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Technical Assistance for APR Part B Indicator 3 – Assessment
Overview
States annually provide data to the U.S. Department of
Education about the participation and performance of
students with disabilities in state assessments. They also
provide data on progress toward meeting the No Child Left
Behind measure of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). These
assessment data comprise Part B Indicator 3 of the Annual
Performance Reports (APRs) that states submit to the Office
of Special Education Programs to document their progress
toward targets identified in their State Performance Plans (SPPs).
Indicator 3 is one of 20 indicators that are used to
document the progress of school-age students with
disabilities. Other indicators include, for example,
disproportionality, dropout rate, and graduation rate.Although states report their AYP and assessment data
publicly, they must meet specific expectations for how the
data are submitted as part of their SPPs and APRs. States
report on the percent of districts meeting the state’s AYP
objectives for students with disabilities (for those
districts that conform to state criteria about the
population of students with disabilities in a given grade –
called “minimum n”). They also report on the participation
of students with disabilities in various assessment options:
regular assessment without accommodations, regular
assessment with accommodations, alternate assessment based
on grade-level achievement standards, alternate assessment
based on modified academic achievement standards, and
alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement
standards. They also must report on the percentage of
students scoring as proficient on the various assessments.
Because of the important role assessment data plays in state
decision making regarding interventions to improve the
participation and performance of students with disabilities
on state assessments, there is a need for technical assistance for APR Indicator 3 of Part B. NCEO
provides such technical assistance, which includes:
- Improving awareness through provision of summary reports
of APR Part B Indicator 3 data
- Addressing connection points between APR Part B
Indicator 3 and Table 6 of states’ 618 submissions
- Providing tools to improve the quality of APR Part B
Indicator 3 data
- Other information and activities in response to
identified needs
NCEO Data Viewer. Search an interactive site to build
individualized summary reports using APR Part B Indicator 3
data.
2009 OSEP Instructions for APR. Once
released, OSEP instructions to state personnel charged with
completing the 2009 Annual Performance Report (for 2007-08
school year data) for their state will be posted here.
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