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Study of Data Disaggregation Initiative

NCEE
Program: Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Award amount: $300,000
Awardee:
MDRC
Duration: 4 years 9 months (09/01/2020 - 06/01/2025)
Contract number: ED-IES-15-C-0050

Background

Because English learners (ELs) are a diverse group, looking at their academic achievement in the aggregate may hide important opportunities to identify challenges and target services to help particular subsets of them. In 2016, the Office of English Language Acquisition of the U.S. Department of Education awarded grants to three states — Minnesota, Hawaii, and Washington under the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Data Disaggregation Initiative. The grants are intended to support state education agency (SEAs) efforts to refine their data systems by further disaggregating the AAPI EL students into smaller subgroups; and then using the more detailed data to improve instructional programs, initiatives, or other services. This evaluation will provide information about grantees' activities and challenges to help inform future policy and practice related to data disaggregation.

Project Activities

Research question

  • What data were collected and how? How were they analyzed? What hindered and/or facilitated data collection or analysis?
  • How did states and districts use the disaggregated data to support improved instruction for ELs? What were the challenges to data usage? What activities did they report as being key?

Structured Abstract

Design

This descriptive study focuses on the experiences of the three states and their participating LEAs receiving the grants. Data were collected in Spring 2021 and included interviews of: i) the state grantees, ii) nine LEAs participating in the grant activities across those states, and iii) independent evaluators associated with each state grant and key partners such as community-based organizations, where applicable. The evaluation also draws on existing information from grantees' applications, annual performance data, and a review of information from the project-level evaluations, where available.

Key findings

Key findings will be available after the study report is published.

People and institutions involved

IES program contact(s)

Thomas Wei

Products and publications

The report is expected in 2025 and will be announced on http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/.

Questions about this project?

To answer additional questions about this project or provide feedback, please contact the program officer.

 

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English Learners (EL)Educators

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