SPP/APR Resources at a Glance
The following is a list of IDC resources that states can use to support their understanding and actions related to the FFY 2020–2025 Part B SPP/APR. States can use the resources to improve communication about the FFY 2020–2025 SPP/APR requirements and encourage increased engagement among state staff and stakeholders related to SPP/APR planning and implementation.
Building Your SPP/APR Stakeholder Engagement Plan: 10 Essential Questions
This interactive resource guides states through 10 key questions they should ask themselves as they build their stakeholder engagement plans. Each question offers detailed options to consider that will assist states in preparing to describe their engagement activities in their SPPs/APRs.
Building Your SPP/APR Stakeholder Engagement Plan: 10 Essential Questions
Checklist to Identify and Address SSIP Data Quality Issues
In State Performance Report/Annual Performance Plan (SPP/APR) reports, states are required to identify data quality issues that may have arisen during their Indicator 17 State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP) work. Using this checklist can help state staff who are responsible for the SSIP apply the principles of high-quality data to identify any data quality issues that the state should report.
FFY 2020–25 SPP/APR Stakeholder Requirements
This excerpt from OSEP’s Part B SPP/APR General Instructions outlines stakeholder requirements for the FFY 2020–2025 SPP/APR in a simple one-page format. States can use this excerpt to inform state staff and other SPP/APR planning partners about stakeholder involvement that states must include in their FFY 2020–2025 Part B SPP/APR introduction.
Graduation Rate (Indicator 1) and Dropout Rate (Indicator 2) Calculator
This tool from IDC and NTACT calculates graduation and dropout rates using the 618 Exiting data, as OSEP will require in coming years for reporting in states’ SPP/APRs. The tool can accumulate and graph multiple years of data, allowing users to observe trends in the rates over time and share the information easily with stakeholders.
Graduation Rate (Indicator 1) and Dropout Rate (Indicator 2) Calculator
IDC Monthly Webinar: SPP/APR Compliance Indicators, August 18, 2022
Have questions about how to respond to the requirements for SPP/APR compliance indicators? Do you lie awake at night wondering how much specificity is enough specificity when you respond to those requirements? And what about addressing compliance or the correction and verification of non-compliance findings in your state’s SPP/APR? In this IDC webinar event, host Nancy Johnson covers information about these all-important requirements, in addition to some real-life stories and strategies from states about how they get it all done.
IDC Monthly Webinar: Setting Baselines and Targets in a World of Questionable Data Quality, March 25, 2021
During this webinar, IDC staff discussed challenges with setting baselines and targets for the FFY 2020–2025 SPP/APR, given the data quality concerns stemming from COVID-19. IDC presenters shared considerations for determining baselines and strategies states may use to set targets. Presenters from two states shared their plans for setting baselines and targets and engaging their stakeholders in the process.
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Webinar RecordingIDC Monthly Webinar: Setting Baselines and Targets in a World of Questionable Data Quality, March 25, 2021
During this webinar, IDC staff discussed challenges with setting baselines and targets for the FFY 2020–2025 SPP/APR, given the data quality concerns stemming from COVID-19. IDC presenters shared considerations for determining baselines and strategies states may use to set targets. Presenters from two states shared their plans for setting baselines and targets and engaging their stakeholders in the process.
Parent Involvement Data: How to Measure and Improve Representativeness for Indicator B8
This interactive resource provides states with an overview of how to gather representative parent involvement data for Part B SPP/APR Indicator 8. The resource defines key concepts such as representativeness, sampling, nonresponse bias, response rates, and weighting. It also offers information on how to improve the quality of parent involvement data, including strategies that can help states collect representative data and evaluate and improve the representativeness of their data before, during, and after data collection.
Parent Involvement Data: How to Measure and Improve Representativeness for Indicator B8
Part B Indicator Data Display Wizard
This tool is designed to create data visualizations, in the form of charts, based on State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR) data the user enters. States can easily transfer the visualizations to other programs to meet their reporting needs based on the audience, message, and purpose of the desired report or presentation they are preparing.
SPP/APR Indicator Card
The SPP/APR indicators measure child and family outcomes as well as compliance with the requirements of IDEA. This quick-reference resource from IDC includes a list and brief definition of all the Part B FFY 2020–2025 SPP/APR indicators (including the new Indicator 18!), as well as a list of file specifications associated with each of the seven IDEA 618 data collections, all in one convenient package. Print one out here or contact your IDC State Liaison for a laminated version you can carry along wherever you go.
SPP/APR Indicator Sampling Plan Checklist
States are allowed to use sampling for collecting data for select Part B State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report indicators. Sampling can provide an effective means for targeting resources for data collection and improving data quality. However, there are important requirements that states must consider when designing and implementing their sampling plans. States can use this interactive self-assessment tool to determine whether their state’s sampling plan addresses Office of Special Education Programs sampling requirements for best practice and to identify action steps to improve their sampling procedures.
Templates for Part B SPP/APR Stakeholder Involvement and Target Setting
Two templates comprise this resource. States can use the Organizer Template for Part B SPP/APR Target Setting to briefly document information for consideration when setting new SPP/APR targets. States can supplement this overview template with the Indicator Organizer for Part B SPP/APR Stakeholder Involvement and Target Setting, which they can use to capture more detailed information on stakeholder involvement in setting targets for individual SPP/APR indicators.
Templates for Part B SPP/APR Stakeholder Involvement and Target Setting