October 3, 2018
Accountability Important Updates and Reminders:
Postsecondary Opportunities
The
Office of Accountability has important reminders and updates regarding data
collected for the Postsecondary Opportunities indicator on the new School
Report Cards. As a reminder, the Postsecondary Opportunities indicator is worth
10 out of 90 points (11% of the total). These data are collected via the
Postsecondary Opportunities Report in the Wave and from CareerTech, completed
in late spring and early summer, respectively. We recommend all high schools to
review the following information and ensure to their students’ data is reported
properly.
Students
may earn a credit for participating in College Prep Coursework (i.e. Advanced
Placement and International Baccalaureate), Internships, Dual (Concurrent)
College Enrollment or Industry Certification Programs (i.e. CareerTech career
major courses). Please note that Pre-Advanced Placement (Pre-AP) is not eligible.
Each
student receives 1
participation point regardless of how many eligible courses they are taking. To
earn a participation point, the student must have earned a D or higher in all
terms of the eligible coursework.
1. Fields
that are required to be
reported to the Wave from local
student information system (SIS) vendor. If any of the below fields are
missing/incomplete, the record cannot be used for accountability:
2. CareerTech coursework
is reported to SDE directly from CareerTech. This report is provided after the
close of the Postsecondary Opportunities report and thus is not visible in the
Wave. However, districts should work with their CareerTech liaison to ensure
that all students are properly reported.
3. The Office of Accountability is
committed to increasing data quality and accuracy. It is our goal that the data
is consistent between the local SIS and the Wave. In order to maintain
consistency and transparency, the local SIS should house the same data as in the Wave reports. Therefore, On Screen Data Entry, Bulk
Upload, and spreadsheet collection will not be available for the 2018-2019
school year. All data must be in the local SIS and reported to the Wave.
4. Concurrent classes must have the instructional level code of 0576. Schools
should use the OCAS course code that is closest to the course that the student
is taking as the State Course Code. In
addition, the class/course description may
be locally defined to identify the school and local course title appropriate
for the course that the student is taking.
5. As
the indicator points are based on participation, careful consideration has been
given to the denominator of “all students.” In order to ensure that all
students included in the denominator of the calculation were enrolled for a
period of time sufficient to complete a postsecondary opportunity, students who
are non-Full Academic Year (NFAY) are not included in this calculation.
For
more information, please see our Postsecondary
Opportunities Guidance. If you have any questions, please contact
the Office of Accountability at (405) 522-5169 or accountability@sde.ok.gov
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