Guides. Briefs. Toolkits. Quick reference information. IDC and its partners created these data quality resources to help states better prepare to address their existing or emerging IDEA data.
This is a spreadsheet application and accompanying user’s guide that helps states analyze their data, make determinations of significant disproportionality, and support local education agencies (LEAs) in their analysis of data for significant disproportionality at the school-level
This resource defines overrepresentation and three related terms: over-identification, under-identification, and underrepresentation.
This resource outlines methods for states to identify LEAs with significant discrepancies in out-of-school suspensions and expulsions over 10 days for children with disabilities, including by race or ethnicity.
Our SPP/APR Data Display Toolkit helps SEA staff communicate complex data to stakeholders by creating user-friendly data visualizations, based on SPP/APR data the user enters. Many of the visualizations are dynamic and automatically update based on the data the user enters into the tool. States can easily transfer the visualizations to other programs to meet their reporting needs based on the audience, message, and purpose of the desired report or presentation they are preparing.
This is a spreadsheet application and accompanying user’s guide that aids states in their assessment of racial/ethnic disproportionality. It calculates several disproportionality measures, including risk, risk ratio, weighted risk ratio, alternate risk ratio, risk difference, composition, difference in composition, relative difference in composition, the E-formula, and variations of several of these measures for total disciplinary removals.
States can use the Organizer Template for Part B SPP/APR Target Setting to briefly document information for consideration when setting new SPP/APR targets for all indicators in the FFYs 2020-25 SPP/APR collection.