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Chapter 11: Verifying Data in the <strong>SIRS</strong><br />

Students who are allowed to take a <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>State</strong> Alternate Assessment (NYSAA) or<br />

the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>State</strong> English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSESLAT) in lieu of<br />

the NYSTP assessments will be listed as Not Tested on these reports. As such, these reports<br />

cannot be used to determine participation rates and performance indices for accountability.<br />

The Elementary/Middle-Level Accountability Verification Reports can be used to determine<br />

participation rates and performance indices.<br />

Factors That May Cause 2010–11 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>State</strong> Testing Program (NYSTP) Grades 3–8<br />

ELA and Mathematics Tested/Not Tested Verification Reports Counts to Be Inaccurate:<br />

• If a student is included in the wrong subgroup in Report B, check the demographic and<br />

program service codes that have been reported for the student to ensure that they are<br />

accurate.<br />

• If a student is incorrectly listed as enrolled in your district and required to participate in<br />

testing, check the student’s record to make sure that the dates of enrollment and/or<br />

discharge are correct and that the student’s grade level—or, if ungraded, birth date—<br />

are recorded correctly.<br />

• If a student whom your district tested is not listed in this report, check that the<br />

enrollment and discharge dates on their repository records are correct. Students are<br />

not listed in a district report unless their repository records show them as enrolled at<br />

some time during the official test administration and make-up period.<br />

• If a student is incorrectly listed as taking the assessment at an inappropriate grade<br />

level, check that the student’s grade level—or, if ungraded, birth date—is reported<br />

accurately.<br />

• If a student whom your district tested does not have a test record, check with your scan<br />

center to see if they received the student’s scannable answer documents.<br />

• Do not be concerned if a student who is taking the NYSAA to meet the English<br />

language arts testing requirement is listed as not tested. Data for these students can be<br />

verified in the NYSAA and accountability verification reports.<br />

• Do not be concerned if a student who is taking the NYSESLAT to meet the English<br />

language arts testing requirement is listed as not tested. To be eligible to take the<br />

NYSESLAT, the student must be recorded in the repository system as a LEP-eligible<br />

student who was enrolled in grades 3–8 (or ungraded age equivalent) who on April 1,<br />

2011 will have been attending school in the United <strong>State</strong>s for the first time for less than<br />

one year and have a program service code of 0242. Data for these students can be<br />

verified in the accountability verification reports.<br />

2010–11 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>State</strong> Testing Program (NYSTP) Grades 4 and 8 Science Tests<br />

Verification Reports<br />

The 2010–11 <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>State</strong> Testing Program (NYSTP) Grades 4 and 8 Science Tests<br />

Verification Reports shows students reported in the Student Information Repository System<br />

(<strong>SIRS</strong>) who met one of the following criteria:<br />

181 Student Information Repository System Manual for 2010–11 Version 6.2

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