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Chapter 5: Reporting Rules
Accelerated Elementary-Level Science Students and Grades 3–8 ELA and
Mathematics Students
Accelerated students may not take the elementary-level science or grades 3–8 ELA or
mathematics tests if they are not grade or age appropriate for the test. Students whose results
on these assessments are reported when they are not grade or age appropriate will be
considered to have no valid test score when participation rate accountability calculations are
made.
Accelerated Intermediate-Level Science Students
Grade 8 Intermediate-Level Science Test results for accelerated science students who
take the assessment in Grade 7 (or, if ungraded, when Grade 7 age equivalent) must be
reported in the year in which they take the assessment. If the students also take a Regents
examination in science in Grade 8 (or, if ungraded, when Grade 8 age equivalent), results for
that assessment must be reported in the year in which they take the assessment. (The
Regents examination in science taken in Grade 8 will be used for accountability calculations
for these students.) If the students take the Grade 8 Intermediate-Level Science Test in Grade
7 (or, if ungraded, when Grade 7 age equivalent) but do not take a Regents examination in
science in Grade 8 (or, if ungraded, when Grade 8 age equivalent), the Assessment Measure
Standard Description "Science: Early" will be populated for them at Level 2 when the students
are in Grade 8. (The Grade 8 Intermediate-Level Science Test taken in Grade 7 will be used
for accountability calculations for these students.) Students who take the Grade 8
Intermediate-Level Science Test when they are in Grade 7 (or, if ungraded, when Grade 7 age
equivalent) are not required to retake the test when they advance to Grade 8.
Career and Technical Education Program Students
Career and technical education (CTE) programs are those focused on career or
occupational training. Located in high schools and BOCES, CTE programs provide academic
and technical instruction in the content areas of agriculture, business and marketing, family
and consumer sciences, health occupations, trade and technical education and/or technology
education. CTE programs are comprised of at least three CTE courses or units of study that
together form a cohesive concentration.
Cohesive concentrations are groups of courses or units of study that when combined
make up a program. These courses or units of study may be from one of the six CTE content
areas or from a combination of these content areas. As CTE programs at local high schools
often cross content areas and may not be predefined or linear in nature, and CTE students at
local high schools build meaningful cohesive concentrations based on individual interests, the
selection of a specific program service code (see the CIP codes in Appendix 10) may prove
more difficult than the selection of such a code for CTE programs at BOCES and Technical or
CTE high schools. In this case, the local high school can use one of the following more broadbased
program service codes: Agriculture (010599); Business and Marketing (529999); Family
and Consumer Sciences (199999); Health Occupations (519999); Technology Education
(151599); or Trade and Technical (489999). These reflect the six major CTE content areas. If a
student is in programs from two of these content areas, the code to be reported should be the
one in which the majority of the student’s time is spent.
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