PSES student — professional capacity
The student score for the 'Professional Capacity' topic of the Philly School Experience Survey — the average of the topic's subtopic scores, on the survey's 0–100 scale.
Measured in percent; higher is better. Derived by this site from published columns (see the computation node).
Identifiers
key survey_student_professional_capacity · unit PERCENT · direction HIGHER_BETTER
- 1How it was computedvalue = mean of the subtopic scores within (school, year, topic, respondent)
- Unzip the survey archive and read the school-level subtopic-scores workbook.
- Keep rows for this respondent type; roll subtopics up to the topic by averaging their scores.
- 'n.a.' and 'i.s.' are stored as suppressed.
Algorithms applied downstream: Survey topic scores per respondent type
- 2The load that wrote it0 data loads wrote this metric
Loaded Source file Years Cells Suppressed File hash Commit The hash identifies the exact file version read; the commit identifies the exact code. Both are recorded at load time.
- 3The publisher's file0 publisher files
Evidence: source registry (sources.yaml)
- 4How it was checkedChecks: 1 passed
- ✓ passedComputed-value check: our rollup reproduces the district's published values
Evidence: Computed-value check
- 5Assumptions & caveatsAssumptions and caveats
Assumptions
- A topic score is the unweighted mean of its subtopics (the district publishes topic scores aggregated across respondents; per-respondent topic scores are our rollup).
Caveats
- Year coverage varies by topic and respondent — some topics were not asked every year.
Coverage by year, sector, and subgroup
Cells served, with how many are suppressed (withheld by the publisher for small groups).
| Year | Sector | Group | Cells | Suppressed |
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To see the tree for one school’s number, click any dotted-underlined figure on a school, Outliers, or Movers page.