Central Southern Tier RAEN July 17, 2012

 Goal Setting Targets are removed from Report Card and Program Evaluation Reports 10 points

 Intake process will be a critical element in determining a student’s demographic data and subsequently the student’s goals  ◦ Employment status ◦ Employed ◦ Unemployed and Available Not in the Labor Force **

 Completed for every student  Form is added to student’s folder  Programs may add more fields or more information to the back side of the ISRF

 Information from ISRF is entered into ASISTS  Goals will be set automatically in ASISTS  ◦ ◦ Data Check Reports will identify students with employment goals Obtain a Job Retain Employment

 ◦ Students who are Unemployed and Available for Work Goal : Obtain a Job  ◦ Students who are Employed at time of entry Goal : Retain Employment  ◦ Students who are Not In the Labor Force Goal : NO Employment Goals

 ◦ In 2008 Not in Labor Force = 17%  ◦ In 2011 Not in Labor Force = 40%  Programs that increase more than 10% from FY11/12 to FY12/13 will be identified

 Students who are enrolled in GED® preparation classes (will be coded accordingly)  Goal : Obtain the GED®

 Programs too small to afford separate level classrooms

Class Meets at Same Time Same Students Same Teacher

Code as ABE Code as GED Two Rosters

 Programs will need to code a class specifically to enroll ESL students who are preparing to take the Spanish GED®

Class Meets at Same Time Same Students Same Teacher

Code as ESL Code as GED Two Rosters

 Students who take and pass the current GED®  Goal : Enter Postsecondary Education or Training

 Students who are enrolled in college transition classes or “bridge” classes  Goal : Enter Postsecondary Education or Training

 ◦ ◦ ◦ Students who have: Earned a secondary credential while enrolled Hold a secondary credential at entry (US or foreign) Enrolled in a class specifically designed for transitioning to community college  Goal : Enter Postsecondary Education or Training

 Students with a secondary credential from a foreign country (e.g., an ESL student)  Goal: Must be included in the tracking cohort for entrance into postsecondary education or training  Q: Is a student with a secondary credential from a foreign country (e.g., an ESL student) included in the cohort for postsecondary education?

 A: Yes, students with secondary credentials earned in other countries must be included in the tracking cohort for entrance into postsecondary education.

 NOTE: ESL Students will no longer have the option of choosing the goal of “Enter Training”  All “Enter Training” Goals and Outcomes are Postsecondary  ESL Students with High School Credential will automatically be in cohort with goal of “Enter Postsecondary Education or Training”

Changes & Implications

 Employment (Goal of “Obtain a Job”)  Data for employment outcomes in FY12/13  ◦ ◦ ◦ Mixed reporting of cohorts Some when goals were selected by program/student Based on when they exit Some with automatic goals

Employment Outcomes

Quarter 2 FY12 Quarter 3 FY12 Quarter 4 FY12 Quarter 1 FY13 1 st Year Under New Rules FY12/13

 Retention  Data for Retention outcomes in FY12/13 

None

of the data in Year 1 of the NRS changes for

Retention of Employment

will be from automatic goal cohorts

Retain Employment Outcomes

Quarter 4 FY11 Quarter 1 FY12 Quarter 2 FY12 Quarter 3 FY12 1 st Full Year Under New Rules FY12/13

 Reporting will be on the new cohort of students with goals set automatically in ASISTS  OVAE has agreed that we may choose to Randomly Sample our state data  Programs will follow up on they do currently less students than  ASISTS will generate Quarterly Reports names of students to be surveyed with the

 The design of a Random Sample:  New York will be responsible for reporting the outcomes on 1085 students in each employment cohort  1085 students with the goal of Obtain a Job who have exited  1085 students with the goal of Retain Employment

Sample Program 3

• Sally Sitsalot • Joe Smith • Amy Brown

Students

70% Response

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Exiting students

 New Top Priority  When students have not attended for more than 90 days  They MUST be formally Exited out of ASISTS  Should they return, they can be re-activated by enrolling in a class

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Coding GED Prep Classes

 Should include ONLY students who are Eligible to sit for the Current GED®  All students enrolled in these classes will be automatically given the goal of

“Obtain the GED®”

 OPT score to be recorded for each student in these classes prior to referral to a testing site

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When Students take the current GED® exam

◦ All 5 content scores must be entered into ASISTS 

GED® pass rate

will be calculated for the program based on this information

 ASISTS will be posting the NYSED Quarterly GED® exam results for each agency  Programs must reconcile those reports!