SLDS Drives CTE Data Insights

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SLDS Drives CTE Data Insights
Pennsylvania Uses SLDS to Research and Improve CTE Programs and Policies

With many states expanding their Career
and Technical Education (CTE) programs,
states are exploring how to leverage the
infrastructure of their statewide
longitudinal data systems (SLDS) to
collect, integrate, and report CTE data.
The passage of Perkins V provides
additional funding to states, but also
requires the collection and reporting of
additional CTE data.

▪ Student participation, such as, which students participated in CTE
programs and to what extent
▪ Student characteristics, such as demographic data and other attributes
▪ Student success, such as certifications, licensing, and other performance
data
▪ Student identification, which requires a unique student ID and robust
matching capabilities

▪ Many states face the challenge of disparate CTE data, making reporting
and analysis a difficult.
▪ The eScholar Complete Data Warehouse provides the solution to collect
and integrate a broad set of CTE data across numerous domains.
▪ Alignment of the eScholar CDW to the Common Education Data
Standards (CEDS) ensures a common data vocabulary.

▪ A key goal of collecting CTE data is ensuring that the data is linked to
students’ academic courses.
▪ The eScholar Uniq-ID® ensures that linkage. In Pennsylvania, known as
the PASecureID, ensures that all students have a unique identifier.
▪ This unique identifier links data in PIMS across domains, which ties
students' demographic data with their CTE program data.

This is a broad set of data and
Pennsylvania Department of Education
(PDE) is an exemplary agency that
leverages its SLDS to collect, integrate,
and report on its CTE data. By using
the Pennsylvania Information
Management System (PIMS), PDE
creates efficiencies and uses data to
support CTE programming, analysis,
and reporting.

▪ The Future Ready PA Index provides public dashboards to inform
communities on a variety of progress measures.
▪ CTE-related performance measures are captured under the Industry-
Based Learning dashboards, which show key performance measures.
▪ Data is available at different levels of granularity and student groupings.
This data can be compared to state wide averages.

In an analysis of 2016-2017 school year data, PDE found that 99% of CTE students who
successfully completed at least 50% of their CTE program graduated from high school.
Graduation Rate

Pennsylvania CTE Students CTE Certificates Earned Unique Certificate Awardees
63,601 35,000 29%
With the governor’s goal to
create “strongest workforce in
the nation”, CTE programs have
expanded and received increased
funding from the state.
Additionally, during the 2016-2017
school year, PDE found that 29% of
CTE students earned at least one
certification.
During 2016-2017, PDE found that
CTE students completed over
35,000 certificates that school year.

Accurate Data
With the eScholar Uniq-ID and eScholar Complete Data Warehouse, PDE benefits from an
integrated and clean set of data that can provide accurate counts, measures, and analysis. This
helps ensure clean and quality data for all types of reporting, from public-facing dashboards to
federal reporting.
Federal Reporting
PDE relies on eScholar solutions to support reporting for EDFacts, including meeting reporting
requirements for CTE. As of this publication, This includes data on CTE concentrators, graduation rates,
CTE student demographics, and more.
Outcomes and Achievements

▪ Pfeiffer, J., & Klein, S. (2019, November). Harnessing State Longitudinal Data Systems to Assess Career and
Technical Education Outcomes. Retrieved February 1, 2020, from
https://educationnorthwest.org/resources/harnessing-state-longitudinal-data-systems-assess-career-and-
technical-education-outcomes
▪ Brochure: Pennsylvania Career & Technical Education. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://www.education.pa.gov/Documents/K-12/Career and Technical Education/PA CTE 2019 Brochure.pdf
▪ Governor Wolf's Budget Goal: Create 'Strongest Workforce in the Nation'. (2019, February 6). Retrieved from
https://www.governor.pa.gov/newsroom/governor-wolfs-budget-goal-createstrongest-workforce-nation/
▪ Perkins Collaborative Resource Network: State Profile - Pennsylvania. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://cte.ed.gov/profiles/pennsylvania
▪ "Pennsylvania" by Ted Grajeda licensed under Creative Commons. 03042020
R E S O U R C E S

Full Case Study:
PDE CTE Case Study
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Thank you!

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