Welcome to this special SAA Update!

In this special SAA Update we bring you the following timely information:

• 2007 Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Data
• CST Results Available on SIS C/S
• Summary CST Results Available on the District's Website

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The 2007 Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) data were released by the California Department of Education (CDE) in August. Results for the California Standards Tests (CSTs), California Achievement Test (CAT/6), California Alternative Performance Assessment (CAPA) test results, California's Designated Primary Language Test (DPLT) - Aprenda 3, and the new Standards-base Tests in Spanish (STS) for grades 2 through 4 are available online at http://star.cde.ca.gov/star2007/Viewreport.asp. State, County, District, and school level data are available on the STAR website. District and school reports are now available on the Standards, Assessment, and Accountability Division website at http://studata.sandi.net/research/cst/index.asp. Prior years' reports are also available.

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2007 California Standards Test (CST) results have been uploaded to the mainframe client-server and are available on the Student Achievement Data System (SADS) via a variety of queries. CST results can be accessed using queries 572 (by grade level), 573 (by section-secondary), 574 (by class-elementary), and 575 (CST by grade level, all strands).  All queries should work provided that the school's new master schedule data have been loaded into SIS.
 
Note that if 2007 results are desired for pre-enrolled students for the 2007-08 school year, the enrollment school year should be entered as '20072008' and the enrollment status should be 'P'; the test year will be '20062007'.  If 2007 results are desired for last year's students, the enrollment school year should be entered as '20062007' and the enrollment status should be 'I' (inactive).
 
California Achievement Test (CAT/6) results will be uploaded early next week. When the CAT/6 results become available (likely Wednesday, September 5), the data can be accessed using queries 614 (alphabetical lists) and 628 (for a single student).  When accessing these reports, the usual care should be taken in the choice of enrollment school year and test year, as well as with the enrollment status code. Initial questions regarding the use of queries should be directed to the school site technician. Additional information is available at http://studata.sandi.net/research/siscs/index.asp.

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California Standards Test (CST) summary (disaggregated) results are now available on the Standards, Assessment, and Accountability Division website at http://studata.sandi.net/research/cst/index.asp .
 
CST results include the following:

School Summary Sheets, showing the percentage of students scoring at the proficient or advanced performance levels for each subject area, for the school as a whole and for each grade level, broken out by various demographic categories.

Multi-School Testing Summaries for 2003-2007, showing the percentages of students scoring at the proficient or advanced performance levels for English Language Arts and Mathematics, as well as NCLB (grade level) and end-of-course Science and History/Social Science, for each year, and showing change from 2003 and from 2006 to 2007, for each school as a whole and for each grade level, with separate reports for various demographic groups.
 
Additional CST reports will be posted later this week and early next week. These include the following:

Performance Levels by Grade Reports, for English Language Arts and Mathematics, as well as grade-level (NCLB) Science and History/Social Science, showing graphic multi-year performance level distributions for each subject area for the school as a whole and for each grade level.
 
Performance Levels by Subject Reports, showing graphic multi-year performance level distributions for each mathematics and science subject test in grades 8-11 for the school as a whole and for each grade level.
   
Strand Performance Summaries, showing how students at each school and for the district as a whole performed on individual strands of each California Standards Test and through comparison with performance of minimally proficient students statewide, as well as relative strengths and weaknesses of strand performance.
 
Two-Year Strand Performance Summary Comparisons, showing how students at each school and for the district as a whole performed on the individual strands of each California Standards Test in 2006 and 2007, how performance compared with performance of minimally proficient students statewide each year, and how much improvement or decrement in performance occurred from 2006 to 2007.

CAT/6 results will be posted within the next two weeks.

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If you have questions and/or comments about this information, please contact us.