NCLB Reporting and Public Dissemination 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Under NCLB, which of the following groups of students were LEAs required to include in their public reporting of assessment participation rates?
- Only students who scored below proficient
- All enrolled students, including those with disabilities and English language learners (Correct answer)
- Only students who had been enrolled for a full academic year
- Only students in grades 3 through 8
Correct answer: All enrolled students, including those with disabilities and English language learners
NCLB's 95% participation rate requirement applied to all enrolled students, including those with IEPs and ELL students, to prevent exclusion of low-performers.
Question 2: NCLB required supplemental educational services (SES) to be offered to students in schools that missed AYP for how many consecutive years?
- Two consecutive years
- Three consecutive years (Correct answer)
- Four consecutive years
- One year
Correct answer: Three consecutive years
NCLB required SES — free tutoring from approved providers — to be offered starting in the third year a Title I school failed to make AYP.
Question 3: What did NCLB require states to report regarding their progress toward the goal of 100% student proficiency by 2014?
- Only the number of schools that had already achieved 100% proficiency
- Annual measurable objectives showing incremental progress toward the 2014 goal (Correct answer)
- A single pass/fail determination for the entire state
- A projection model estimating the year proficiency would actually be reached
Correct answer: Annual measurable objectives showing incremental progress toward the 2014 goal
NCLB required states to establish and publicly report Annual Measurable Objectives (AMOs) showing step-by-step progress toward the 2014 proficiency target.
Question 4: Under NCLB, which of the following best describes what must happen if a state changes its assessment system?
- The state must receive congressional approval before administering any new test
- The state must notify the U.S. Department of Education and ensure the new assessment still meets NCLB requirements (Correct answer)
- The state must revert to NAEP as its primary accountability measure during the transition
- The state must pause AYP determinations for two years while implementing the new system
Correct answer: The state must notify the U.S. Department of Education and ensure the new assessment still meets NCLB requirements
States were required to notify and obtain approval from the U.S. Department of Education when changing assessments to confirm alignment with NCLB's technical and content requirements.
Question 5: NCLB allowed parents to request information about the professional background of their child's teacher. Which of the following could a parent NOT compel the school to disclose under this provision?
- Whether the teacher is teaching under an emergency or provisional credential
- The teacher's home address and personal contact information (Correct answer)
- Whether the teacher is certified in the subject area they are teaching
- The qualifications of paraprofessionals assisting in the classroom
Correct answer: The teacher's home address and personal contact information
NCLB's parent notification rights covered professional credentials, certification status, and paraprofessional qualifications, but not teachers' personal contact details.
Question 6: Under NCLB, districts were required to publicly report data on which aspect of student discipline?
- The names of students who received out-of-school suspensions
- The number of violent and drug-related offenses occurring in each school (Correct answer)
- The disciplinary policies each principal applied to repeat offenders
- The percentage of students referred to law enforcement from each school
Correct answer: The number of violent and drug-related offenses occurring in each school
NCLB required LEAs to report the number of violent criminal offenses and drug-related incidents at each school as part of school safety transparency.
Question 7: NCLB specified that state report cards must be disseminated to the public and the media. Why was media included as a required recipient?
- To ensure advertising revenue for school newsletters
- To maximize public awareness and accountability by leveraging press distribution (Correct answer)
- To allow television stations to broadcast test questions publicly
- To comply with FCC regulations governing educational broadcasting
Correct answer: To maximize public awareness and accountability by leveraging press distribution
Including the media as a required recipient reflected NCLB's intent to maximize public knowledge of school performance through press coverage, not just direct government distribution.
NCLB Reporting and Public Dissemination 5
Under NCLB, which of the following groups of students were LEAs required to include in their public reporting of assessment participation rates?