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From: Kubzdela, Kashka
[Kashka.Kubzdela@ed.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:35
PM
To: Martinez, Rochelle W.
Cc: Axt,
Kathy
Subject: FW: FRSS passback
Shelly,
below please find the answers to the FRSS
passback.
As a side note, CCD flags alternative schools, but has
no way of knowing whether they are administered by a district or
not.
Let me know if anything else is needed for the FRSS
clearance.
Thanks,
Kashka
Responses by next
Thursday?
- OSDFS paid for the
first survey. Will they be paying for the
extension?
NCES
contributed funds for the initial survey and will be paying for the
additional data collection costs.
- The follow up survey basically
asks two questions -- First, do you have any alternative schools run by
other providers and two, who are these other providers. How did NCES
come up with the response options for the latter
question?
Response options for this item were developed based
on several sources. One source
was responses written on the returned paper questionnaire for the initial
(fall 2008) survey and interviewer call records for nonresponse followup and
data clarification. A second
source was informal telephone discussions during development of the followup
survey with respondents who indicated during the initial survey that their
district used alternative schools or programs administered by an entity
other than their district. A third source was responses to the pretest of
the followup survey.
- Was OSDFS consulted
to see if any additional information would be useful given the plan to
conduct another full round of data collection?
They were
informed on the rationale for the follow-up data collection.
This included what was learned during the initial data collection
and why we think the data coming from the few follow-up
questions will provide a more rounded overview
of alternative schools and programs at the district-level (but keeping
the primary focus on providing information about alternative schools and
programs within the district).
- What is NCESs best estimate of
the prevalence of districts with these alternative
arrangements?
At this time, the prevalence of districts with
alternative schools and programs that were administered by an entity other
than their district in school year 2007-08 is unknown. While the weighted frequencies from
the initial survey indicate that 41 percent of districts have district-run
alternative schools or programs and 59 percent of the districts do not have
district-run alternative schools or programs, these estimates do not provide
an indication of the prevalence of alternative schools and programs that
were administered by an entity other than their district. This is because alternative schools
and programs administered by an entity other than the district can be in
place of or in addition to alternative schools and programs administered by
the district. The only way to obtain the information about the extent
to which districts use alternative schools and programs run by entities
other than the district is to conduct the brief followup survey.
- Does NCES believe
that better developmental work on the front end would have precluded the
need for this additional round of data collection? How can this type
of situation be avoided in the
future?
Yes, we do.
We are currently developing a FRSS survey of dropout prevention
programs. In lieu of this most recent experience on the
alternative schools survey, we are looking into the range of options
districts use to provide services to their students deemed at-risk of
dropping out. Moving forward we will pursue a similar strategy of looking
into a wider range of options being used for service delivery, especially on
our district-level surveys.
Shelly Wilkie
Martinez
Office of Statistical
and Science Policy
Office of Management and
Budget
(202)
395-3147
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