Version 3.1 has been modified to accommodate for Electronic Testing and Expedited Re-Takes, which are newly implemented aspects of End-of-Course testing.  Typically, this data comes from the various scoring sources (Pearson or Harcourt-Brace) within its own import file.  The data is separate from the "normal" End-of-Course pupil data files from Harcourt-Brace.  If you imported either of these types of files with SOL Tracker prior to version 3.1, your data will be either inaccurate or incomplete due to the fact that it was not designed to read those fields.  Version 3.1 can read this data and handles the importation of these files much like the normal pupil files, via the Import Wizard.  However, the internal processes for handling the data are different (for an explanation of this, please refer to this FAQ question).  Because electronic testing can overlap manual testing, if you do not delete this data, either when prompted by the Data File update process or later via the Test Mass Delete utility, your data will be inaccurate and jumbled up together. 

To be clear, you need to delete your End-of-Course Spring 2002 data (except for English Writing) if you have imported either the electronic testing data or the expedited re-takes data.  If you have only imported the End-of-Course pupil data, then there is no need to delete it.  This also applies to any other testing period in which you have imported electronic testing or expedited re-takes data (maybe Summer 2002 or Fall 2001?).  The update process will not automatically delete that data, but if that applies to you, then you need to delete it manually and then re-import with v3.1.  

Another note: If you had electronic testing or expedited re-takes scored by Harcourt-Brace, and you have already imported (with a version of SOL Tracker prior to 3.1) the End-of-Course pupil Spring 2002 data along with the End-of-Course SPBQ data, but have not yet imported the electronic testing or expedited re-takes data, then you will need to delete the SPBQ data only.   After this, you can import the electronic testing and/or expedited re-takes data with v3.1, then re-import SPBQ data.  The reason why you might need to delete the SPBQ data is because Harcourt-Brace combines all testing SPBQ into the same file, so your SPBQ file will contain the records for normal pupil, electronic testing, and expedited re-takes.  If you had not already imported your electronic testing or expedited re-takes when SPBQ was imported, all of those corresponding SPBQ records for electronic testing (or expedited re-takes) would be incorrectly attached to the wrong tests.  If you had your electronic testing scored through Pearson and had no expedited re-takes, then your SPBQ data will only reflect the normal manual testing of students and nothing needs to be deleted.

If you need to delete data yourself, you can follow these steps:

1. Make sure you do a backup of your Data File prior to modifying it.
2. Go to Utilities and click on Data Utilities.  Select the Tests Mass Delete tab.
3. Select EOC for Disk Type, and specify SPRING for the Season and 2002 for the Year.
4. If you only want to delete SPBQ, check the box to do just that.  Otherwise, it will delete both tests and SPBQ data according to your criteria specified.
5. Click on the button to start the deletion, and confirm when prompted.  You may want to go to the Review Tests screen to spot check your data to make sure you did it properly.  If not, restore your backup try again.

All of this can get confusing, so the following chart may help you.  If you are still unsure of what to do, please contact Technical Support.