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SSDT/EMIS Updates
May 2008
‘08 Year-end Updates
• Student Course (GN) Records– High School Credit Earned (GN150)• New option “P”• Only use when partial credit applies• Use “Y” when credit equals what is on the course
master record • “*” ‘Course does not earn credit’ no longer valid
– Instead use “Y” and 0.00 in the High School Credit element on the Course Master
– When “Y” and not = 0.00, error 467 is generated by aggs
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‘08 Year-end Updates
– Partial Credit allowed (GN152)• Must be numeric• Only valid when Credit Earned field = “P”• Overrides the credit value found on the Course Master• All credit earned may be included on this element
– If utilizing this option, Credit Earned value must = “P”– The default credit amount must still be on the Course Master
even if using this option
– Both changes announced in October 31, ‘07 Newsflash
– Completer flag was removed from record3
‘08 Year-end Updates
• EMSTCN/EMSSUB
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• EMIS Web Application
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• New Industry Assessment Test Record (GU) reported– Current students taking the Industry Assessment
Test must be reported in period “N”– Included in year-end aggs– First reported in March Follow-Up for prior year
concentrators
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• EMIS Web Application
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• Graduation Only Test (GP)– Previously called Ohio Proficiency Only– Used to report a student met classroom
requirements in a district not matching the one where they took the OGT
– District administering the OGT for this student reports the Graduation Only record
– Test scores are reported for the student• SSID included in aggregation record
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• OTELA record (GF) changes– Removed element GF290• Composite scaled score achieved by student
– Added element GF300• Composite performance level• Values
– “*” = Not applicable– “1-5” Performance level– “I” = Invalidated score
• Included in the year-end aggregations
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• EMSMGF
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• EMIS Web Application
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• Early Childhood Outcome (ECO)– First year-end reporting requiring this record type– Included in year-end aggs– Reported in October also
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’08 Year-end Updates
• Special Ed Element Change (GE)– Non-Compliance ID (GE130)• Added option ‘09’
– Should be used when the record for this student was not reported in a prior reporting period» Incorrect data» Missing » December 6, 2007 Newsflash
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• Changes in special education reporting– Special Ed exit date is critical• Found on the GI student demographic record• Only students with a special ed exit date in the current
school year are processed by the aggs
– Prior disability condition no longer used• Was found on the GI student demographic record
– IEP records from prior years will not be included in a current aggregation unless the student is newly enrolled at the district
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• Autism students should be reported the same for year-end as they were in February and October– Status = “Z”– Not program code ‘212100’
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• EMSRDET– If the Industry Assessment (GU) records are
selected for processing, only records with valid SSIDs are included• Must enter GU as a selection or processing for the
March reporting cycle in order for the GU records to be included and validated– GU would not normally be selected for reporting in “N”
• GU records not included when using option “N”• Fatal error 361 is issued, student not on demo
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• EMSVLD– Student ID is verified to exist on the student
demographics file (GI) or the CTE workforce development follow-up (GV)• If not found error 361 is issued, student not on demo
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• Enhanced CSV reports– District of residence added to• STUDENT_MISSING• MISSING_KRAL• MISSING_PS_ASQSE• PS_ECO_MISSING
– Withdraw date• STUDENT_MISSING
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• Default for blank Spring Administration IRN– Previously default was “******”– Default now will be building IRN from student
demographic record– Affects• Assessment/EMSTCN/Web application• OGT/EMSLDOGT/EMSTCN/Web application• Achievement/EMSLDACHV/EMSTCN/Web application• OTELA/EMSLDOTL/EMSTCN/Web application
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‘08 Year-end Update
• Definition of date for early aggregation processing is changed– For attendance checking
• No longer the last day of school• Calculated value
– Last day of school + 4 days
– HQPD requirement checks now uses early flag– No changes in methodology for the dates used in
course or testing records• June 15th
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‘08 Year-end Update
• Aggregations were modified to check program codes as they apply to the reporting period. Only the program codes required for the current reporting period will be included in the agg validation process. This will limit the errors to only relevant programs codes.
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• Date checks are all incremented by 1 year• Maximum number of allowed days increased
for community schools– Value was 250 days– Value now is 365
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’08 Year-end Updates
• Missing reports– ODE will generate missing reports as was the case
for October– Some missing staff issues occurred due to
incorrect location of EMSLID.IDX• File is no longer recreated each reporting year; local IDs
are permanent per district• Must have OECN$EMIS$COMMON point to location of
EMSLID.IDX for each district
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‘08 Year-end Updates
– Missing Staff Issues (con’t)• OECN$EMIS$COMMON should not be pointed to
OECN$EMIS$DTA• ITCs should not copy the EMSLID.IDX file to each fiscal
year
• Updates from ODE for reporting period “N”– Options file– Valid test combinations– Program codes
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• New DTR domain– SUBMITTED_GE_RECS
• Domain to allow ITCs to create reports showing the Special Education (GE) records submitted to ODE as included in the EMSAGG.SEQ file
• Spring 08 testing related updates– EMSLDACHV, EMSLDOGT, EMSLDOTL
• Test file from vendor is larger in size• New fields not used in EMIS
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• Criminal offense removed from general building record
• Course Master (CN)– Intent to become properly certified is no longer
valid
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‘08 Year-end Updates
• Obsolete programs– EMSFLM/SM1LM• EMSFCN – Removed spending plan option
– EMSFLM/SM2Lm– EMS_PSUNIT/EMS_SEUNIT
• Reminder for year-end– District & Building records– Both must be built for aggregations to process
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