References to LearningStandardItems.

Reference to a LearningStandardItem.

Reference to a LearningResourcePackage, a transport envelope for teaching and learning object files.

A curriculum standards document or the like published by a national, state, district, school site, professional association or other interested party. The LearningStandardDocument reflects an expectation of student work.

Id for the standards document

The default language of the text used for the content in the learning standard document.

Name of curriculum document, i.e., "NSW History Curriculum K-10."

Description of the standards document.

Description of the curriculum document that allows pictures as well as text..

Defines source of standard document. This is the descriptive type of the organization listed in Organization. It serves to describe the type of the standards contained within the document.