Exclusion Rates in Economics

NAEP has always endeavored to assess all students selected as a part of its sampling process, including students who are classified by their schools as students with disabilities (SD) and/or as English language learners (ELL). The decision to exclude any of these students is made by school personnel. School personnel are encouraged to use inclusion criteria provided by NAEP and may discuss their inclusion decisions with NAEP field staff. Some students may participate with testing accommodations. Read more about the NAEP inclusion policy.

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Percentage of all 12th-grade students identified, excluded and assessed in NAEP economics, by disability and English language learner status: 2006

Student characteristic	Percentage of all students
	Identified	Excluded	Assessed	Assessed without accommodation	Assessed with accommodation
SD and/or ELL	13	3	10	4	6
SD	10	2	7	2	5
ELL	4	#	3	2	1

Percentage of identified SD and/or ELL 12th-grade students excluded and assessed in NAEP economics: 2006

Student characteristic		Percentage of identified SD/ELL students
		Excluded	Assessed	Assessed without accommodation	Assessed with accommodation
SD and/or ELL		20	80	33	47
SD		25	75	20	55
ELL		10	90	66	24
# Rounds to zero.
NOTE: Students identified as both SD and ELL were counted only once under the combined SD and/or ELL category, but were counted separately under the SD and ELL categories. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2006 Economics Assessment.