How to Access and Use Federal Data on ELL Students

1. How to Access and Use
Federal Data on ELL
Students
Judith Wilde
Keira Ballantyne
NCELA is operated under contract ED-04-CO-0094/0002 from the US Department of Education to The George
Washington University. Our mission is to provide technical assistance information to state education agencies,
local education agencies, and others regarding the education of English language learners.

2. National Clearinghouse for English
Language Acquisition
 Funded by the U.S. Department of
Education’s Office of English Language
Acquisition
 Visit our website! www.ncela.gwu.edu
 All presentation materials will be available at
www.ncela.gwu.edu/meetings, or click on
“Meetings & Conferences” on our home page
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3. What kind of data?
 Federal funding dollars
 Counts of students and subgroups of
students
 English language and content area
proficiency
 Teacher capacity
 State standards and assessments for
ELLs
and much more ...
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4. Who uses these data, and why?
 Policymakers: to assess the needs of
ELLs in their state
 Researchers: to frame & justify research
on ELL education
 Advocates: to educate policymakers &
other stakeholders
 ANYONE applying for grants or funding
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5. How can the data be used?
 To provide a snapshot of ELL education
in a state
 To look at differences and similarities
across states
 CAUTION: Not all data are directly
comparable across states. Know your
source!
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6. Where do the data come from?
1. U.S. Department of Education
• Consolidated State Performance Reports
2. Institute of Education Sciences
• National Assessment of Educational
Progress
3. NCELA
• Title III State Information System
...among other sources
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7. Data from www.ed.gov
 Federal $$$: Budget tables for Title III
 Consolidated State Performance
Reports (CSPRs)
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8. CSPR
“The required annual reporting tool for
each State, the District of Columbia,
and Puerto Rico as authorized under
Section 9303 of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as
amended by the No Child Left Behind
Act of 2001 (NCLB).”
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9. CSPR: What’s available?
 CSPR forms as completed by the states
are available online
 The Biennial Report to Congress on the
Title III State Formula Grant Program
contains analyses of data from CSPRs
 2004-06
 2002-04
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10. CSPR for ELLs: What’s in it?
 ELL data
 Numbers designated & served
 Content area & ELP performance
 Formerly ELL (monitored students)
data
 Content area performance
 Numbers
 Immigrant student data
 Numbers
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11. CSPR for ELLs: Numbers
 How many students have states
designated as LEP (not collected for
2006-07)?
 How many were served by Title III?
 How many immigrant students have
states identified?
 How many were served by Title III?
 Note: Immigrant ≠ ELL
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12. CSPR for ELLs: Numbers
6,000,000 # ELLs
designated
5,000,000 # ELLs served
4,000,000
# Immigrant
students
3,000,000
# Immigrant
2,000,000 students
served
1,000,000
0
20 20 20 20 20 20
02 03 04 05 06 07
–0 –0 –0 –0 –0 –0
3 4 5 6 7 8
Note: Number of students identified was not collected for 2006-07
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13. CSPR for ELLs:
12 Native Languages 2007-08
Spanish 3,757,098 Haitian Creole 34,958
Vietnamese 85,414 Korean 16,266
Hmong 51,536 Somali 16,064
Arabic 40,774 Russian 12,896
Chinese
39,566 Portuguese 11,573
languages
Philippine
35,436 Navajo 9,877
languages
Note: “Arabic” includes varieties identified as Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Lebanese Arabic,
and Sudanese Arabic. “Chinese languages” includes Mandarin, Cantonese, and “Chinese.”
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14. CSPR for ELLs: ELP
 AMAO 1: Number and percentage of students
who are “making progress” in English
language proficiency
 AMAO 2: Number and percentage of students
who are attaining English language
proficiency
AMAO: Annual Measurable Achievement Objective
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15. CSPR for ELLs:
Content area performance
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16. CSPR for ELLs: Program types
 What type(s) of instructional
program(s) does the state use?
 For programs using 2 languages, which
other language(s) are used?
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17. CSPR for ELLs: Program types
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18. CSPR for ELLs: Teachers & PD
 255,049 certified or licensed teachers
are employed in Title III programs
 States anticipate needing an additional
67,140 teachers over the next 5 years
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19. CSPR for ELLs: Teachers & PD
 States also report most common topics
and participants in PD
 The most common topic for PD is
teaching strategies for LEP students
 The most common participants in PD
educating teachers about LEP students
are content area classroom teachers
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20. National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP)
 NAEP, “the Nation’s Report Card”
 Began 1964, first assessments 1969
 Student subgroups in grades 4, 8, 12
 Assessments are administered uniformly
using the same sets of test booklets
across the nation
 Provides a common metric for looking at
progress across years
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21. “Main” NAEP
 Assesses public and private school students
in math, reading, science, writing, the arts,
civics, econ, geog, and US history at national
level
 Math, rdg, science, and writing also reported at state
level, usually grades 4 & 8, in public schools only
 Essentially the same from year to year, with
only carefully documented changes –
primarily to match instructional practice
 Latest advances in assessment technology
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22. Long Term Trend Assessment
 Assesses math and reading at national
level only
 Every 4 years
 LTTA began 1999
 Assessments do not change to allow
for trend analysis but changes in 2004
make comparisons to previous tests difficult
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23. NAEP
 NAEP information available from
http://www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
 NAEP data available from
http://www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/na
epdata/
 NAEP LTTA information available from
http://www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ltt/
 NAEP LTTA data available from
http://www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ltt
data/
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24. NAEP LTTA: Highest math taken,
17-year-olds, 2008
Gen math or prealg
nonELL 3 7 16 52 20 1
Algebra
Geometry
Algebra 2
ELL 6 8 23 52 8 3 Calculus
Other
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
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25. LTTA Math: ELL, former ELL,
nonELL – 2008 only
500
450
400
M ath s c ale s c ores
350
298 307
276 283 279
300 252 ELL
247 245
250 224 former ELL
200 nonELL
150
100
50
0
age 9 age 13 age 17
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26. LTTA Math: ELL & nonELL,
2004 and 2008
500
450
400
Math scale scores
350 306 307
280 283 280 279 ELL 2004
300
241 245 252 ELL 2008
250 222 224 223
nonELL 2004
200
nonELL 2008
150
100
50
0
age 9 age 13 age 17
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27. Title III State Information System
(T3SIS)
 Available at www.ncela.gwu.edu/t3sis
 Title III contact for your state
 LEP Demographics
 Standards
 Assessments
 Technical Assistance Network
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28. Questions?
www.ncela.gwu.edu
Judith Wilde, Exec Dir: jwilde@gwu.edu
Keira Ballantyne, Asst Dir-PD:
keira@gwu.edu
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