NRS Goal Setting
Rosemary Matt
NYS Director of Accountability
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
Total Number of Students
Served in New York State
133,253 Students
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
NYS Student
Distribution
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Accountability
NYS Follow Up Outcomes
Core Follow Up
Outcome Measure
Number
Students
with Goal
Number
Students
Achieving
Outcome
Percent
Achieving
Outcome
Entered Employment
8,854
6,224
70%
Retained Employment
4,806
3,073
64%
Obtain GED/HS Diploma
6,543
5,785
88%
Entered Postsecondary
Ed/Training
9,839
8,433
86%
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Accountability
Secondary Outcomes
Secondary Outcome
Measure
Number
Students
with Goal
Number
Students
Achieving
Outcome
Percent
Achieving
Outcome
Left Public Assistance
24,148
1,307
5%
Achieved Citizenship Skills
11,224
5,598
50%
Increased Involvement in
Children’s Education
4,438
4,438
100%
Increased Involvement in
Children’s Literacy Activities
4,544
4,544
100%
605
355
59%
15,860
9,906
62%
Voted or Registered to Vote
Increased Involvement in
Community Activities
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
Goals need to be:
ƒ Realistic
ƒ Achievable
and
ƒ Measurable
within the given time frame
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
NRS Primary Goals:
Primary Goals:
1. Improve Basic Literacy Skills
2. Improve English Literacy Skills
3. Obtain a job
4. Retain current job
5. Improve current job
6. Earn GED Certificate
7. Earn a Secondary School Diploma
8 Enter Post Secondary Education
9. Enter Training
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
NRS Secondary Goals:
•Obtain Citizenship Skills
•Reduce Public Assistance
•Get involved in Community Activities
•Get involved in Children’s Education
•Get involved in Children’s Literacy Activities
•Vote or Register to vote
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
It’s all about the intake!
ƒ How well do you get to know your
students?
ƒ What probing questions do you ask your
students?
ƒ Do you share your expectations for their
correspondence?
ƒ Do you build expectations for the
students?
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
How do perpetuate the
contact?
ƒ Do your students know they will be
contacted after they exit your program?
ƒ Have you asked for additional contact
information from your student?
ƒ Perhaps a relative who is less likely to be
moving from the area?
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
BEFORE Setting Goals:
ƒ What do you know about this student?
ƒ Have you seen their intake assessment
scores?
ƒ Have you discussed long term goals with
the student?
ƒ What career path is the student
interested in pursuing?
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
Employment Goals:
ƒ Easy question → Employed or Unemployed?
ƒ More difficult question → Do you want a job?
ƒ Even more difficult questions →
ƒ What are you doing to find a job?
ƒ How many job applications have you
completed?
ƒ How many job interviews have you attended?
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
Our students tell us many
things but they do not
speak the NRS language!
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
What are they really
saying?
ƒ “I need to improve my reading so I can
read to my baby girl.”
ƒ Primary Goal = 1 (Improve Basic Skills)
ƒ Secondary Goal = 14 (Get involved in
children’s literacy activities)
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
What are they really
saying?
ƒ “I need to say English…I can know when
my kids go doctor.”
ƒ Primary Goal = 2 (Improve English
Literacy Skills)
ƒ Secondary Goal = 12 (Get involved in
community activities)
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
What are they really
saying?
ƒ “I need to improve my math so I can add
faster in my job. I am a waitress, I keep
making so many mistakes I’m gonna get
fired!”
ƒ Primary Goal = 1 (Improve Basic Literacy
Skills)
ƒ Primary Goal = 4 (Retain Current Job)
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
Retention of Employment
Goal:
ƒ When is it appropriate?
ƒ Mandated by NRS only once:
ƒ Student enters “Unemployed & Available”
ƒ Student has goal of “Obtain a Job”
ƒ Student obtains a job while in the program or
within one quarter after exit
ƒ Student must be assigned the goal of
“Retain Employment”
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
What are they really
saying?
ƒ “I just need to write better so I can pass the
GED writing test…I don’t want to do anything
else!”
ƒ Primary Goal = 1 (Improve Basic Literacy
Skills)
ƒ Primary Goal = 6 (Earn GED) AFTER
CHECKING STUDENTS TABE SCORES!
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
What are they really
saying?
ƒ “I want speak English, I go my daughter school
to see teacher.”
ƒ Primary Goal = 2 (Improve English Literacy
Skills)
ƒ Secondary Goal = 13 (Get involved in
children’s education)
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
What are they really
saying?
ƒ “I must talk better English and be US citizen to get job
at bank. Right now, I no can work, I need work now.”
ƒ Primary Goal = 2 (Improve English Literacy Skills)
ƒ Primary Goal = 3 (Obtain Job)
ƒ Secondary Goal = 10 (Obtain Citizenship Skills)
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
What are they really
saying?
ƒ “I am so sick of them (welfare) telling me what
to do…I need to get away from them.”
ƒ Primary Goal = 1 (Improve Basic Literacy
Skills)
ƒ Primary Goal = 3 Obtain a Job (possible)
ƒ Secondary Goal = 11 (Reduce Public
Assistance)
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
What are they really
saying?
ƒ “I need to get my GED so I can get a good paying job
instead of working for hardly no money! ”
ƒ Primary Goal = 1 (Improve Basic Literacy Skills)
ƒ Primary Goal = 6 (Earn GED) AFTER CHECKING
STUDENT’S TABE SCORES!
ƒ Primary Goal = 3 Obtain a Job (possibility)
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
Outcomes?
ƒ Listen to what your student’s say
ƒ Translate their words into NRS Outcomes
ƒ Record those outcomes
ƒ How does this happen?
ƒ What is the vehicle?
ƒ What does your data circle look like?
ƒ This action serves as your survey!
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
When the student says:
ƒ “I can’t come to your class no more on
Monday or Tuesdays cuz I gotta babysit
my sisters kids.”
ƒ Primary Outcome = 2 (Entered
Employment)
ƒ Assign the goal of “Retain Employment”
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
When the student says:
ƒ “I am so sick of getting called into my
kid’s school…what do they want me to
do, they’re the ones that are supposed to
keep him under control!”
ƒ Secondary Outcomes = F1 (Got Involved
in Children’s Education)
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
When the student says:
ƒ “I am so X#?#% mad, they X#?#%
sanctioned me!”
ƒ Secondary Outcome = W1 (Public
Assistance Reduced)
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
When the student says:
ƒ “Did you hear that Jeannie passed the
GED?”
ƒ Record GED Outcome for Jeannie
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability
Rosemary’s Contact Info:
ƒ Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
315.798.1026
R. Matt/NYS Director of
Accountability