GED Cohort

There is great, detailed info about this in the LACES 2012.2.1 NRS Cohorts Release Notes in the 'Obtained a GED or Secondary School Diploma Cohort' section. 

 

In short, the GED cohort automatically populates once an NRS reportable student has left the program if he has taken all 5 GED tests.  this can be indicated two possible ways in LACES:

 

1.  Scores are entered for all 5 GED tests in the student's Assessment folder (the scores do not have to be passing scores for the student to be included in the cohort)

2.  A Diploma Record is entered with the Type 'GED' in the Student's Diploma Info folder.  Agencies who do not enter GED scores in LACES can enter the GED info here.  If there is not a 'Date Earned' entered in the Diploma info folder, the student will be included in the outcome but does not count as met it.  Once a date earned is entered, the student will count as having met the outcome.