Release Notes for nySTART
Release Name: Data Verification Report - Accountability sections of the pre-AOR (preview of the Accountability and Overview Report) portion of the Report Card
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Applications Released
- nySTART
- Access to previews of the 2006-07 Accountability and Overview Reports (accountability section only) for authorized users in RICs, Districts and Schools.
- Access to the 2006-07 NYSTP ELA and NYSTP MATH Out-of-District Summary Reports for authorized users in RICs and Districts.
- Access to 2006-07 NYSTP ELA and NYSTP MATH State Agency Summary Reports for authorized users in State Agencies.
Reports Released
- Login Page
- Updated text with information about deployment
- Verification Reports
- Under Report Cards > 2006-07, enabled “Accountability and Overview Report” link
- Assessment Reports
- For RICs and Districts, after choosing Interactive Reports > 2006-07 NYSTP ELA or 2006-07 NYSTP Math, then selecting Out of District under Out of District Placements in the Location dropdown, link is now enabled for Out-of-District Summary Report (this link is in the upper right, below the gold box labeled “Summary Reports”; the link is currently labeled “View the School Summary Report for 2006-07 NYSTP ELA” but it is the District Summary)
- For State Agency users, after choosing Interactive Reports > 2006-07 NYSTP ELA or 2006-07 NYSTP Math, then selecting Out of District under Out of District Placements in the Location dropdown, link is now enabled for Out-of-District Summary Report (this link is in the upper right, below the gold box labeled “Summary Reports”; the link is currently labeled “View the School Summary Report for 2006-07 NYSTP ELA”)
- Enable Links for State Agency users for 2006-07 NYSTP ELA and NYSTP MATH Summary Reports
Not Available
On 9/5/2007, the nySTART application release will not contain the following:
- Non-Accountability sections of 2006-07 pre-AORs (Accountability and Overview Report previews)
- 2006-07 CIRs (Comprehensive Information Reports)
- 2006-07 NYSAA Summary and NYSAA ISR PDF report
- 2006-07 High School Annual Assessment Verification Report
- 2001-03 Total Cohort Verification Report
- 2006-07 High School Annual Services Verification Report
Major Known Issues
- If data in PDFs appear to have merged with adjacent rows or columns (this has been noted intermittently in pre-AORs), this may require an update to version 7.0 of Adobe Reader. This may require coordination with your institution’s IT support team.
- The 2007-08 accountability status for districts is correct, but the prospective (2008-09) accountability status for districts is incorrect. This will be corrected in an upcoming release and noted when fixed.
- No data are appearing for 12 E/M ELA feeder schools.
- NYSESLAT Eligible flag is ignored for students with a start date before September 1, 2006. If these students were continuously enrolled through the NYSESLAT administration period in May 2007, a valid score on NYSESLAT reading/writing and listening/speaking can be used to satisfy the participation requirement in English language arts. The current reports show these students as not tested.
- The link to the Certification Form is not included in the lobby page.
Major Defects Fixed
School account type, Enrollment section
- When logged in as Charter School, under Assessment Reports section, Enrolled subheading, clicking on 2005-06 Assessment from the Main Lobby, if you chose a grade and generated a PDF, the Assessment Grades were not showing in the PDFs. This has been fixed.
Guided Analysis
- Multiracial group was missing in GA Subgroup Filters and has now been added.
- NYSESLAT reports: the text description of the performance level “Basic” has been changed to “Beginning.”
Verification Reports
- Reading First reports: No student rows appeared when drilling through from the School to the Student Report when clicking on the “All Students” column. This error has been fixed.
High School Accountability Report
- Sort Order for Cohort Report C is now in BEDs code order then alpha by Student Name.
To contact us regarding the nySTART system, please send e-mail to
nystart@mail.nysed.gov
This page was last updated on
2007-09-10 10:12 AM
URL: http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/irts/nystart/2007/documentation/R11/release-notes.shtml
