NRS Updates and Changes

1. NRS Updates and Changes Central Southern Tier RAEN July 17, 2012

2. What happens beginning with FY12/13? • Goal Setting Targets are removed from Report Card and Program Evaluation Reports 10 points

3. Intake Process • 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 **

4. New NYS Individual Student Record Form ISRF

5. NYS new ISRF • 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

6. Goal Setting • 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

7. Employment Status

8. Employment Status

9. Employment Status

10. 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

11. NYS Data • 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

13. High School Equivalency Goals • Students who are enrolled in GED® preparation classes (will be coded accordingly) • Goal: Obtain the GED®

14. Some Programs Do Not Have Designated High School Equivalency Classes • Programs too small to afford separate level classrooms

15. Coding Classes Correctly!

16. Spanish GED® Students • Programs will need to code a class specifically to enroll ESL students who are preparing to take the Spanish GED®

17. Coding Classes Correctly!

18. High School Equivalency Goals • Students who take and pass the current GED® • Goal: Enter Postsecondary Education or Training

19. High School Equivalency Goals • Students who are enrolled in college transition classes or “bridge” classes • Goal: Enter Postsecondary Education or Training

20. High School Equivalency Goals • 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

21. High School Equivalency Goals • 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.

22. High School Equivalency 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 will automatically be in cohort with goal of “Enter Postsecondary Education or Training”

23. Follow Up Surveying Changes & Implications

24. Surveying for Follow Up Outcomes in FY12/13 • 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

25. Employment Outcomes

26. Surveying for Follow Up Outcomes in 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

27. Retain Employment Outcomes

28. Beginning in FY13/14 • 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 lessstudents than they do currently • ASISTS will generate Quarterly Reports with the names of students to be surveyed

29. Beginning in FY13/14 • 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

30. Beginning in FY13/14 70% Response

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

32. MORE Changes in FY12/13 • 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

33. 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

34. MORE Changes in FY12/13 • ASISTS will be posting the NYSED Quarterly GED® exam results for each agency • Programs must reconcile those reports!