Dashboard Metrics
Teacher Experience
Background
Campus Dashboard Metrics
Teachers play a huge role in the success of students. Districts and campuses must ensure that all campuses, including those that may be low-performing/high-need, have seasoned teachers. Additionally, in focus group discussions conducted with over 2,600 educators throughout Texas, the Teacher Experience metric was considered useful by 92% of respondents.
Primary Metric
- Teacher Experience: percentage of teachers with more than five years of professional teaching experience.
User Interface
Dashboard Example
Figure 1 shows the Teacher Experience list as seen on the operational dashboard.
Figure 1 TSDS Teacher Experience
Figure 2 shows the Teacher Experience metric as seen on the staff dashboard.
Figure 2 TSDS Teacher Experience
Status Definition
The Status indicator is determined by campus-specific thresholds (campus goals) which are set at the district level. The TSDS default threshold = 60%.
Metric Indicator | Comparisons | |||
Metric Name | Sub-metric Name | Metric Status Indicator | Trend | Campus Goal (Delta) |
Teacher Experience | All Subjects | Red (Percentage) = percent of teachers with >5 years experience is less than campus goal Green (Percentage) = percent of teachers with >5 years experience is equal to or greater than campus goal | Current year to prior year | N/A |
ELA/Reading | Red (Percentage) = percent of teachers with >5 years experience is less than campus goal Green (Percentage) = percent of teachers with >5 years experience is equal to or greater than campus goal | Current year to prior year | N/A | |
Mathematics | Red (Percentage) = percent of teachers with >5 years experience is less than campus goal Green (Percentage) = percent of teachers with >5 years experience is equal to or greater than campus goal | Current year to prior year | N/A | |
Science | Red (Percentage) = percent of teachers with >5 years experience is less than campus goal Green (Percentage) = percent of teachers with >5 years experience is equal to or greater than campus goal | Current year to prior year | N/A | |
Social Studies | Red (Percentage) = percent of teachers with >5 years experience is less than campus goal Green (Percentage) = percent of teachers with >5 years experience is equal to or greater than campus goal | Current year to prior year | N/A | |
Trend Definition
Trend Indicators: Objective is to indicate Teacher Experience | |||
| Up green | If the value for the current time frame is more than 5 percentage points higher than the prior time frame, then display a gray arrow trending upward. | |
| Unchanged | If the value for the current time frame is less than or equal to 5 percentage points higher or less than or equal to 5 percentage points lower than the prior time frame, then display two gray arrows pointing outward indicating no direction. | |
| Down red | If the value for the current time frame is more than 5 percentage points lower than the prior time frame, then display a gray arrow trending downward. | |
The trend does not show for the first occurrence of a time frame since data is not available.
Periodicity
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.
- 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
Business Rules
The Teacher Experience metric displays the percentage of teachers with professional experience more than 5 years. The type of certifications that a teacher has is not considered, only the number of years teaching.
A teacher teaching two core courses with more than five years experience is counted for both subjects.
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 Experience | All Subjects | Total number of teachers at campus with more than 5 years of teaching experience / Total number of teachers at campus currently teaching a course |
ELA/Reading | Total number of teachers at campus with more than 5 years of teaching experience and currently teaching ELA/Reading / Total number of teachers at campus currently teaching ELA/Reading | |
Mathematics | Total number of teachers at campus with more than 5 years of teaching experience and currently teaching mathematics / Total number of teachers at campus currently teaching mathematics | |
Science | Total number of teachers at campus with more than 5 years of teaching experience and currently teaching science / Total number of teachers at campus currently teaching science | |
Social Studies | Total number of teachers at campus with more than 5 years of teaching experience and currently teaching social studies / Total number of teachers at campus currently teaching social studies | |
Data Anomalies
Data Anomalies:
- Teacher experience updates at the end of the year. A teacher in her first year will appear as "0" until the following year begins, and reflects what is in the HR system.
- The date of refresh for teacher metrics differ slightly by campus. This is due to the last date of hire for each campus being different.
- If a campus does not have teachers in a subject area, the denominator for this metric may appear different than in other subject areas.
- Teachers are designated as such in the teacher metrics and teacher list only if they have a section assigned to them.
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 Experience
This metric displays the number of teachers at a campus who have more than 5 years of experience teaching. The teacher's years of professional experience may not be in the same subject area that the teacher is currently teaching.
Drill Downs
Drill Down Views
The dashboards include the option to drill down and see more detail that is associated with a metric. Table 6 lists the drill down views that are defined for this metric.
| Teacher List | List of teachers who do not meet the threshold for this metric for the specified period. | |
| Historical | Graph of metric values across years. |
User Interface
Dashboard Example
Figure 2 shows the historical chart for the Teacher Experience metric as seen on the campus staff dashboard.
Figure 2 Teacher Experience Historical Chart