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GAO-06-194R 1 (2005-10-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasgi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 October 28, 2005 The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy Ranking Minority Member Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions United States Senate Subject: National Assessment of Educational Progress Exclusion Rates for Students with Disabilities Dear Senator Kennedy: In July 2005, we issued a report entitled No ChildLeft BehindAct: Most Students with Disabilities Participated in Statewide Assessments, but Inclusion Options Could Be Improved (GAO-05-618) in response to your request for information about inclusion of students with disabilities in the statewide assessments. We found that most states were including these students in the assessments. In addition, we reviewed the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) data to determine the extent to which students with disabilities were included in this assessment. Also called The Nation's Report Card, the NAEP has been used to track trends in student achievement over time or to compare student performance in a particular state with the national average. With the assistance of Department of Education (Education) officials, we interpreted that in 2002 five percent of students with disabilities were excluded from the NAEP reading assessment. Two months after the report's issuance, Education provided us with new information regarding how the NAEP data concerning the exclusion of students with disabilities should be interpreted. In reviewing this information, we determined that the exclusion rate for students with disabilities was much higher than previously reported, with about 40 percent of the students with disabilities who were part of the 2002 NAEP reading assessment sample excluded from the actual testing. In addition, the percentages of students with disabilities who were excluded from the testing varied by grade. For example: * 40 percent of students with disabilities were excluded from the grade 4 assessment, * 37 percent of students with disabilities were excluded from the grade 8 assessment, and * 43 percent of students with disabilities were excluded from the grade 12 assessment. GAO-06-194R NAEP Exclusion Rates for Students with Disabilities

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