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Release Name: Data Verification Report - 2006-07 High School Annual Assessments; Assessment Reports - NYSAA Summaries

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Release Summary
nySTART

• Login Page
• Updated text with information about deployment
• Verification  Reports
• Links under 2006-07 High School Annual Assessment Verification Report have been enabled with scores for Regents Examination, Regents Competency Test, Second Language Proficiency, and Component Retests.  
• Assessment  Reports
• Within the Summary Reports section, the links for NYSAA ELA, Math Social Studies, and Science have been enabled.   PDF Summary reports have been loaded for Districts, Schools, BOCES Regions, BOCES Schools, and State Agencies.  

Parent Web

• After clicking Additional Resources, then clicking Translation Guides link, NYSAA 2007 Translation Guides have been uploaded.  This is in preparation for the planned October 16th release of NYSAA ISRs on nySTART. 

Not Available
The nySTART application on 10/4/2007 release will NOT contain the following:

• Within the Report Cards section, there is NO refresh of 2006-07 pre-AOR (previews of Accountability and Overview Reports.)  Latest data are still as of Friday, September 21, 2007, and again, only the Accountability sections of these files are populated at this time. The next refresh is currently planned for release on Tuesday, October 9th.
• 2006-07 NYSAA ISR PDF reports
• 2001-03 Total Cohort Verification Report
• 2006-07 High School Annual Services Verification Report
• Non-Accountability sections of the 2006-07 Accountability and Overview Reports
• 2006-07 Comprehensive Information Reports

Defects Fixed
Verification Reports

• Within the High School section  the following changes have been made: 
• 2006-07 Total Cohort Reports - link to instruction letter activated;
• 2006-07 Total High School Annual Assessment Reports: added link to instruction letter;
• 2006-07 Other Annual High School Reports: added link to instruction letter;
• Career Technical Education:  change link from "Enrollment" to "Results";
• Change "Credential" to "Credentials" Earned; changed link from "Enrollment" to "Outcomes";
• Dropouts/Transfers: changed link from "Enrollment" to "Outcomes";
• Post Secondary Plans:  change link from "Enrollment" to "Outcomes"

Assessment Reports

• Within the Interactive Reports section, when logged in as a district, the footnote text had an erroneous reference to a “Grade Level” header.  The footnote now reads:  All reports in the nySTART Assessment Data module associate students with schools based upon enrollment at the time of testing.  "Grade" here refers to the grade of the test taken by the student.

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To contact us regarding the nySTART system, please send e-mail to nystart@mail.nysed.gov

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