Short Text: The CTE Department associated with the course does not match the CTE Department value reported in the section.
NOTE: CTE Department may be referred to as “Program Areas Type” within some student information system (SIS) vendor tools.
Long Text: The CTE Department associated with the course does not match the CTE Department value reported in the section. The warning message indicates a mismatch between the CTE Department value reported in the section and the one being associated with the course. To resolve this warning, update the CTE Department so that all sections of the course are reporting the correct CTE department teaching the course.
How to Fix: This warning displays when WISEdata detects a mismatch of information between a CTE course code and the CTE Department that the course code falls under.
There are numerous CTE Departments, also called Program Area Types, and each Course must fall under one. To find applicable CTE departments for a given school year, refer to the Courses download file for that school year, available on DPI's Courses webpage.
There are thousands of courses. Not all courses are CTE courses. Additionally, some courses have a CTE version and a non-CTE version.
To repair the mismatch that triggered this warning:
- Download the Course list for the school year you need. You can also view the Course list within WISEdata Portal, under the Resources menu.
- Freeze the 1st row, so that as you scroll down the very long list, you can apply the column headers throughout the list.
- Note the following columns:
- Roster Code
- SCED Code
- CTE course (Yes or No):
- CTE Department: Select the CTE Department that the CTE course and licensed CTE teacher are under.
- Data entry personnel should work with their CTE teachers to accurately report CTE Departments. Reporting CTE courses by CTE Department is used in the CTE Participant calculation for Civil Right Compliance reviews.
- Go to the Data tab in Excel.
- Select the cell in the far upper left of the sheet. It is to the left of column A and above row 1.
- In the Data toolbar above the sheet, select Sort.
- In the Sort by field, select CTE Course.
- In the Order field, select Z to A.
- This way, all CTE courses appear at the top of the sheet.
- Find the appropriate CTE courses for which you have this validation warning and note the CTE department listed for each.
- In your SIS, update the CTE department.
Advanced data analysis: Some schools may choose to use the courses download to identify CTE courses that belong to a career pathway. Other schools may choose to mix CTE courses from multiple CTE departments in their career pathways.
- Organization of a career pathway should be done on the Roster Work Plan, Row 2.
- DPI is not able to calculate the exact courses that a school chooses to put in career pathways.
- Thus, schools must reference their Roster Work Plan, Row 2 or career pathway map to select CTE Concentrators and IAC codes. CTE Participant reporting is not cross-referenced with CTE Concentrators.
- These are two separate reports.
Example: District Deb is reviewing CTE courses by CTE Department. Deb notices that Computer Science, Roster code 13248. Reviewing the teacher in the school that teacher’s Computer Science course, District Deb identifies that the course is being taught in Business Department, which is CTE.
However, reviewing the Computer Science course in the Student Information System, District Deb sees that one section of the course is reporting that the Family and Consumer Science Department is teaching one section, and the rest of the sections are taught by Business.
District Deb determines that this is a mistake in data entry and corrects the one section. Family and Consumer Science teachers do not teach Computer Science per the courses download that was reviewed by DPI CTE Team and their academic content standards. Once the section is corrected, District Deb may need to resync the course to properly update data that has already been sent to DPI.
Technical Details:
Business Rule Logic: Throw to all Public schools on the /Section endpoint, if the CTE Department on CourseOffering does not match with entered on Section (Courselevelcharacteristics).
NOTE: If multiple CTE departments are submitted, at least one should match with the Section course level.
EXAMPLE: Course Code 12186 - Mapped to CTE-H and CTE -T and the user sends CTE-B, CTE-A, CTE-F, CTE-M.
For more information, see the CTE Department/Program Area Type data element page
For More information, see the Courses data element page, or view the Course list within WISEdata Portal, within the Resources menu.
For more information, see the CTE Data Resources webpage and click the link to the “CTE and Career Education Data WISE Guide.”