Making Progress on Measuring Progress

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Making Progress on Measuring Progress

• Barbara Jackson, NE
• Beppie Shapiro, HI
• Lynne Kahn and Kathy Hebbeler, ECO

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Format of Presentation

• Meet each state
• Overview of the 5 Decision areas to be discussed
• For each decision area
• Description of each states plans
• Questions and comments from participants

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About Nebraska

• Birth Mandate State
• Co-Leads for Part C Health and Human Services
  Education
• Outcome data process will be the same across the
  birth through 5 age group

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Nebraska (continued)

• 460 School Districts
• Number of children birth to three 1303
• Number of children three and four 2811
• Number of children three through 5 4707

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Decision Areas

• How will the state determine childrens status on
  each of the outcomes?
• What reporting categories has the state chosen to
  use?
• How often will data be collected? and reported
  to the state?
• How will data get from local programs to the
  state?
• What are each states plans for rolling out child
  outcome measurement?

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Part C Assessment in Hawaii

• 2004 State Assessment Task Force recommends
  tools for CDE
• Hawaii Developmental Charts (HELP)
• Michigan EIDP
• Battelle
• 2005 All programs serving children with
  developmental delays/biological risk factors
  trained to use HDC

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Assessment of babies eligible due to
environmental risk

• Ages and Stages
• Forms for specific age levels
• Scores indicate only Typical, Monitor,
  Refer
• Referred for CDE and services by program serving
  DD
• Care coordination may remain with original program

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What Counts Measuring the Benefits of Early
Intervention in Hawaii

• 1. Outcomes become Hawaii
• EI Benefits or Goals
• 2. How can we assign a score to each child on
  each EI Goal?

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Nebraskas Assessment Process

• Which assessments?
• AEPS
• Creative Curriculum
• High Scope COR for Infants/ Toddlers
  Preschoolers

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Nebraskas Assessment Process

• Process for parent input?
• Parents provide input during the assessment
  process
• How is the assessment information transformed?
  
• Working with publishers to determine feasibility
  of computer-based formulas

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Nebraskas Assessment Process

• When is entry data being collected?
• Considering that data will collected within the
  45-60 days after referral

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What Counts Measuring benefits of Early
Intervention in Hawaii

• Number of reporting categories

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Decision Rationale

• Use ECO 5 categories
• maintained typical functioning
• made progress to achieve typical functioning
• moved nearer to typical functioning
• D. made progress but not enough to move
  nearer to typical functioning
• E. did not make progress
• Program improvement

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Number of Reporting Categories in NE

• Four Categories
• OSEPs 3 categories
• Plus of children who attain typical development

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What Counts Measuring benefits of Early
Intervention in Hawaii

• Data Collection interval

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What Counts Measuring benefits of Early
Intervention in Hawaii

• Data collection intervals rationale

• At every IFSP initial, review, annual
• At end of IFSP meeting
• Starting when child is at least 4 months old

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NE Data Collection Schedule

• Districts will be mandated to report entry and
  exit data
• Districts will be encouraged follow publishers
  guidelines for frequency of assessments

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What Counts Measuring Benefits of Early
Intervention in Hawaii

• Getting data to state
• Simpler than most states?
• More difficult than many states?
• Individual child scores will come to state with
  enough information

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NE Importing Data to the State

• Considering using the publishers internet system
  at the state level

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Next Steps for What Counts

• STEP 1 Pilot-test the What Counts measurement
  strategy at 3 programs on Oahu Nov. Recruit
  programs
• Dec. Train Program Staff
• Jan thru Feb conduct pilot and collect feedback

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Next Steps, continued

• Step 2 Revise procedures as indicated by pilot
  data and feedback Develop system for sending
  data up the chain Develop data analysis
  reporting routines. Decide what additional data
  we will collect
• Step 3 Initial implementation in 3 communities
  starts April 1, 2006.

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And another BIG step

• October 1, 2006
• ALL programs start measuring child benefits at
  each IFSP
• Data used for OSEP reporting
• Training planned to maximize usefulness of
  results to programs

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Nebraska's Roll Out Plans

• Pilot sites will be volunteer to send in entry
  data on newly enrolled children as of April 1,
  2006
• All districts will begin to collect entry data on
  newly enrolled children as of September 1, 2006

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