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Exclusion rates in writing by state

NAEP has always endeavored to assess all students selected as a part of its sampling process, including students who are classified by their schools as students with disabilities (SD) and/or as English language learners (ELL). The decision to exclude any of these students is made by school personnel. School personnel are encouraged to use inclusion criteria provided by NAEP and may discuss their inclusion decisions with NAEP field staff. Some students may participate with testing accommodations. Read more about the NAEP inclusion policy.

Within any assessment year, exclusion and accommodation rates may vary across jurisdictions. In addition, exclusion and accommodation rates may increase or decrease between assessment administrations, making it difficult to interpret comparisons over time within jurisdictions. Since students with disabilities and English language learners tend to score below average on assessments, exclusion of students from these groups may result in a higher average score than if those students had taken the assessment. Providing appropriate testing accommodations (e.g., providing extended time for some SD or ELL students to take the assessment), on the other hand, removes barriers that would otherwise prevent them from demonstrating their knowledge and skills. Read more about the relation of exclusion and accommodation rates to results.

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Eighth-grade public school students with disabilities and/or English language learners identified, excluded, and assessed in NAEP writing, as a percentage of all students, by state: 2007
State/jurisdiction Identified Excluded Assessed Assessed
without
accom-
modations
Assessed
with
accom-
modations
   Nation (public) 18 3 15 6 9
Alabama 14 2 12 8 3
Arizona 19 3 16 10 6
Arkansas 16 2 14 4 10
California  27 2 25 20 5
Colorado 15 3 12 4 8
Connecticut 14 2 13 3 9
Delaware 16 5 11 3 8
Florida 19 3 17 2 15
Georgia 13 2 11 3 8
Hawaii 19 1 18 8 11
Idaho 14 2 12 6 6
Illinois  17 3 14 3 11
Indiana 16 3 13 3 10
Iowa  16 2 15 3 12
Kansas  17 4 13 4 9
Kentucky 15 6 9 2 6
Louisiana 14 2 12 1 10
Maine 20 4 16 4 12
Maryland
Massachusetts 22 6 16 3 13
Michigan 16 4 12 3 9
Minnesota  17 2 15 6 9
Mississippi 10 2 9 1 7
Missouri 15 2 12 3 9
Montana  16 2 14 4 10
Nebraska
Nevada 21 3 18 11 7
New Hampshire 20 3 17 5 12
New Jersey 18 3 15 2 13
New Mexico 27 5 23 13 9
New York 19 3 17 1 16
North Carolina 18 2 16 3 13
North Dakota  16 5 10 3 7
Ohio 15 4 11 2 9
Oklahoma 19 4 15 6 9
Oregon
Pennsylvania 18 3 15 4 11
Rhode Island 21 3 19 5 13
South Carolina 15 3 12 5 8
Tennessee  13 3 10 5 5
Texas 18 7 12 8 4
Utah 19 3 16 9 7
Vermont 22 4 18 5 13
Virginia 18 6 12 4 8
Washington  16 4 12 5 7
West Virginia 16 1 15 5 9
Wisconsin  18 4 14 3 11
Wyoming 16 3 13 5 8
Other jurisdictions          
   District of Columbia
   DoDEA1 11 2 9 3 6
— Not available. The jurisdiction did not participate or did not meet the minimum participation guidelines for reporting.
1 Department of Defense Education Activity (overseas and domestic schools).
NOTE: Alaska and South Dakota did not participate in the NAEP writing assessments. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007 Writing Assessment.

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