1. The NCEO Data Viewer: Access to National Policy Information on Students with Disabilities
Laurene Christensen National Center for Educational Outcomes
NCEO Teleconference• September14, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2. Overview of this presentation
Background on the policy “side” of Data Viewer
What can Data Viewer tell us about participation?
What can Data Viewer tell us about accommodations?
Conclusions
Upcoming improvements to Data Viewer for policies
Plans for the teleconference on September 28

3. Data Viewer Background
Publicly available information on participation and accommodations collected every two years
Information is verified by states
Available in a print report (also on our website)
Data Viewer allows the user to make color coded maps and tabular reports

6. Participation Policy

7. Does the state have guidelines for a 3rd party administration?
For which accommodations that require another human to administer (e.g., persons reading the test aloud to the student, scribes, sign language interpreters, or persons paraphrasing the test directions) does the state have guidelines?

8. What guidance does the state provide for using accommodations that are not on an 'approved' list?

9. Accommodations Policy

11. Read Aloud Questions

12. Accommodations Trend Data: Calculator
Blue indicates where policies have changed in a state.

14. Other information available
State profiles plus documents used
Background information on the process used to collect the data
Glossary of accommodations terms
Data Viewer tutorial

15. Conclusions
Webinar on September 28 to go into more detail on using Data Viewer
Adding information for school year right now
Future iterations of Data Viewer will include searching by content area