DOL Credential Attainment Rate PM

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Background

The Participant Individualized Record Layout (PIRL) report captures activities and performance within the Workforce (WorkSource) system.  It is the tool, which states use to communicate such activities and outcomes to the Department of Labor (DOL) Employment and Training Administration (DOLETA or ETA for short).   

The Department of Labor describes why it is so important to report performance:

  • “The public workforce development system provides resources, services, and tools to support individuals and businesses in developing and maintaining a workforce to support a thriving economy throughout the nation. Given the critical importance of this system, its performance at the local, state, and federal levels is vitally important. Consistent, accurate performance reporting allows the workforce system to assess its effectiveness, make data-informed improvements, be accountable to taxpayers, and, ultimately, support vibrant communities, businesses, and families throughout the nation.”

Purpose and DOL Definition

The purpose of the DOL Credential Attainment (CA) Performance Measure is to measure success (attaining a recognized post-secondary credential or a secondary school diploma or equivalent), for specific training programs.

This DOL Credential Attainment (CA) Performance Measure is defined by DOL as:

  • “The percentage of those participants enrolled in an education or training program (excluding those in on-the-job training (OJT) and customized training) who attain a recognized postsecondary credential or a secondary school diploma, or its recognized equivalent, during participation in or within one year after exit from the program. A participant who has attained a secondary school diploma or its recognized equivalent is included in the percentage of participants who have attained a secondary school diploma or its recognized equivalent only if the participant also is employed or is enrolled in an education or training program leading to a recognized postsecondary credential within one year after exit from the program.” 

All WorkSouce DOL accountable programs will get credit for a Credential Attainment (CA), regardless of which program captures the CA.  However, the job seeker must be in an appropriate training or education service, and the CA must take place either in the participation episode or within a year of exit, to be counted in the measure.

Accountable DOL WorkSource Programs

The following DOL WorkSource Programs are held accountable, for the DOL Credential Attainment (CA) Performance Measure:

  • Title Ib Adult (AD)

  • Title Ib Dislocated Worker (DW) (Including the Rapid Response (RR) Program)

  • Title Ib Youth (Y)

  • National Dislocated Worker Grants (NDWG)

  • Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)

Notes: 

For this dashboard, on all of its reports, we have allowed the ability to select data, for any of the programs accountable for ESD, on the PIRL, because there is data for all of those programs, in our dashboard.  Even though not all of the programs, on the PIRL, are being held accountable for the DOL Credential Attainment Rate, by DOL, there is data that is being input into ETO, that causes the job seekers to be in the DOL Credential Attainment Rate cohort, so we allowed you to see the data, in case program staff would like to review it.

See DOL PIRL PM supporting documentation, for DOL’s official guidance/laws, regarding information/statutory laws, for all of the DOL Performance Measures, which are deciphered, defined, and maintained by DOL, and of which WA State is held accountable by DOL, on the PIRL.

  • Important Note:  The DI Team does NOT define nor create any of the definitions/calculations for the new DOL QRAs (QRA Calculations), or any of the DOL Performance Measures (QPR Calculations), on the PIRL, or any other Federal report or performance measure calculations (Like the UNTEER employment rate) you may have access to.  DOL deciphers, defines, and maintains the “what” the “why” and the “how” for those definitions/calculations, at the Federal level, within their DOL official guidance/laws, for all of the 50 states and the territories.  DOL provides the 50 states and the territories with pseudo code, in order to replicate the definitions, numbers, and percentages.  The DI Team only provides visuals, for you.  As to why those numbers and percentages sometimes seem to be in conflict with each other (They all use the same data set, the PIRL), will also be defined, within DOL’s official guidance/laws, of which the DI Team always provides, with our dashboards.

Dashboard

Dashboard Supporting Documentation