Transcript NRS Reporting What does it all mean? Rosemary Matt NYS Director of Accountability PEELING BACK THE LAYERS….

NRS Reporting
What does it all mean?
Rosemary Matt
NYS Director of Accountability
PEELING BACK
THE LAYERS….
Why?
Data Rich Environment
Grounded in Continuous
Improvement
Striving for Increased Learner
Outcomes
Some reminders!
Relationship between Post Test
Rate and Educational Gain
NRS 101
 Students begin to count on NRS Reporting when they
have accrued 12 or more contact hours
 Students must have 5 demographic fields complete to
count on ANY report
 Name
 DOB
 Ethnicity
 Gender
 Employment Status
 Students must have a valid pre test
These students and their hours are
not counted!
Educational Gain
Students must be tested in BOTH Math
and Reading
Educational Gain is measured only in the
LOWER of these two scores
Follow Up Outcomes
NRS Automatic Goal Cohorts
 Employment
 Retention of Employment
 Enter Postsecondary Education or Training
 Obtain High School Equivalency Diploma
NRS Automatic Goal Cohorts
 Completion of certain Demographic Fields
will trigger Follow Up Outcomes
Employment Goal
Selecting:
Unemployed
Goal automatically selected:
Obtain Employment
Retain Employment Goal
Selecting:
Employed Part Time
Employed Full Time
Goal automatically selected:
Retain Employment
Enter Postsecondary Education
or Training
Selecting:
12 HS Diploma
Goal automatically selected:
Enter Postsecondary
Education or Training
Selecting:
High School Diploma or
higher level degree for an ESL
student
Goal automatically selected:
Enter Postsecondary
Education or Training
HSE Diploma Goal
 Test assessments are NRS Level 6 in both
Math and Reading
HSE Diploma Goal
 Enrolled in a GED/HSE coded class
HSE Diploma Goal
 Referred to an HSE test center (TAF)
 Students should not be enrolled in a GE (HSE) coded
class until they are officially referred to a testing
center
HSE Diploma Goal
 Referred to an HSE test center (TAF)
Before signing in to ASISTS
Become familiar with the Resources
available on ASISTS sign in page
Resources
 Resources can be
searched by selecting a
keyword such as
“Reports” or “TABE”
 Each Resource is downloadable and can be
saved or printed
ASISTS Tool bar:
Program Evaluation Report
Selecting Funding in ASISTS
 First step to running any reports is to select the correct
funding sources
 The funding codes for New York State Department of
Education are as follows:
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WIA
WIA Title II
EPE
EL Civics
Corrections
ALE
LZ WEP/WIA 2013 - 2018
Watermelon theory
Disaggregating Reports
 All Reports in ASISTS can
be disaggregated
(separated out) in the
following ways:
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By Site
By Teacher
By Class
By Type of Programming
(ESL or ABE or GED)
Program Evaluation by Teacher
Teacher #1
Teacher #2
NRS Data Check Reports:
NRS Data Check Reports:
 Must remember to select correct funding
sources
 Also choose disaggregation before selecting
the report you want to see
NRS Data Check Reports
Data Check
Reports follow
an order of
priority in the
way they are
listed in ASISTS
Students Missing Key Demographic
Students will not appear on
any other reports if they are
missing a key demographic!
Students with Invalid Test Scores
Students with No Pre-test
Those contact hours > 35 are
not eligible for EPE
On this page alone, 329
hours were lost = $2,560
Assessments
Enrollment
CIRCLE of DATA
Data Collection
Data Input
(Intake)
Reports &
Review
TABE Reminders
 Reminders:
 Locater – only one step in determining the initial test
level
 Calculator can and MUST be provided on the Applied
Mathematics section of the TABE
 Gain is only measured on the lowest score
 Diagnostic Tools:
 The hand scored diagnostic
 The ScanTron electronically scored diagnostic
 Becomes the teacher’s road map to educational
planning for the student
TABE Training
 Reminders:
 Analyze ASISTS report:
Students Not Moving to Higher Level
 Indicates not only those with no post test but also
those with no gain
 NO Level A test
 NO Level E (max 6.9 GE) in NRS 4 (6 – 8.9) or
above
 NO Level M (max 9.9) in NRS 5 (9 – 10.9) or above
 NO Level L
Students not Moving to a
Higher Level
Cannot use a Level E to move from
NRS Level 4 to NRS Level 5!
Cannot use a Level M to move from
NRS Level 5 to NRS Level 6!
Should not use a TABE A for
any level below NRS Level 5
NEEDS FURTHER INVESTIGATION
NEEDS FURTHER INVESTIGATION
ABE EDUCATIONAL
FUNCTIONING LEVELS
ESL EDUCATIONAL
FUNCTIONING LEVELS
Work Smarter, Not Harder!
Assessment
Targeted
Instruction
Educational
Gain
Targeted instruction
Then Post
Test
Diagnostic Process: how to begin
Locator
Full Battery
Scoring
Placement in
Instructional
Program
Strategically post testing
 Use NRS Table 4 Data Check Report to target
students with heavy hours and no gain
 Dig deep to hunt out students that are at the cusp of
showing gain
 At high end of Educational Functioning Level
 This applies to both ESL and ABE students
 Use the Turnaround Documents to hunt out the
students with most probable gain
TABE RANGES AND CUSP SCORES
NRS Level
Educational Level
TABE Range
Cusp Range
1
2
3
4
5
Beginning ABE Literacy
Beginning ABE
Low Intermediate ABE
High Intermediate ABE
ASE Low
0 – 1.9
2.0 – 3.9
4.0 – 5.9
6.0 – 8.9
9.0 – 10.9
1.7 – 1.9
3.7 – 3.9
5.7 – 5.9
8.7 – 8.9
10.7 – 10.9
BEST PLUS RANGES AND CUSP SCORES
NRS Level
Educational Level
BEST Plus Range
Cusp Range
1
2
3
4
5
6
Beginning ESL Literacy
Low Beginning ESL
High Beginning ESL
Low Intermediate ESL
High Intermediate ESL
Advanced ESL
85 – 400
401 – 417
418 – 438
439 – 472
473 – 506
506 - 540
385 – 400
413 – 417
433 – 438
465 – 472
500 – 506
536 – 540
BEST LITERACY RANGES AND CUSP SCORES
NRS Level
Educational Level
BEST Literacy Range
Cusp Range
1
2
3
4
5
6
Beginning ESL Literacy
Low Beginning ESL
High Beginning ESL
Low Intermediate ESL
High Intermediate ESL
Advanced ESL
0 – 20
21 – 52
53 – 63
64 – 67
68 – 75
Not valid as pre-test
17 – 20
47 – 52
59 – 63
65 – 67
71 – 75
Not valid as pre-test
Follow up outcomes
Who are they???
Continuous improvement
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Who are they?
Where did they go?
Can we get them back?
Why did they not stay?
Contact information
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