{"id":1066,"date":"2019-01-29T15:33:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T21:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/?page_id=1066"},"modified":"2019-01-31T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T17:07:49","slug":"examining-district-alternate-participation-rates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/february-2019\/examining-district-alternate-participation-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining District Alternate Assessment Participation Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nceo.umn.edu\/docs\/OnlinePubs\/NCEO1percentBrief.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1070 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NCEO1percentBrief-cover-for-web-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of &quot;Guidance on Examining District Alternate Assessment Rates&quot;\" width=\"150\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NCEO1percentBrief-cover-for-web-1.jpg 638w, https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NCEO1percentBrief-cover-for-web-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NCEO1percentBrief-cover-for-web-1-624x807.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) and the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (NCIEA) jointly published a Brief titled <a href=\"https:\/\/nceo.umn.edu\/docs\/OnlinePubs\/NCEO1percentBrief.pdf\">Guidance on Examining District Alternate Assessment Participation Rates<\/a>. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) places a 1% cap on the participation of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities in the alternate assessment aligned with alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS). This assessment is intended for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. Because many states report more than 1% of their student population taking an AA-AAAS, there is a need to identify effective and technically defensible practices for monitoring participation rates for alternate assessments.<\/p>\n<p>Question addressed by this Brief include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are some approaches for dealing with the uncertainty associated with small student populations (i.e., n-sizes)?<\/li>\n<li>What are some appropriate analytical approaches for monitoring AA-AAS participation rates?<\/li>\n<li>What are the strengths and limitations of various methods?<\/li>\n<li>What criteria could be established for defining \u201cexpected\u201d versus \u201cexceptional\u201d fluctuations in district participation rates?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) and the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (NCIEA) jointly published a Brief titled Guidance on Examining District Alternate Assessment Participation Rates. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) places a 1% cap on the participation of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities in the alternate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1064,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1066","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1066\/revisions\/1109"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}