#  Human Capital Toolkit and Resources 

 



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Access the human capital components of the Toolkit for Effective Data Use and SDP's [Strategic Performance Indicators for Human Capital](/node/1616661#human-capital-SPI).



 

##  Getting Started 

**Identify essential data elements for analyzing student achievement.**

[SDP Data Specification Guide](/sites/g/files/omnuum4446/files/sdp/files/step_1_stata_identify_data_specification_guide.pdf "Step 1 - Stata - SDP Data Specification Guide"): Successful data analysis begins with proper identification of data elements necessary to answer key questions of interest.

**Clean, check, and build variables for your data set.**

[Human Capital Data Cleaning Tasks](/sites/g/files/omnuum4446/files/sdp/files/sdp-toolkit-hc-data-building.pdf "SDP Toolkit - Human Capital - Data Cleaning Task"): Upon collecting essential data elements you must ensure that the data can be reliably used in future analyses.

**Connect relevant data sets from different sources.**

[Human Capital Linking Guide](/sites/g/files/omnuum4446/files/sdp/files/sdp-toolkit-hc-data-linking.pdf "SDP Toolkit - Human Capital - Data Linking Guide"): Now that you've collected data and cleaned your data, you must merge the files together to create an analysis file.

**Analyze your data sets.**

[SDP Code for Analysis](/opensdp "OpenSDP"): The final step in the SDP Toolkit for Effective Data Use is to analyze the data you've identified, cleaned, and connected.

**Adopt best practices to facilitate shared and replicable data analysis.**

[SDP Coding Style Guide](/sites/g/files/omnuum4446/files/sdp/files/sdp-toolkit-coding-style-guide.pdf "SDP Toolkit - SDP Coding Style Guide"): To ensure that statistical code is easily shared across a team and is replicable by future users, SDP and CEPR recommend that you follow best coding, programming, and data management practices.



 

##  Human Capital Indicators 

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs) are measures that reveal policy and management levers that have the potential to improve student outcomes. SPIs are derived from the SDP Diagnostics, rigorous descriptive analyses that SDP performs on a common set of issues using existing data from partnering education agencies. SDP’s goal is that education agencies will adopt these SPIs, thereby creating benchmarking information to understand their success in working toward key outcomes over time.

 

 



 ### The Novice Teacher Placement Pattern

Examines whether lower-performing students are disproportionately placed in classrooms of novice teachers.

[Infographic Summary](/sites/g/files/omnuum4446/files/sdp/files/sdp-spi-placement-infographic.pdf "Strategic Performance Indicators - Novice Teacher Placement - Infographic") | [Memo](/sites/g/files/omnuum4446/files/sdp/files/sdp-spi-placement-memo.pdf "Strategic Performance Indicators - Novice Teacher Placement - Memo")



 

 ### Effective Teacher Retention Rate

Examines how retention rates for novice teachers differ by level of effectiveness.

[Infographic Summary](/sites/g/files/omnuum4446/files/sdp/files/sdp-spi-retention-infographic.pdf "Strategic Performance Indicators - Effective Teacher Retention Rate - Infographic") | [Memo](/sites/g/files/omnuum4446/files/sdp/files/sdp-spi-retention-memo.pdf "Strategic Performance Indicators - Effective Teacher Retention Rate - Memo")



 

  

 

 

 

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