Reports: Profiles: for Wisconsin

Wisconsin's web-based data collection/reporting sites:
    Post High Outcomes Website (http://www.posthighsurvey.org)
    State SPP Indicators #13 & #14 (http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/spp-transition.html)
    WI Post HIgh OUtcomes Reports (http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/posthigh.html)
    Wisconsin SPP - All Indicators (http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/pdf/completespp.pdf)
    Post High Webcast (http://media2.wi.gov/dpi/viewer/Viewer.aspx?layoutPrefix=LayoutTopLeft&layoutOffset=Skins/Clean&width=800&height=631&peid=aa61c9d2-8fd3-4c60-9e9a-bb692870c629&pid=9b7b5b6d-11a3-46f5-a07b-082ab7dfa2d5&pvid=504&mode=Default&shouldResize=false&playerType=WM7)
    Post High Web Cast Power Point Handout (http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/ppt/spp-samp14.ppt)

• Data on youth who had IEPs was collected.
• Data on youth without disabilities was collected.
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1. Do students have unique identifiers?
Yes

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1a. What is used (e.g., SSN, student number)?


Individual student identification number

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2. What is the organizational structure of the state’s post-school outcomes data collection system?
other

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2a. please describe briefly


The State Department of Education granted a competitive discretionary grant to CESA 11 (Cooperataive Educational Services Agency) to develop and implement the Wisconsin Post High School Outcomes Survey.

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3. If the SEA contracts with another agency to collect data, what is the annual amount paid for that work?


$124,000 for website development, interviewing, data analysis, report writing, information dissemination, report distribution and project administration

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4. Are you collecting data from …
a sample of districts of school leavers on IEPs in your state?

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4c. How is the sample selected?
Each school district – every 5 years
All districts over 50,000 ADM every year
Districts in our monitoring cycle
Region (rural, urban)
Gender
Disability categories
Race/Ethnicity

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4d. How many districts/LEAs are included in your yearly data collection efforts?


88

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4e. How do you determine if the respondents are representative of all the school leavers?


The selected exiting district population for each of the sample years of 04/05 districts was compared to the 04/05 statewide population.

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4f. Briefly describe how your state attempts to increase the response rate (including drop outs).


Contact information is collected while the students are in their senior or last year of school or when they drop out; contact information is updated early in the following year; the students receive a letter from their former high school approximately 2 weeks before they receive the interview phone call.

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5. Which school leaver groups of students with IEPs are included? (NOTE THAT TO MAKE THIS SURVEY APPLICABLE TO A NATIONAL AUDIENCE WE HAVE GROUPED SCHOOL LEAVERS INTO MAJOR AND GENERAL CATEGORIES. IF YOUR STATE USES DIFFERENT LABELS OR GROUPS, PLEASE PLACE THOSE INTO THESE CATEGORIES THAT FIT CLOSEST TO YOUR SEA’S DEFINITIONS WHEN RESPONDING.)
those who graduated with regular diplomas
those who graduated with modified diplomas/other exit documents
those who aged-out
those who dropped-out

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6. What data are gathered from or about a student with an IEP before he or she leaves school?
Information for post-school contacts
Student demographics
Transition experiences in high school
Postsecondary IEP goals

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7. What data are gathered from or about a student after he or she leaves school?
Post high-school employment experiences
Postsecondary educational experiences
Housing or independent living experiences
Other

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7a. describe briefly


contacts with adult service agencies; accommodations/AT used in postsecondary ed.; IEP planning and outcomes; open-ended questions regarding difficulties they have experienced being employed or attending postsecondary ed. as they had planned

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8. How are post-school data gathered?
From a state-level database maintained by a non-educational agency (e.g., employment division)
Phone survey/interview former student
Phone survey/interview family member
Interview conducted by research organization hired by the state
Other

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8a. describe briefly


FOR INDICATOR 14: Phone interviews are conducted by a survey agency (St. Norbert College Survey Center) and entered into the statewide post high school website. Any district in the state can also use the outcomes website; some call their own exiters and some contract with St. Norbert.

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9. Are former students or their family members compensated for responding to the post school survey?
no

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10. When are these data collected?
12-month after the student left school

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11. How frequently were post-school data gathered for each student?
Three times

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12. How were data reported?
at the state level
at the district level
at the school level

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13. Are results reported by:
Gender
Ethnicity
Disability type
School leaver status
Other

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13a. please specify


added this year: within district; across survey years, diploma type

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14. Are results used to:
Focus program improvements
Identify in-service training
Report to state legislature
Other

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14a. please specify


results are shared with the state transitions summit, which has representation from major state agencies involved in providing transition or adult services

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15. List the stakeholder groups that participated in the development of your data collection system.


Department of Health and Human Services Parent Advocacy Agencies Department of Workforce Development Higher Education State Dept. of Ed. Adult Disabilities Support Agencies

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16. What challenges have you faced regarding sharing information with other state agencies?


Information is shared in report form, so no personally identifiable information is available; the parent groupd did ask if parents could have access to all the data rather than just the district reports (they cannot).

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17. Do you make any connections among Indicators 1, 2, 13, and 14?
yes

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17a. Please describe briefly.


The same website is used for data collection of both Indicators 13 & 14; the WDPI provides Indicators 1 & 2 data used by Indicator 14. The results are tied together through the website using the individual student identification numbers.

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18. Does your state use NPSO products or services to assist the state in training or working with LEAs to gather post-school outcome data?
yes

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18a. Which products/services do you use or plan to use?
Website (www.psocenter.org)
Community of Practice teleconferences or listserv
Sampling papers
Data Analysis, Reporting and Use (e.g. Response Calculator)
Data Collection
Other Tools & Products (e.g. PACER, NASDSE, Westat)
SPP/APR Checklists

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19. Any additional comments you would like to include in your state profile?


Districts receive an auto-fill summary report (used to fulfill Indicator 14 reporting requirements)and an auto-fill report template that districts can use when writing their district report (optional). This year a data analysis section was added for districts involved in data retreats, which helps them view, sort and compare local and statewide outcomes data. Two outcomes improvement planning forms are provided.