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SHEEO/NCES Network Conference and IPEDS Workshop. Developing a Teacher Pipeline Data Warehouse. John Milam. May 9, 2007. St. Petersburg, FL. The VITAL system. Virginia Improves Teaching and Learning Teacher Pipeline Application (TPA) Survey System Reporting and Analysis Tools.
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SHEEO/NCES Network Conference and IPEDS Workshop Developing a Teacher Pipeline Data Warehouse John Milam May 9, 2007 St. Petersburg, FL
The VITAL system • Virginia Improves Teaching and Learning • Teacher Pipeline Application (TPA) • Survey System • Reporting and Analysis Tools
TPA overview • The TPA is a core collection mechanism for marking students entry into the Teacher Pipeline • All VA teacher education programs submit unit record data individually • TPA data are the foundation for the Survey System and the reporting and analysis tools that were created.
TPA functionality • Submission of unit record data via • Bulk upload (Excel, Access, or Text templates) or • Use of HTML forms (one record at a time) • Institutional review and validation • Data are then locked for use in • Reports • Surveys • DCT
Survey system overview • The Survey System is key to longitudinal tracking of teachers in the pipeline both during and after their preparation program • Goes beyond the unit record data collection to give contextual information about teacher preparation programs, mentorship, employment, working conditions, and employer satisfaction • Helps teacher preparation programs collect data on School-University Partnerships for required reporting
Survey system functionality • VITAL Surveys • Survey Manager for VA Teacher Preparation Programs • SCHEV Survey Manager
VITAL surveys • Candidate Term Surveys • Teacher Surveys • 1st, 3rd, & 5th Year Surveys • Mentor Program Surveys • Observer/Evaluator Surveys • School-University Partnership Surveys • Link to Survey Status Page
Reporting and analysis • TPA report functionality offers users immediate access to their unit record data • Users can review & validate the data they have entered • Create CSV files to use in Mail Merges • Run standard push button reports, and • Generate custom institution reports
TPA reports • Link to live reports demonstration
Reporting and analysis • The Dataset Cutting Tool (DCT) provides users the ability to access all VITAL data • TPA unit record data • Survey system data • Users select a primary data source • All available VITAL data selected then join to this primary data source • Data available for analysis in SPSS, SAS, Access, Excel and CSV
DCT reporting and analysis • Link to live DCT demonstration
For additional information Project website:http://research.schev.edu/teal2 Contact: John Milam HigherEd.org, Inc. 21 S. Kent St. Winchester, VA 22601 (540) 722-6060 jmilam@highered.org http://highered.org