Module 1: Navigating CERS�California Educator Reporting System User Guide

Assessment Services

CERS allows teachers and administrators to access their students' individual and aggregate test results from state summative and interim assessments. To access CERS, educators must use their assigned TOMS credentials.

• Site Coordinators : all students in school site with data analysis and site wide trends

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• Teachers: students in assigned groups to support Tier 1 instruction and small group support

How to access CERS:

• Go to caaspp.org and select the [California Educator Reporting System]
• From there you can access the user guide, the interpretive guide, and saved reports.

CERS LINK

CERS resource landing page: Access CERS or CERS Sandbox Training Tool.

The Sandbox mimics the reporting system with simulated test results data

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CERS Sandbox Training Tool

• Mimics the reporting system with simulated test results data
• Intended to help staff learn about the features and functions of CERS in a non-secure environment
• Offers users virtually the same functions as the reporting system but uses practice test items and fictitious student data

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Home Page

• When users log on to the California Educator Reporting System (CERS), the users are directed to the Home Page. This page allows users to perform tasks permitted in their assigned roles
• Resources
• Administrator Tools
• Search by Student
• Search by School
• Search by Group
• Welcome Side Bar
• System Notes

From the home page, you can access assessments 2 ways

• Search by Student (SSID)
• Search by group (Assigned Group)

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• Filter by school year, subject, assessment type
• Export data file
• Printable

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Search by Student

• Enter the student’s SSID into the box.
• The Student Test History Report page will display

Student Test History Report Results

The Student Test History Report are displayed in a dashboard format with each assessment that matches the selectors and advanced filters appearing as a separate card.

Each card contains:

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• An icon representing the assessment subject or topic
• The name and grade of the assessment
• The date the assessment was administered
• The student’s achievement level or reporting category for the assessment
• The number of results available for the assessment
• Selecting anywhere within this card displays a table of additional information below the card. Depending on the type of assessment chosen, this table contains slightly different information.

Student Test History Report Details Menu

• Each row in the Student Test History Report displays a Context Menu by selecting the three-dot icon that provides access to additional information

• For all interim assessments, this menu allows the user to view the student’s item responses for the selected assessment.

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• For IAB results, the menu also includes a link to Instructional Resources, such as the Smarter Balanced Connections Playlists in the Smarter Balanced Tools for Teachers application

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• For summative assessments, this menu is disabled

Student Response for Interims

• The Student’s Responses table includes student responses to interim assessment items. This table is available from the Student’s Test History Report page and from the Roster page for groups or schools.

• Selecting an assessment item’s down arrow icon expands the row to allow drilling-down into the item to view additional details

Export Data File

• The [Export CSV] button generates a data file for download containing all of the student’s test history for the selected school year, subject(s), and assessment type(s).

Search by Assigned Group and My Group

• The Assigned Groups and My Groups panel is available on the Home Page to allow quick access to assessment results by groups to which the user is assigned.

• Teachers can create customized groups of students selected from the Assigned Groups panel by selecting the [+ Create] button on the My Groups panel.
• Helpful for intervention work for a group of students, can look at results for just those students and drill down to the individual results, as well as monitor them in a group

View Student Assessment Results by School and Grade

• Assessment results by school are accessed by using the Search by School function.

• Test results have an advanced filtering capability that uses a variant of toggle buttons to allow users to select what to display in a report.

Selected Assessments

• By default, the system displays the most recent assessment for the selected school, grade, and school year, and the [Most Recent] button is selected. Selecting the [Select Assessments] button or the [Display] plus icon opens a lower panel that displays all available assessments

My Reports

• Most reports generated by the user appear on the My Reports page. This includes Printable Reports, Custom Aggregate Reports, and District / School Exports, and access depends on user permissions.

District / School Exports

• School administrator can export a CSV file containing all the district or school assessment results by student for a specific school year. The report includes all interim and summative assessment results available at the time the report is run
• The report has no filtering or customization features; however, the exported file may be filtered and sorted in a spreadsheet

Short video: How to access results in CERS�

More Resources

California Educator Reporting System (CERS) User Guide

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CAASPP Scoring and Reporting Guide

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Module 2: CERS Interpretive Guide

Contact Information

• Assessment Services
• CAASPP Coordinator: Olivia Jang
• Phone: 619-725-7061
• ZOOM: 411-417-1260
• Email: ojang@sandi.net

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• Director: Erika Simmons

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