NRS Changes & Implications

1. NRS Changes&Implications Central Southern Tier RAEN December 14, 2012

2. NewNYS Individual Student Record Form ISRF

3. Strategize Your Goal Setting • Automatic cohorts based on Demographic and Class Enrollment data • Demographic data can be edited/updated as necessary • Class enrollments can be changed as needed • Impacts ALL those students active in FY12/13 • Even if they were enrolled in previous years

4. Employment Status • 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

5. Check Table 6 Regularly

6. High School Equivalency Goals • 3 Opportunities for students to receive “Obtain GED” as a goal • When they TABE test at NRS Level #6 in BOTH math and reading • If all 5 GED scores are entered into ASISTS • Or when the student is enrolled in a class coded as Instructional Type “GED”

7. Postsecondary Goals • Students will automatically receive “Enter Postsecondary Education or Training”as a goal • Students who take and pass the current GED®, scores are entered into ASISTS • Earn a secondary credential or equivalent while enrolled • Have a secondary credential at entry (US or Foreign)

8. Bear in Mind! • USDOE and the President have emphasized the POST in “Enter PostsecondaryEducation or Training”as a goal • Outcomes must occur after the student achieves the High School Equivalency Diploma or High School Diploma

9. Postsecondary Goals 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 or Higher will automatically be in cohort with goal of “Enter Postsecondary Education or Training”

10. Follow Up Surveying Changes & Implications

11. Surveying for Follow Up Outcomes in FY12/13 There will be NO SAMPLING in FY13 All students must be surveyed However, Random Sampling Lists will be issued beginning January 2013 These lists will identify students who need to be surveyed, the results of that surveying will be credited on FY14 NRS Report!

12. Surveying for Follow Up Outcomes in FY12/13 Students included in the FY13 NRS Report with Follow Up Outcomes… Have exited your program by September 30th and the survey can (and should) be completed already!!

13. Surveying for Follow Up Outcomes in FY12/13 • Data for employment outcomes in FY12/13 • Quarters 2, 3, and 4 from FY12 • Quarter 1 from FY13 • All students have exited by September 30, 2012 • Outcome can be achieved while the student is with you OR in the first Quarter after exit!

14. Surveying for Follow Up Outcomes in FY12/13 • Data for retention of employment in FY12/13 • Quarter 4 of FY11 • Quarters 1, 2, and 3 of FY12 • Quarter 3 ended March 31, 2012 • Survey for these students can be anytime in Quarter 2 of FY13….Quarter 2 is October 1 through December 31st! • Now is the time to survey! • No students from FY13

15. Surveying for Follow Up Outcomes in FY12/13 • Obtain the HSE (GED® under NRS) • Enter Postsecondary Education or Training • Both outcomes include automatic cohorts beginning July 1, 2012 • Both cohorts include students exiting in Quarters 1, 2, 3, and 4 of FY13 • None of these students will ever be on a random survey list!

16. Goal History Reports in ASISTS

17. Goal History Reports in ASISTS

18. Beginning in FY13/14Employment Outcomes OVAE has agreed that we may choose to Random Sampleour state data ASISTS will generate Semi-AnnualReports with the names of students to be surveyed Those reports will begin in January 2013 Don’t wait! Survey those students as soon as you get the list!

19. Beginning in FY13/14Random Sampling • The first report will contain the names of the students your program is responsible for surveying • For Employment, these are students who exited your program in Quarter 2 of FY13 • For Retention, these are students who exited your program in Quarter 4 of FY12 and Quarter 1 and 2 of FY13 • ASISTS will generate Semi-AnnualReports with the names of students to be surveyed • January and July

20. MORE Changes in FY12/13 • Exiting students • New Top Priority • When students have not attended for more than 90 days • TheyMUSTbe formally Exited out of ASISTS • Should they return, they can be re-activated by enrolling in a class

21. Reports Already in ASISTS

23. MORE Changes in FY12/13 Coding GED Prep Classes Should include ONLY students who are Referred to the Current GED® All students enrolled in these classes will be automatically given the goal of “Obtain the GED®” OPT scores to be recorded for each student in these classes prior to referral to a testing site

24. MORE Changes in FY12/13 • 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 • Reminder of GED Supplement to the NYS Report Card

25. R. Matt/NYS Director of Accountability

26. Already in ASISTS

28. MORE Changes in FY12/13 ASISTS will be posting the NYSED Quarterly GED® exam results for each agency Programs must reconcile those reports Programs supported by EPE should plan for these changes

29. More NRS Strategies in Reporting

30. Managerial Strategies for Improving Program Evaluation Reports

31. Where to look for Gain? Prime candidates for a 2nd post test?

32. Strategize Post Testing Focus on the students that are close to their next level gain!

33. Students Achieving the HSE When students achieve the HSE (pass the GED®) If they have at least one NRS Level #6 (either Math or Reading) NYS Policy says you can archive the lower score Student is then counted in ASE High – NRS Level #6 where no Educational Gain or Post Test Rate calculated

35. Where else to look for Gain?

36. Post should be Pre!!

37. Your Report Card Score Should be a calculated event, not a happy accident!

38. Rosemary.matt@cayuga-cc.edu