Section 107 Follow-up Report 

Form AE-4859 Rev. 8/06

You can find this report at Menu:7.5.3.4.Section 107 Followup in your trusty STUREC(c)

Report adults counted as participants from July 1 to June 30 of the program year that met objectives by: ABE - increase at least one grade level in Reading or Math; ESL - achievement of basic English proficiency; GED - Pasage of the GED test; HSC - passage of a course required for a diploma, or Obtained Diploma; OR - completion of a course and demonstration of proficiency in the academic skills to be learned in the course, as applicable. This is the "Michigan Department of Education form AE-4859" Rev.8/06.

Let's break this into small bite-sized chunks so a stupid computer can understand. (and its not-so-bright programmer).

"counted as participants" this means the student must have been counted for Participant FTE in September or February (also July or April if you counted those periods).

STUREC(c) checks these things:

"ABE - increase at least one EFL" 
     are they are enrolled as ABE?
     do they have more than zero actual FTE in a 9000 class?
     do they have a pre-test dated April 1of last school year, or later?
     if yes, record the type (Reading, Math or Language/Listening) and score.
        do they have a post-test dated between July 1 June 30 of the current year?
        if yes, does the type match the pre-test?
           if yes, is the EFL of the post-test higher than the pre-test EFL?
             if yes
                *- one headcount will be added to the line headcount column
                *- the actual FTE value for all 9000 classes with a recorded final grade of 
                    "P" or  "S" (Passing or Satisfactory) will be added to the FTE column.

"ESL - achievement of basic English proficiency"
     are they are enrolled as ESL?
     do they have more than zero actual FTE in a 9000 class?
     do they have a pre-test dated April 1of last school year, or later?
     is the pre-test EFL less than the highest level?
     if yes
       do they have a post-test dated between July 1 and June 30 of the current year?
       if yes, is the EFL equal to High Advanced or higher?
          if yes
            *- one headcount will be added to the line headcount column
            *- the actual FTE value for all 9000 classes with a recorded final grade of 
                "P" or "S" (Passing or Satisfactory) will be added to the FTE column.

"GED - Pasage of the GED test"
     do they have more than zero actual FTE in a non-9000 class?
     do they have a GED Certificate date within the school year?
      if yes
          *- one headcount will be added to the line headcount column
          *- the actual FTE value for all non-9000 classes with passing final grades 
              will be added to the FTE column.

"HSC - passage of a course required for a diploma"
     are they are enrolled as ASE or HSC?
     do they have more than zero actual FTE in a non-9000 class?
     did they receive a final grade of A,B,C,D or P?
     if yes
          *- one headcount will be added to the line headcount column
          *- the actual FTE value for all non-9000 classes with a passing grade 
              will be added to the FTE column
OR

"HSC - Obtained Diploma"
     do they have more than zero actual FTE in a non-9000 class?
     do they have a High School Diploma date within the school year?
      if yes
          *- one headcount will be added to the line headcount column
          *- the actual FTE value for all non-9000 classes with a passing grade
              will be added to the FTE column

ELSE

"completion of a course and demonstration of proficiency in
the academic skills to be learned in the course, as applicable."

     do they have more than zero actual FTE in any class?
     did they receive a final grade of A,B,C,D or P,S?
     were they not counted on any line above?
     if yes
          *- one headcount will be added to the line headcount column
          *- the actual FTE value for any classes with passing grades 
              will be added to the FTE column

For any Component/Objective, all the questions must be answered "Yes". A student may only be counted on one line.

See, a computer is pretty dumb. Other than numbers, everything must be broken into a series of questions that can be answered with a Yes or a No. This is called a "decision diamond" or preferably "binary logic". If the question asked is answered with a Yes, then another question is asked or a particular task is performed. If a question is answered with a No then the same thing happens; another question is asked or a task performed. In this design, "No" answers will mean that no more questions will be asked and the computer program will skip to the next student and begin asking questions all over again. Only when all questions in a group result in Yes answers will the student be counted for this report. In all except the ABE line, the order the questions are asked is not significant. 

Fortunately, the computer can do this very quickly and never gets bored or tired.

Speaking of ABE, there is a little conundrum we need to face. You enter your "Official Assessments" scores as standardized or scale scores which equate to EFLs not grade levels. The question is now, how do we discern "grade levels" from this data the way it is entered? Because, as you know each EFL is approximately two or even three grade levels.  We have been told that there is such a thing as a scale score to grade level conversion table floating around out in the wild, but we have not seen such a thing.

If you disagree with the results produced by this report, by all means change the results to reflect what you believe to be a better representation of your program before you sign the document and turn it in.

If you have further questions interpreting rules as promulgated by the Department of Labor and Economic Growth., please be kind enough to contact one of their fine staff for a full and complete explanation of their own rules. You might start here.

Dianne Duthie, Adult Education Director: 517-373-8800.