Indicator 14 Data Collection Process South Dakota Secondary Transition State Planning Institute: Building for the Future Charlotte, North Carolina May 7, 2008 Session II Small States Presented by Greg Cooch Black Hills State University

Type of Data Collected-during year exiting Name/Address/DOB/Telephone/Cell/ Resident School Exit Status-grad w/diploma, drop out etc. Gender, race Links with Adult agencies recommended State-wide assessment ELL School Activities participation Employed last year of school Math classes taken/how many? Algebra Alternate Contact Persons/Friend

See handout

Website design for exiter information- School District information See SD Website handout-1 st 10 images p. 1-top of page 4

Type of Data Collected-during survey Exiters by race, gender, disabling condition Response rate and Response Rate Calculator Employment status Type of Work and name of employer Employers’ name Hrs worked per week Employment status by race, gender, disabling condition How long employed with current employer/only employer Wages per hour Reasons for not working Living with family Covered by family insurance/other insurance Requests for more information

Types of Data Collected-during survey Current Post-Secondary Enrollment Status Ever enrolled in any type PS School PS School attended/Type of School Reasons for not enrolling in PS Education Adult Service Agency Contact/Type PS only, Employment only, & PS and Employment only- Statewide and school with n > 10 Comments from survey

See Handout-Mail Survey

. Website Design-Phone Interviews-Apr/Sept

The Challenges Initially having all districts supply info. for all exiters Estimated we had approx. 92% of exiters information Districts supplying all the information Approx 95% of information included phone, address 3 districts accounted for most of the missing contact information—Googled for missing information Harvesting representative sample of minorities 15.5% of exiters were Native American-9.3% collected Ex. 11 NA exiters-2 with phones—18% vs. 50% Scheduling with BIT for website changes-busy, busy

What works well Information from Districts during exiting year improving More alternative phone #’s, addresses, s Phone solicitors are “seasoned” Phone solicitors are excited about this process Phone solicitors are all special education teachers Experience from process of one year’s data collection Coordination between Schools, SD SEP, TSLP, BHSU Transition in SD is a PRIORITY and has been for some time

Improvement Strategies Disseminating information-Presentations Governor’s Advisory Panel SD State Board of VR DDN presentation to multiple stakeholders/statewide State CEC conference Sped Summer Institutes-Transition (6 th year) (Transition Services Liaison Project-Joint Conference) SD DOE website report (summer/fall 2008) NPSO website State Profiles (summer/fall 2008)

Improvement Strategies Improving minority/dropout representation during survey School personnel Director of Indian Education Reservation Leaders Stakeholders Continuing to improve secured website Editing as needed “Glitch” fixing

Improvement Strategies Generating individual district reports Improving standardization of phone solicitors via training Further investigation of drop-out rates for NA Further investigation of employment rates for NA