Up until this year Assessment Interpretation values sent to MSIX were treated in two different ways depending on whether they were state assessments or not. For non-state assessments, MSIX expected a value of either Passed or Failed, but you could pass any other value if you prefixed it with "Other". For state assessments, MSIX expected one of the values Advanced, Basic, Below Basic, Failed, Far Below Basic, Passed, or Proficient; there was no provision for sending values other than these. This required all states to provide mappings from the values they used within the state to these MSIX-approved values. This was often difficult or easy to forget, but if a mapping wasn't provided, there was simply no way to get MSIX to display the value that the state actually uses.

This rule has changed this year so now we can prefix non-approved Assessment Interpretation values with "Other" so that they'll display in MSIX. We still support providing mappings in MIS2000 to MSIX-approved values, but now if we don't have a mapping, MIS2000 will automatically prefix "Other" and MSIX users will still get to see a value that at least made sense in the sending state.

Progress!