Station utilization provides a measure of the percentage of seats (stations) that are being used in a room.
Station utilization is done for instructional space types only. Instructional space types are classrooms, lecture halls, labs and physical education spaces.
Station utilization takes the total number of hours students occupy instructional stations and compares it to the weekly student contact hour goal for that instruction type. It is a measure of direct instruction and/or individual student effort. Direct instruction takes place in classrooms, lecture halls, class laboratories, and physical education activity stations. Individual student effort occurs in music practice rooms, audio-visual rooms, auto-tutorial study lab (individual) wet/dry laboratories, and individual project labs.
Station utilization does not take into account the amount of space an instructional station requires or the amount of space needed to support the instructional station.
The measurement of station utilization for classrooms, lecture halls and class labs at the individual room level is based on Course and Section Analysis (CASA) reporting of "weekly student contract hours" using specifically identified PSI rooms. Practice labs, individual wet labs, individual dry labs and physical education are not reported by CASA at the room level, but rather at the "space required" code level. This results in the utilization of the latter space types only at the campus level.
Station utilization is useful for determining how well the campus is using the stations that are provided by existing instructional space types such as classrooms and labs.
Station utilization is useful in evaluating the need for new buildings, rehabs, and conversions on a campus as well as local space management decisions.
Station utilization is determined by calculating the WSCOH (as reported by CASA) as a percent of the room's WSCOH goal. The WSCOH goal is the number of instruction stations x's standard WSCOH goal for the space type.
Goals are as follows:
| 1001 Classroom | 28.32 hours per week per station |
| 1100 Lecture Hall | 28.32 hours per week per station |
| 1300 Class Lab | 22.66 hours per week per station |
| 1302 Individual Practice Labs | 35.00 hours per week per station |
| 1304 Individual Study Labs Dry | 35.00 hours per week per station |
| 1301 Individual Study Labs Wet | 35.00 hours per week per station |
Primary factors that impact station utilization are:
1. Number of stations - accurate designation of a room's space type and number of stations. If necessary, the space proration for the room.
2. CASA's reporting of WSCOH into PSI rooms. Every attempt should be made to properly identify PSI rooms in CASA and use of default of campus location should be minimized. Unidentified space WSCOH are lost relative to room station utilization.
3. Appropriate use of inactive PSI status codes - A (alteration) N (inactive) U (unusable) which remove stations from station utilization goal calculation.
For a campus which does not participate in CASA (e.g. community colleges) local analysis can be developed. WSCOH is weekly student contact hours which is calculated as follows:
Step 1 For each section scheduled in the room, the number of students is multiplied by the scheduled hours per week.
Step 2 Sum of all sections scheduled in the room.
WSCOH goal is the adjusted number of stations (reported stations times prorate percent then times prorate percent space) multiplied by the respective space type goal for all active space (PSI status =C) assigned to I+DR. (department function 00)
Station Utilization Report Development
Record Selection
Classrooms Utilization Reports
| Select PSI records with space type 1001 | |
| Status C - current active | |
| I&DR (department function 00) | |
| Reported as department 400000 (instruction General) | |
| * Classrooms and lecture halls are assumed to be available for campus wide scheduling and utilization. |
Lecture Centers Utilization Reports
| Select PSI records with space type 1100 | |
| Status C - current active | |
| I&DR (department function 00) | |
| * Classrooms and lecture halls are assumed to be available for campus wide scheduling and utilization. |
Laboratories Utilization Reports
| Select PSI records with space type 1300 | |
| Status C - current active | |
| I&DR (department function 00) |
Report contents:
| BLDG ABBRV | PSI building abbreviation |
| SPACE NO. | PSI space (room) number |
| SPACE NAME | PSI space (room) description |
| CHART ACCT | PSI department (chart of account) assigned to the space |
| NO ST | PSI number of stations |
| ADJUSTED STATION | PSI number of stations adjusted by PSI percent time and percent space proration |
| ADJ RMHRS | CASA schedule room hours |
| ADJ WSCH | CASA weekly student contact hours |
| WSCOH GOAL | Adjusted stations multiplied by the WSCH per station goal
for the respective space type:
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| PCT OCCUP WHEN SCHED | Calculated as follows: |
| Average Class Size / Adjusted Stations | |
| AVG CLASS SIZE | Average class size is calculated as follows: |
| Adjusted WSCH / Adjusted Room Hours | |
| STATION UTIL | Station utilization is calculated as follows: |
| Adjust WSCH / WSCOH Goal | |
| GRAPHIC REPRESENTATIVE | Represents station utilization |
| Station Utilization Report Summary: PDF Format, HTML Format |
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| P080D259 - B: PDF Format, HTML Format | Rank order percent utilization of classroom |
| P080D259 - C: PDF Format, HTML Format | Rank order percent utilization of classroom by building |
| P080D259 - F: PDF Format, HTML Format | Rank order percent utilization of lecture centers |
| P080D259 - G: PDF Format, HTML Format | Rank order percent utilization of lecture centers by building |
| P080D259 - J: PDF Format, HTML Format | Rank order percent utilization of laboratories |
| P080D259 - K: PDF Format, HTML Format | Rank order percent utilization of laboratories by department |
| P080D259 - A: PDF Format, HTML Format | Classrooms, lecture centers and laboratories by building/room without graphic representation of station utilization |
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