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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 identified, excluded, and assessed in NAEP writing, as a percentage of all students, by state: 1998
State/jurisdiction Identified Excluded Assessed Assessed
without
accom-
modations
Assessed
with
accom-
modations
   Nation (public) 11 4 8 5 3
Alabama 12 6 6 5 1
Arizona 9 3 6 4 2
Arkansas 12 5 7 5 1
California  7 3 5 3 2
Colorado 9 3 6 4 2
Connecticut 14 6 8 5 3
Delaware 13 3 10 7 3
Florida 12 4 9 7 2
Georgia 10 4 6 4 2
Hawaii 10 3 7 5 2
Idaho
Illinois  10 3 6 4 2
Indiana
Iowa 
Kansas 
Kentucky 9 2 7 2 4
Louisiana 13 5 8 3 5
Maine 13 5 8 5 3
Maryland 12 2 10 4 7
Massachusetts 15 3 12 6 5
Michigan
Minnesota  11 2 8 6 2
Mississippi 9 5 5 4 1
Missouri 12 2 10 6 4
Montana  11 2 8 6 2
Nebraska
Nevada 11 4 7 4 2
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico 15 4 11 7 3
New York  9 2 8 2 6
North Carolina 12 3 9 3 6
North Dakota 
Ohio
Oklahoma 12 8 4 3 1
Oregon 12 2 10 7 3
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island 14 3 10 8 2
South Carolina 12 5 7 5 2
Tennessee  12 4 8 7 1
Texas 14 5 9 7 2
Utah 8 3 5 4 1
Vermont
Virginia 12 4 9 5 3
Washington  10 2 7 5 2
West Virginia 14 5 9 5 3
Wisconsin  10 4 6 4 3
Wyoming 9 2 7 5 2
Other jurisdictions          
   District of Columbia 10 5 5 4 1
   DoDEA1 6 1 5 3 2
— 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). Before 2005, DoDEA overseas and domestic schools were separate jurisdictions in NAEP. Pre-2005 data presented here were recalculated for comparability.
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), 1998 Writing Assessment.

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