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Principal indicators

 Indicator Definition Status Timeline for completion Comments
Admissions rate % of applicants admitted Developing Fall 2017
Rigor relevance, quality of faculty and staff, peer interactions, performance-based assessments % of graduates who agree or strongly agree Developing Spring 2017 Each of these items is a separate indicator, according to UCEA.
Graduation rate % of starters who complete and are recommended for licensure Completed Winter 2016
Licensure rate % who become licensed Developing Spring 2016 PESB is gathering data from other states that have undertaken a performance assessment for leaders, per Board request in March 2016.
Placement rate % of graduates who become assistant principal (AP)/principal within three years of graduation in state Completed Winter 2016
Retention rate % of cumulative graduates retained as AP/Principal for 3+ years in state Completed Winter 2016
School climate % of graduates who improve school climate after two years of leadership Developing Fall 2017 PESB hopes to partner with the Title II office of OSPI; that office already collects this data.
PEAB TBD Planning Fall 2017 PESB plans to build upon partnership surveys from other NTEP states to develop an instrument.
Partnerships TBD Planning Fall 2017 PESB plans to build upon partnership surveys from other NTEP states to develop an instrument.
Candidate/completer diversity

A comparison of the number and percentage of program completers in the most recent graduating cohorts – disaggregated by race/ethnicity, linguistic diversity, gender, and SES – with the number and percentage of candidates originally admitted in those same cohorts; and

The extent to which the population of principal candidates in an EPP reflects the diversity of the larger student population on the same campus.

The program completion rate is the ratio of

(a) the number of individuals who complete a principal preparation program or who pass state licensure examinations in a given year to
(b) the number of individuals who were admitted to the program originally.

 Developing Spring 2016 Board tasked staff with identifying ways to collect data regarding all aspects of the Technical Advisory Committee’s (TAC) definition at the May 2016 Board meeting. Board added this indicator for Principal programs during the May 2016 Board meeting.