Questions relevant at the State level

Questions tagged for the state level focus on overarching policies, resource allocation, and strategic planning for education at a broader administrative scale. State-level administrators would use this information to make informed decisions regarding statewide initiatives, funding distribution, and the development of comprehensive educational policies.

Access and Retention

• Is there additional data required on school infrastructure? How can I assess this? And what can I do about it?

• 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?

• What all teacher related data do I require in order to ensure teacher availability and quality?

• 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 can I find out the requirements of ST children in my state?

• 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 do I check if plans reflect actual needs of people? Is that possible?

• 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?

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

• How do I make a priority order of schools within my state for funding?

• Are SMC records relevant? Are they also data?

• As there are subject-wise resource persons in the state, how should we use the data to arrive at what each subject needs to do and what needs to be done commonly by all?

• How can I use PAB data to show that my state should be provided more funds?

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

• How can I utilize School Development Plans for developing the State Annual Work Plan and Budget (AWPB)?

Quality

• Are academic results/learning outcomes useful to create academic plans? What is doable at block/cluster level?

• 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 I find out which vocational training opportunities are required in my state?

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

• How can I learn about the impact of vocational training on school education in my state?

• 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?