Dashboard Metrics
Teacher Education
Background
District Dashboard Metrics
The education of teachers is an important part of their training. Ensuring that all teachers have at least a bachelor's degree is an important part of any staffing decisions.
Primary Metric
- Teacher Education: percentage of teachers holding better than a bachelor's degree.
User Interface
Dashboard Example
Figure 1 shows the Teacher Education list as seen on the operational dashboard.
Figure 1 TSDS Teacher Education
Figure 2 shows the Teacher Education metric as seen on the staff dashboard.
Figure 2 TSDS Teacher Education
Status Definition
The Status indicator is determined by district-specific thresholds (district goals) which are set at the district level. The TSDS default threshold is 90% for Bachelor's degree and 30% for Masters Degree.
Metric Indicator | Comparisons | |||
Metric Name | Sub-metric Name | Metric Indicator | Trend | Campus Attainment |
Teacher Education | Bachelor's Masters or Doctorate | Red (Percentage) = teachers with education level less than district goal Green (Percentage = teachers with education level equal to or greater than district goal | Current and prior year | The number of campuses meeting their campus goal over the number of campuses with data for the metric |
Trends
The dashboards do not currently support trends for this metric. The UI supports the trends, but the ETL packages have not been developed.
Trend Definition
The objective of Trends is to increase the number of teachers with advanced degrees.
Table 3 lists the trend indicators for the Teacher Education metric.
Trend Indicators for Teacher Education | |||
| Up green | Percentage is higher compared to previous time frame; upward trend is favorable | |
| Unchanged | + 5 percentage points | |
| Down red | Percentage is lower compared to previous time frame; flag indicates unfavorable trend | |
Delta Definition
The Delta column appears only in the campus list and is the absolute value of the difference between the campus education percentage and the campus goal. If the attendance percentage is below the campus goal, the delta percentage is displayed in red. If the attendance percentage is equal to or above the campus goal, the delta percentage is displayed in black.
Periodicity
Best practice is to load the data for this metric each semester.
Recommended Load Characteristics | |
Calendar | Throughout the school year |
Frequency of data load | Yearly, Semester (to account for teacher turnover) |
Latency | Year |
Interchange schema | Interchange-StaffAssociation.xsd |
Tooltips
The standard tool tips for the metric definition, column headers, and help functions display for this metric.
The following are tooltips specific to the Teacher Education metric:
- Green metric status: OK
- Red metric status: LOW
- 'More' indicates drill down views for this metric
is ‘No change from the prior period'
is ‘Getting worse from the prior period’
is 'Getting better from the prior period'
Business Rules
The Teacher Education metric displays the percentage of teachers with advanced education. This includes bachelors and masters or doctorate degrees.
Data Assumptions
- Data is available in district source systems.
Computed Values
Table 5 defines how values are calculated for each sub-metric. The result of the calculation displays in the Status column on the staff dashboard.
Metric Values | ||
Teacher Education | Bachelor | Total number of teachers in the district with bachelor's degree (including teachers with masters and doctorate) / Total number of teachers currently teaching in the district |
Masters or Doctorate | Total number of teachers in the district with masters and/or doctorate degree / Total number of teachers currently teaching in the district | |
Data Anomalies
Data Anomalies
Metric values are dependent upon the data available in the district's human resources system. Teachers completing advanced degrees during the year may not be reflected in the metric until the HR system is updated.
Date of Refresh
Best practice is for the date of last data refresh to appear next the metric in the following format:
- (Through April 2010)
Implementation Considerations
Teacher Education
This metric was created to help ensure that all teachers have at minimum a bachelors degree and should be an important part of any staffing decisions.
This metric displays the percentage of teachers holding master's or doctorate degree.
Drill Downs
Drill Down Views
The dashboards include the option to drill down and see more detail that is associated with a metric. Table 5 lists the drill down views that are defined for this metric.
| Campus List | List of campuses and whether or not they meet their goal for this metric for the specified period. |