Glossary of terms used on this site

Education Names and Addresses:

Educational Names and Addresses (EdNA) is an online tool that can be used to find the names, addresses, administrators, and related information about the educational entities that the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) serves

Educator Effectiveness:

Pennsylvania-legislated model for evaluating teachers, all professional and temporary professional employees, education specialists, and school administrators/principals, while providing training tools for professional growth that provides support as part of a fair effective evaluation process.

English Language Learner

A student whose dominant language is not English and who is in the process of learning English.

Evaluation Report

The PDE application used in order to upload PIMS to PDE.

The secure web interface utilized by authorized PIMS users that guides and controls data as it moves through the extract, transform and load process.

English as a Second Language (refers to the program) 

A program for students whose dominant language is not English for the purpose of facilitating the student's achievement of English proficiency and the academic standards under § 4.12 (relating to academic standards). Programs under this section shall include appropriate bilingual-bicultural instruction.

Every Student Succeeds Act:

On December 10, 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Developed and passed with strong, bipartisan agreement, ESSA replaces the No Child Left Behind Act and provides significant flexibility around federal education policy by shifting authority back to states and communities. 

Extract, Transform, Load;

The process, as it refers to PIMS, is the usage of database warehousing that extracts data from outside submitted data sets, transforms the data to fit operational needs (file and batch managers), then loads the data into a data warehouse (PIMS) for local, state and Federal use.

the "csv" or "txt" addend to a file that identifies its format