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--- ftpt_fte_teacher_uis_notes [2021/07/21 07:30] – [Other considerations: In service training] ghachey
+++ ftpt_fte_teacher_uis_notes [2021/08/17 02:57] (current) – [Missing grade data] ghachey
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 Teacher numbers are reported disaggregated by Gender, ISCED Level, and Public/Private. Sheets A9 and A10 both present numbers for Full-and-Part-Time (FTPT), and Full-Time-Equivalent (FTE).
-We collect data now of each class level taught by a teacher, as well as teachers performing Admin or 'Other' activities. A teacher may teach across multiple grades. Sometimes these grades will be in a single ISCED group, but a teacher may teach in grade levels that belong to different ISCED Levels. We can identify this from the collected survey data.
+We collect data now of each class level (i.e. Grade 1, Grade 2, etc.) taught by a teacher, as well as teachers performing 'Admin' or 'Other' activities. A teacher may teach across multiple grades. Sometimes these grades will be in a single ISCED group, but a teacher may teach in grade levels that belong to different ISCED Levels. We can identify this from the collected survey data.
 ===== Full-Part-Time (FTPT) =====
-The principle for the allocation of Full-Part-Time (FTPT) is that a teacher is counted in an ISCED Level if they teach any grade in that ISCED Level. If they teach across multiple levels, they are counted as 1 teacher in each of their ISCED Levels. Effectively, we are counting such a teacher as a "part-time" teacher in each of their ISCED Levels.
+The principle for the allocation of Full-Part-Time (FTPT) is that a teacher time is pro rated in all ISCED Levels they teach. If they teach across multiple levels, their contribution should be a total of 1 across all ISCED Levels. This is true whether a teacher is full time or part time.
-Since a teacher may be counted in more than one ISCED category, the total teachers across all ISCED categories may well exceed the total number of teachers. However, this abstract total is not presented anywhere on the UIS Survey.
 ===== Full-time Equivalent (FTE) =====
-The principle for allocation of Full-time Equivalent (FTE) is based on the weighting of the teacher's time across all their activities. The totals of these weights for a single teacher add to 1. The weight is equally divided across all class activities ( and 'Admin' and 'Other').
+The principle for allocation of Full-time Equivalent (FTE) is based on the weighting of the teacher's time across all their activities. The totals of these weights for a single teacher add to 1 for a full time teacher and less than 1 for a part time teacher. The weight is equally divided across all class activities **and** 'Admin' and 'Other' (which is discarded in FTPT above).
-This means that the sum of all weighted activities will equal the total number of teachers since each teacher contributes 1 to this total.
-However, since the UIS survey only considers teaching activities, the FTEs reported in that analysis will be less than the total number of teachers by the amount of teacher time spent on Admin and Other activities. This difference will include those teachers whose entire time is spent in Admin and Other activities (i.e. the weight of the Admin and Other activities is 1) as well as the weighting of 'Admin' and 'Other' for teachers who do mixed duties (e.g. Grade 1 and Admin.)
+This means that the sum of all weighted activities would equal the total number of teachers since each teacher contributes 1 to this total. However, since the UIS survey only considers **//teaching activities//**, the FTEs reported in that analysis will be less than the total number of teachers by the amount of teacher time spent on Admin and Other activities. This difference will include those teachers whose entire time is spent in Admin and Other activities (i.e. the weight of the Admin and Other activities is 1) as well as the weighting of 'Admin' and 'Other' for teachers who do mixed duties (e.g. Grade 1 and Admin.)
 Examples:
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   * tID=1351 A single activity - Admin.	This teacher does not contribute to the UIS Survey.
   * tID=1350 2 Activities - Grade 7 and Grade 8. These are both ISCED 24. This teacher contributes 1 FTPT to ISCED 24, and 1 FTE to ISCED 24. (i.e. all this teacher's time is spent in ISCED 24)
-  * tID=2533 2 Activities - Grade 6 and Grade 7. Grade 6 is ISCED 1 , Grade 7 is ISCED 24. This teacher contributes 1 FTPT to ISCED 1, 1 Full-Time Part-Time to ISCED 24, .5 FTE to ISCED1, .5 FTE to ISCED 24.
+  * tID=2533 2 Activities - Grade 6 and Grade 7. Grade 6 is ISCED 1 , Grade 7 is ISCED 24. This teacher contributes 0.5 FTPT to ISCED 1, 0.5 FTPT to ISCED 24, 0.5 FTE to ISCED1, 0.5 FTE to ISCED 24.
-  * tID=4009 2 activities Grade 8 and X. This teacher contributes 1 FTPT to ISCED 24, but .5 FTE to ISCED 24.
+  * tID=4009 2 activities Grade 8 and X. This teacher contributes 1 FTPT to ISCED 24, but only 0.5 FTE to ISCED 24.
   * tID=1278 3 activities Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12. All are in ISCED 34. FTPT: ISCED 34=1 FTE ISCED34 = 1
-  * tID=4772 3 activities Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8. FTPT: ISCED 1=1 ISCED 24=1 . FTE: ISCED 1 = .3333 ISCED 24=.66666. The FTE reflects the fact that the teacher teaches 2 classes in ISCED 24, but only 1 in ISCED 1.
+  * tID=4772 3 activities Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8. FTPT: ISCED 1=0.33 ISCED 24=0.66 . FTE: ISCED 1 = .3333 ISCED 24=.66666. Both the FTPT and FTE reflects the fact that the teacher teaches 2 classes in ISCED 24, but only 1 in ISCED 1.
-  * tID=2563 3 activities: Grade 6, Grade 7, X. FTPT: ISCED 1 = 1, ISCED 24 = 1. FTE: ISCED 1 = .3333 ISCED 24 = .33333 This teacher spends 2/3 of their time teaching, they contribute .6666 FTE in total.
+  * tID=2563 3 activities: Grade 6, Grade 7, X. FTPT: ISCED 1 = 0.33, ISCED 24 = 0.66. FTE: ISCED 1 = .3333 ISCED 24 = .33333. This teacher spends 2/3 of their time teaching, they contribute .6666 FTE in total. In FTPT this teacher is considered a part-time teacher with a total contribution of 1.
 ===== Missing grade data =====
-We introduced the concept of 'Unspecified' teacher to deal with those situations where the survey records a teacher as teaching, but no grade level data is supplied. warehouse.TeacherLocation records these in field T=1, and provides a "best guess" ISCED SubClass in this case, which can be used in the UIS Reporting. Specifically, these teachers with T=1 record FTPT=1 and FTE=1 for the ISCEDSubClass recorded on warehouse.TeacherLocation.
+We introduced the concept of 'Unspecified' teacher to deal with those situations where the survey records a teacher as teaching, but no grade level data is supplied. warehouse.TeacherLocation records these in field T=1, and provides a "best guess" ISCED SubClass in this case, which can be used in the UIS Reporting. Specifically, these teachers with T=1 record FTPT=1 and FTE=1 for the ISCEDSubClass recorded on warehouse.TeacherLocation. Their contribution to all ISCED levels is equally distributed.
 Example: tID=861 : T=1 to FTPT=1, FTE=1 for ISCEDSubclass ISCED 24.