Questions relevant at the District or Sub-district level

Tagged questions for the district, block or cluster level are tailored to the needs of local administrators responsible for managing a specific geographical area. These questions address issues related to district-level planning, resource allocation, and the implementation of policies. The focus is on tailoring strategies to meet the unique challenges and characteristics of individual districts or sub-districts.

Access and Retention

• In UDISE, which data points are critical for ensuring the participation of students?

• What does the data say about the quality of entitlements?

• Which data will tell me that the uniforms and textbooks are reaching government schools in time?

• Which data sets can tell me which groups of students are attending school less and by how much?

• Which data sets can tell me reasons for certain groups (for example, CWD, EWS, Girls) not attending school?

• What does GER/NER not tell me about access and retention?

• What can I learn about my state from seeing both the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) and Net Enrolment Ratio (NER) together?

• What can I learn about my state from trends in the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER)?

• What can I learn about my state from trends in the Net Enrolment Ratio (NER)?

• From existing datasets, how do I know the reasons for high dropout rates or low retention and transition rates of specific groups of children?

• How can I use my data to request support from other departments? Eg: power department, water department etc.

• How can I use dropout data to set a priority order of schools that should be upgraded to a higher level?

• What useful information can I learn from PTR data?

• What useful information can I learn from student enrolment trends?

• Why do we calculate GER/NER? What are the appropriate targets for this figure?

Equity

• How is collecting information on students from EWS families useful? How can I use it at district/block/cluster level?

• How is collecting information on a student’s gender useful? How can I use it at the district/block/cluster level?

• How is collecting information on students from migrant families useful? How can I use it at the district block/cluster level?

• How is collecting information on students’ social categories useful? How can I use it at the district/block/cluster level?

• How is collecting information on students with disabilities useful? How can I use it at the district/block/cluster level?

• How can I learn about the educational status of students belonging to SC/ST/OBC groups?

• Why should I look at data for different social categories when making plans?

Planning and Monitoring

• How can I create a District Report Card based on key performance indicators?

• What do I do that DEOs and DIETs start making better use of data?

• Is there any point in presenting the school data to the school management committee (SMC)? Will they be able to understand it? If I want them to, what should I do?

• How to create a priority list of schools that need infrastructural support, using UDISE?

• Are SMC records relevant? Are they also data?

• What steps do we have to take to ensure the data related to our block or district is reliable?

• How can I use data from schools in my district to develop the SDP?

Quality

• What data is required to better understand the state of teacher capability, and then how can that data be used to improve the same?

• Does dropout/transition data have implications for vocational training for my state/district?

• How do I check which programmes are the most effective in improving learning outcomes in my state/district?

• How can I evaluate the quality of teacher training programmes?

• How can teacher education programmes be improved, using data on school education?

• Can I look at a few blocks in my district rather than all of them to find areas of focus in education? How do I select which blocks to look at?

• How many years of SLAS/NAS data should I look at, to find areas of focus?

• How can I use data to improve the vocational education facilities available in schools? What data can I collect in this regard?

• How can I use student learning outcome data to inform my supervision?