You will enter the following information for each sampled student classified as a student with disability.

• The IDEA category that best describes the student’s disability. The following categories are used by the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
• Specific learning disability
• Hearing impairment/deafness
• Visual impairment/blindness
• Speech or language impairment
• Intellectual disability
• Emotional disturbance
• Orthopedic impairment
• Traumatic brain injury
• Autism
• Development delay (age 9 or younger)
• Other health impairment (specify)

• The degree of each student's disability.
• Mild
• Moderate
• Profound/Severe

• Grade-level performance for the subject to be assessed.
• At or above grade level
• One year below grade level
• Two or more years below grade level
• Not receiving instruction in the designated subject (math or reading)

• How is the student assessed on the state assessment? If your state does not offer a state assessment, use classroom assessments as a reference point.
• With accommodations
• Without accommodations
• With an alternate assessment, etc.

• Testing accommodations that each student typically receives.

Information Needed to Include English Language Learners

You will enter the following information for each sampled student classified as an English Language Learner (Limited English Proficiency).

• Each student’s primary language.
• How long has each student received academic instruction in English?
• Does not receive instruction primarily in English
• Less than 1 year
• 1 to 2 years
• 2 to 3 years
• 3 years or more

• Grade-level performance for the subject to be assessed.
• At or above grade level
• One year below grade level
• Two or more years below grade level
• Not receiving instruction in the designated subject (math or reading)

• Each student’s English proficiency for listening, reading, speaking and writing.
• No proficiency
• Beginning
• Intermediate
• Advanced

• How long has each student been enrolled in U.S. schools?
• Less than 1 full academic year
• 1 full academic year or more

• Testing accommodations that each student typically receives.

Related Content: National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)