Leaderboards

At the foot of the Monitoring Activity page sit the activity rankings: who is doing the monitoring, and how much. They are the fastest way to see both the people carrying a programme and the people who have stopped.

The two rankings

• Officials Monitoring Activity: the number of monitoring forms submitted per official.
• Project Staff Monitoring Activity: the same for project staff.

Both are described on the page itself as counting forms submitted for the period selected at the top, which is the key to reading them.

A third table, Projects by activity at country level or Districts by activity at project level, ranks places rather than people.

Reading a ranking

Each row is a person with their position and their count. Names are links: clicking one opens that person’s profile, where you can see their individual visits rather than just the total.

The tables are shortened to the top ten, with a footer such as “Top 10 of 16” and a View all link for the rest. Show all columns reveals the other measures that did not fit (teacher visits, pupil assessments), alongside the school visits shown by default.

Reading them fairly

The period is doing a lot of work here

Everything in these tables follows the period selector. Somebody at the bottom of the list this term may have been at the top last term, and somebody absent from the list entirely may simply have joined after the period began.

Before using a ranking in a conversation, check which period you are looking at.

Two more things are worth knowing before treating a low count as underperformance:

• Districts are not equal. A monitor covering a compact urban district can make more visits in a day than one crossing a rural district, without working harder.
• Forms submitted is not the only work. Training, mentoring and follow-up do not appear in these counts.

The rankings are best used to ask a question, not to answer one. A monitor at zero for a whole term is worth a call; a monitor at fourteen instead of twenty rarely is.

Where the same data appears in more detail

For coverage rather than volume, the district’s teacher coverage page answers the complementary question: not how many visits happened, but which teachers were missed.

Next: Country trainings