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State unveils interactive educator preparation report card and teacher‑shortage dashboard
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Summary
The Alabama State Department of Education demonstrated a new dynamic report‑card dashboard for educator preparation providers (EPPs), showing accreditation, admissions/completions, attrition reasons, Praxis/reading pass rates and a teacher‑shortage module; staff cautioned on caveats and small‑N suppression.
State education staff showed board members a new interactive report‑card dashboard for educator preparation providers that aims to make program performance and shortage data easier to review.
Presenters said the dashboard, developed in collaboration with PowerSchool, replaces static binder reports with a filterable, dynamic interface that displays accreditation status, enrollment/admit/completion counts, reasons for attrition, certification classes, first/second/third+ attempt pass rates on assessments (Praxis, foundations of reading, edTPA), employer and first/second‑year teacher survey results, and a teacher‑shortage breakdown by field and district.
"All 24 of our EPPs in Alabama are fully accredited," presenters said, and showed state‑level aggregates as well as the ability to filter by institution, certification class and demographic groups. Presenters stressed caveats: small sample sizes are suppressed (double asterisks when n<6), some EPPs did not collect certain data in prior years, and pass‑rate tables exclude those who never matriculated to certification.
The dashboard displays state‑level first‑attempt pass rates (an example figure cited: roughly 61% first attempt for Praxis and about 56% first‑attempt for the new foundations‑of‑reading assessment), and includes a new teacher‑shortage module that uses district self‑reported data to show shortage areas by field and by district. Presenters noted that the teacher‑shortage module uses self‑reported district data aligned with federal reporting filters.
Staff recommended continued refinement, noted the platform can incorporate future statutory or reporting requirements and said the EPP report card will be populated annually as institutions submit data. The transcript records demonstration and discussion but no formal adoption vote.
