ETS-STAR RCAN UPDATE
August 9, 2013
UPDATES
• Post Test Webcast was on August 7th
Should be archived no later than August 14
Slides are available at startest.org
•Demographic Data Corrections
The Window will open on September 16th
Please refer to the Post Test guide regarding
changes between the STAR Management system
and CALPADS
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Replacement CD’s
• Your district may have been sent a data CD with an
incorrect year in position 111, “Testing Start Date.”
The year portion of this field, which is
automatically added in an effort to reduce district
bubbling, was not updated for 2013, which resulted
in incorrect data in this field. This issue is limited
to the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR)
data CD and does not affect any student scores or
any paper reports.
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2014 Setting Up Administration
1. Return the 2014 Superintendent’s Designation
form and Security Agreement.
2. Finalize instruction schedule.
3. Set up admin in STAR management system prior
to December 1.
4. Enter and approve orders prior to December 1.
After order approval, test administration dates are
NOT changeable.
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What’s New in 2013
• Standards-based Tests in Spanish (STS)
performance levels are now also reported for
students in grades 8–11who took the grade-level
STS for RLA, STS for Algebra I, and STS for
Geometry.
• The score for the California Standards Test (CST)
for Writing is no longer doubled; possible scores
are 1, 2, 3, and 4.
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Manual
(M) 2 – 3
What’s New in 2013
• Enrollment and exit code data to determine which
students are counted as “continuously enrolled” for
accountability purposes, previously collected for
(CBEDS), were not collected on STAR answer
documents or in Pre-ID. Instead, these data were
extracted from the California Longitudinal Pupil
Achievement Data System (CALPADS).
• Please refer to pages 2 and 3 in the 2013 Post Test
Guide for a list of all changes.
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M2–3
What’s New in 2013
• ELA scale scores for the grades 4 and 7 CSTs and
California Modified Assessment (CMA) will be
provided based on the multiple-choice items only
and the reporting cluster “Writing Applications”
is no longer part of the CST and CMA ELA
cluster groups; instead, the writing score is
provided as a standalone score called “Writing
Response Score.”
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M2–3
Next Webcasts
2013 Demographic Data Corrections
September 25, 2013, 9 a.m.
2014 STAR for Students with
Disabilities Webcast
September 25, 2013, 1 p.m.
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