Student Definitions and Measurement Approaches for the Core Indicators of Performance
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STUDENT DEFINITIONS
Secondary Level:
- CTE Participant: A secondary student who has earned one (1) or more credits in any career and technical education (CTE) program area.
- CTE Concentrator: A secondary student who has earned three (3) or more credits in a single CTE program area (e.g., health care or business services), or two (2) credits in a single CTE program area, but only in those program areas where 2 credit sequences at the secondary level are recognized by the State and/or its local eligible recipients.
Postsecondary/Adult level:
- CTE Participant: A postsecondary/adult student who has earned one (I) or more credits in any CTE program area.
- CTE Concentrator: A postsecondary/adult student who: (1) completes at least 12 academic or CTE credits within a single program area sequence that is comprised of 12 or more academic and technical credits and terminates in the award of an industryrecognized credential, a certificate, or a degree; or (2) completes a short-term CTE program sequence of less than 12 credit units that terminates in an industry recognized credential, a certificate, or a degree.
MEASUREMENT DEFINITIONS
Secondary Level
IS1 : Academic Attainment - Reading/Language Arts- Numerator: Number of CTE: concentrators who have met the proficient or advanced level on the Statewide high school readingllanguage arts assessment administered by the State under Section 11 11(b)(3) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act based on the scores that were included in the State's computation of adequate yearly progress (AYP) and who, in the reporting year, left secondary education.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who took the ESEA assessments in readingllanguage arts whose scores were included in the State's computation of AYP and who, in the reporting year, left secondary education.
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who have met the proficient or advanced level on the Statewide high school mathematics assessment administered by the State under Section 11 1 l(b)(3) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act based on the scores that were included in the State's computation of AYP and who, in the reporting year, left secondary education.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who took the ESEA assessments in mathematics whose scores were included in the State's computation of AYP and who, in the reporting year, left secondary education.
- Under these indicators, a State would not include in the data it reports under the Perkins Act a CTE concentrator who is a student who at the time of the administration of the State assessment had not attendedpublic schools within the State for a full academic year, as defined in the State's Consolidated State Application Accountability Workbook, because the State would not include this student in its computation of Statewide AYP under the ESEA.
- Under these indicators, a State would include in the data it reports under the Perkins Act a CTE concentrator who took the readingllanguage arts and mathematics assessments in the loth grade and dropped out in the 11th grade if the student's 1lth grade year is the reporting year.
- Under these indicators, if a State's Consolidated State Application Accountability Workbook allows for the State to report a student's last score on the readinglanguage arts and mathematics assessments for accountability purposes under the ESEA, the State may follow the same procedure for reporting the number of CTE concentrators who met the proficient or advanced level of an ESEA assessments because a State would report the same score for a CTE student as reported under the ESEA.
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who passed technical skill assessments that are aligned with industry-recognized standards, if available and appropriate, during the reporting year.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who took the assessments during the reporting year.
- Note for Indicator 2S1: The Department recognizes that a State may not have technical skill assessments that are aligned with industry-recognized standards in every CTE program area and for every CTE concentrator. OVAE expects that each State will identify, in Part A, Section VI (Accountability and Evaluation) of its new Perkins IV State plan, the program areas for which the State has technical skill assessments, the estimated percentage of students who will be reported in the State's calculation of CTE concentrators who took assessments, and the State's plan and timeframe for increasing the coverage of programs and students reported in this indicator to cover all CTE concentrators and all program areas in the future.
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who earned a regular secondary school diploma, earned a General Education Development (GED) credential as a State-recognized equivalent to a regular high school diploma (if offered by the State) or other State-recognized equivalent (including recognized alternative standards for individuals with disabilities), or earned a proficiency credential, certificate, or degree, in conjunction with a secondary school diploma (if offered by the State) during the reporting year.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who left secondary education during the reporting year.
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who, in the reporting year, were included as graduated in the State's computation of its graduation rate as described in Section 111l(b)(2)(C)(vi) of the ESEA.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who, in the reporting year, were included in the State's computation of its graduation rate as defined in the State's Consolidated Accountability Plan pursuant to Section 1111 (b)(2)(C)(vi) of the ESEA.
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who left secondary education and were placed in postsecondary education or advanced training, in the military service, or employment in the second quarter following the program year in which they left secondary education (i.e., unduplicated placement status for CTE concentrators who graduated by June 30,2007 would be assessed between October 1,2007 and December 3 1,2007).
- Denominator: Number of a'E concentrators who left secondary education during the reporting year.
- Numerator: Number of CTE participants from underrepresented gender groups who participated in a program that leads to employment in nontraditional fields during the reporting year.
- Denominator: Number of CTE participants who participated in a program that leads to employment in nontraditional fields during the reporting year.
- Numerator: Number of =I concentrators from underrepresented gender groups who completed a program that leads to employment in nontraditional fields during the reporting year.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who completed a program that leads to employment in nontraditional fields during the reporting year.
Postsecondary Level
1P1: Technical Skill Attainment- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who passed technical skill assessments that are aligned with industry-recognized standards, if available and appropriate, during the reporting year.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who took technical skill assessments during the reporting year.
- Note for Indicator IPI: The Department recognizes that a State may not have technical skill assessments that are aligned with industry-recognized standards in every CTE program area and for every CTE concentrator. OVAE expects that each State will identify, in Part A, Section VI (Accountability and Evaluation) of its new Perkins IV State plan, the program areas for which the State has technical skill assessments, the estimated percentage of students who will be reported in the State's calculation of CTE concentrators who took assessments, and the State's plan and timeframe for increasing the coverage of programs and students reported in this indicator to cover all CTE concentrators and all program areas in the future.
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who received an industry-recognized credential, a certificate, or a degree during the reporting year.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who left postsecondary education during the reporting year.
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who remained enrolled in their original postsecondary institution or transferred to another 2- or 4-year postsecondary institution during the reporting year and who were enrolled in postsecondary education in the fall of the previous reporting year.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who were enrolled in postsecondary education in the fall of the previous reporting year and who did not earn an industry-recognized credential, a certificate, or a degree in the previous reporting year.
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators who were placed or retained in employment, or placed in military service or apprenticeship programs in the 2nd quarter following the program year in which they left postsecondary education (i.e., unduplicated placement status for CTE concentrators who graduated by June 30, 2007 would be assessed between October 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007).
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who left postsecondary education during the reporting year.
- Numerator: Number of CTE participants from underrepresented gender groups who participated in a program that leads to employment in nontraditional fields during the reporting year.
- Denominator: Number of CTE participants who participated in a program that leads to employment in nontraditional fields during the reporting year.
- Numerator: Number of CTE concentrators from underrepresented gender groups who completed a program that leads to employment in nontraditional fields during the reporting year.
- Denominator: Number of CTE concentrators who completed a program that leads to employment in nontraditional fields during the reporting year.