What is the Assessment Data Dictionary?

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The Assessment Data Dictionary included fields from student assessment data exports. Exports can display in one of two ways: pivoted and unpivoted. The fields available will vary depending on the type of export and assessment type.

Default Export Format

This is the default for data exported through the reporting website. This data is pivoted, and each assessment in the export has its own column. For more information on running reports and exporting data, please visit Export Data and Print Reports.

Variable

Description

Format or Definition

Product

STUDENT_ID

Student ID

Unique district-assigned ID

All

LNAME

Last name

Student family name

All

FNAME

First Name

Student given name

All

DOMAIN

Enrolled campus

campus.district.state ‡

All

DOMAIN_AT_TAKE

Enrolled campus at the time of assessment

campus.district.state ‡

All

GRADE

Grade level

Number 1-12 | 0 = Kinder, -1 = PreK

All

GENDER *

Gender

M|F

All

BIRTHDATE

Date of Birth

m/d/yyyy

All

RACE *

Race

AA = African American

AN = American Indian or Alaska Native

PI = Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander

WH = White

OT = Other

2M = Two or More

All

SPECIAL_ED *

Special Education

Y|N

All

CLASS_INSTR *

Instructional Type

G = General Education

E = English Second Language

B = Bilingual Education

All

ECON_DISADV *

Economically Disadvantaged

Y|N

All

ENG_PROFICIENCY *

English Proficiency

0 = Native English Speaker

L = English Language Learner (ELL)

F = Former ELL

All

DISABILITY *

Disability Condition

AI = Auditory Impairment

AU = Autism

ED = Emotional Disturbance

LD = Specific Learning Disability

MR = Intellectual Disablility

NCEC = Noncategorical ISIP Childhood

OI = Orthopedic Impairment

OHI = Other Hearing Impairment

SI = Speech/Language Impairment

TBI = Traumatic Brain Injury

VI = Visual Impairment

DD = Developmental Delay

MD = Multiple Disabilities

DB = Deaf-Blindness

D = Deafness

All

ETHNICITY *

Ethnicity

N = Not Hispanic/Latino

H = Hispanic/Latino

All

ISIP_ACCOM *

ISIP Accommodations

Y|N

All

G/T *

Gifted/Talented

Y|N

All

HOMELESS *

Homeless

Y|N

All

MIGRANT *

Migrant

Y|N

All

NATIVE_LANG *

Native Language

EN = English

ES = Spanish

ZH = Chinese

TL = Tagalog

VI = Vietnamese

AR = Arabic

FR = French

KO = Korean

RU = Russian

DE = German

OT = Other

All

LEXILE

Student's Lexile Measure

What does the Lexile® Student Measure mean?

Reading and Lectura

QUANTILE

Student's Quantile Measure

What does the Quantile® Student Measure mean?

Math

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Suffixes

These suffixes are added to the end of a skill (for single-month exports) or a period (for full-year exports).

Variable	Description	Format or Definition	Product
_SCORE	Overall/Subtest ability score	1-9999	All
_OVERFLOW	Istation Internal Use Only		All
_TIER \| _LEVEL	Overall or Subtest Test/Level	1-5	All
_ADMIN_DATE	Date of completion	m/d/yyyy	All
_PTILE	Overall or Subtest percentile rank	1-99	All

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Skills

Overall Assessment/Subtest

Variable	Description	Format or Definition	Product
Overall	Overall	Defined by suffix	Reading & Lectura
LC2	Listening Comprehension subtest	Defined by suffix	Reading
LK	Letter Knowledge subtest	Defined by suffix	Reading
LS †	Letter Sounds subtest	Defined by suffix	Reading
LR †	Letter Recognition subtest	Defined by suffix	Reading
PA	Phonemic Awareness subtest	Defined by suffix	Reading
AD	Alphabetic Decoding subtest	Defined by suffix	Reading
SPL	Spelling subtest	Defined by suffix	Reading
TF	Text Fluency subtest	Defined by suffix	Reading
CMP	Reading Comprehension subtest	Defined by suffix	Reading
VOC	Vocabulary subtest	Defined by suffix	Reading & Lectura
COMP	Reading Comprehension subtest	Defined by suffix	Lectura
COMP_AU	Listening Comprehension subtest	Defined by suffix	Lectura
FLU	Receptive Fluency subtest	Defined by suffix	Lectura
FON	Phonological and Phonetics subtest	Defined by suffix	Lectura
ESC	Writing Componet subtest	Defined by suffix	Lectura
MATH	Overall assessment	Defined by suffix	Math
NSE	Number Sense subtest	Defined by suffix	Math
MD	Measurement and Data Analysis subtest	Defined by suffix	Math
G	Geometry subtest	Defined by suffix	Math
CA	Computations and Algebraic Thinking subtest	Defined by suffix	Math
GM	Geometry and Measurement subtest	Defined by suffix	Math
NSY	Numer System subtest	Defined by suffix	Math
SDA	Statistics and Data Analysis subtest	Defined by suffix	Math
ORF	ISIP Oal Reading Fluency Assessment	Defined by suffix	Reading & Lectura

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Period

Month the assessment was completed

Variable	Description	Format or Definition	Product
August	Overall assessment for August	Defined by suffix	All
September	Overall assessment for September	Defined by suffix	All
October	Overall assessment for October	Defined by suffix	All
November	Overall assessment for November	Defined by suffix	All
December	Overall assessment for December	Defined by suffix	All
January	Overall assessment for January	Defined by suffix	All
February	Overall assessment for February	Defined by suffix	All
March	Overall assessment for March	Defined by suffix	All
April	Overall assessment for April	Defined by suffix	All
May	Overall assessment for May	Defined by suffix	All
June	Overall assessment for June	Defined by suffix	All
July	Overall assessment for July	Defined by suffix	All

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Alternative Export Format

This is only used for specific custom exports. This data is not pivoted, and each assessment and subtest will have its own line, with the skill column indicating the assessment/subtest type and the period column identifying the month.

*The demographic fields may be blank depending on the level of access of the person exporting data and the data imported into the Istation database

Variable

Description

Format or Definition

Product

STUDENT_ID

Student ID

Unique district-assigned ID

All

LNAME

Last Name

Student family name

All

FNAME

First Name

Student given name

All

DOMAIN

Enrolled campus

campus.district.state ‡

All

DOMAIN_AT_TAKE

Enrolled campus at the time of assessment

campus.district.state ‡

All

CAMPUS_ID

Campus ID

Unique district-assigned ID

All

PTILE

Percentile Rank

1-99

All

GRADE

Students Grade Level

1-12 | 0 = Kinder, -1 = PreK

All

ISIP_ACCOM *

ISIP Accommodations

Y|N

All

SKILL

Overall assessment or subtest

Overall = ISIP Reading or ISIP Lectura Overall Ability Score

LK = Letter Knowledge

LS = Letter Sounds ‡

LR = Letter Recognition ‡

LC2 = Listening Comprehension

PA = Phonemic Awareness

AD = Alphabetic Decoding

CMP = Reading Comprehension

FLU = Receptive Fluency

FON = Phonological and Phonetics

ESC = Writing Component

MATH = ISIP Math Overall Ability Score

NSE = Number Sense

MD = Measurement and Data Analysis

G = Geometry

CA = Computations and Algebraic Thinking

GM = Geometry and Measurement

NSY = Number System

SDA = Statistics and Data Analysis

ORF = ISIP Oral Reading Fluency

Reading and Lectura

PERIOD

Month of completion

0-11, starting with 0 as the first month of the school year

All

SCORE

Ability Score

1-9999

All

OVERFLOW

Istation Internal Use Only

All

TIER | LEVEL

Student's Overall or Subtest Skill/Level

1-5

All

UDATE

Date of completion

m/d/yyyy

All

BIRTHDATE

Student's Date of Birth

m/d/yyyy

All

LEXILE

Student's Lexile Measure

What does the Quantile® Student Measure mean?

Reading and Lectura

QUANTILE

Student's Quantile Measure

What does the Quantile® Student Measure mean?

Math

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The Assessment Data Dictionary included fields from student assessment data exports. Exports can display in one of two ways: pivoted and unpivoted. The fields available will vary depending on the type of export and assessment type.

Default Export Format

Suffixes

Skills

Period

Alternative Export Format

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