Division I Academic Performance Program Update

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Division IAcademic Performance ProgramUpdate

• February 23, 2005

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Board Directive Regarding Team Academic
Performance

• reward teams that demonstrate commitment
  toward academic progress of student-athletes and
  penalize those that do not.
• Encourage academic performance of all
  student-athletes on all sports teams.
• Reward institutions/teams that achieve
  significant academic success.
• Penalize those that have a history of academic
  underachievement (i.e., habitual offenders).

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Academic Progress Rate

• NCAA Academic Progress Rate
• --Points awarded for eligibility, retention and
  graduation
• --Based on term-by-term measurement
• --Totaled over four years
• --Includes student-athletes receiving athletics
  aid
• OR
• --For nonscholarship programs/teams, a subset of
  recruited student-athlete
• --Used in analysis for contemporaneous and
  historical penalties

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APR Scoring Issues

• Scoring system issues.
• Raw APR scores multiplied by 1000 (e.g., .92
  becomes 920).

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• Contemporaneous PenaltyCut Point
• Teams with an APR score below 925 are subject to
  contemporaneous penalties.
• An APR of 925 represents an expected graduation
  rate of 50.
• Confidence level of 84 established to account
  for small sample sizes.
• 7.4 percent of all Division I teams below 925.

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Confidence Intervals for APRs

• Small sample sizes of some teams can lead to
  reduced confidence in the APR statistic as an
  estimate of performance for those teams.
  Particularly true with only one or two years of
  data.
• Confidence intervals, commonly used in
  statistics, roughly represent a range of scores
  within which we are confident that the true APR
  for that team resides (true APR being the
  long-term expectation given static systemic
  conditions e.g., academic characteristics of
  recruited athletes, institutional support, etc.).

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Confidence Intervals for APRs

• A reasonable way to account for reduced
  confidence in small sample APRs would be to
  compare the upper confidence boundary to a given
  benchmark. If a squad possesses an upper
  boundary below a certain APR benchmark, we can
  say with strong confidence that the squad is not
  achieving at that standard.
• Board approved an upper 84 confidence boundary
  (this is 1 standard deviation, or a 1-tailed
  limit) in conjunction with a 2-year aggregate
  estimate of squad size when comparing a squads
  APR to various benchmarks.
• Data displayed in this presentation all use this
  boundary when benchmark comparisons are displayed.

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Using Confidence Intervals in Conjunction with
APR Benchmarks
Team A APR 885
Cutpoint APR 925
Team not subject to penalty because upper
confidence bound is above cutpoint.
Confidence Interval N5
Confidence Interval N80
Team is subject to penalty because upper
confidence bound is below cutpoint.
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Contemporaneous Penalties

• Financial Aid Restriction
• Penalty aid previously awarded to a
  student-athlete who did not earn eligibility the
  next regular academic term and did not return to
  the institution.
• Once subject, maximum team financial aid limit is
  reduced by value of total countable aid awarded
  to student-athlete who did not earn eligibility
  and was not retained the following academic year.
  
• Exception for student-athletes who have exhausted
  athletics eligibility.
• Headcount sport penalty 1.0 (per
  student-athlete).
• Equivalency sport penalty total countable aid
  awarded to 0/2 student-athletes who do not meet
  exception.

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Exception

• CAP interpretation. (January 9, 2005)
• Example
• Football student-athlete 0/2 after fall term,
  eligibility exhausted. Does not subject team to
  penalty

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Contemporaneous Penalty Reminders

• Example
• Fall 2/2
• Spring 0/2
• 2/4 for academic year
• Student-athlete does subject team to penalty
  based on 0/2 spring term.
• Note Assumes team APR below 925.

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Contemporaneous Penalty Reminders

• Penalty must be taken at the next available
  opportunity
• Not later than two-academic years after
  student-athletes departure
• Penalty must be taken in academic year
  immediately following student-athletes
  departure, unless a signed prospective
  student-athlete will be impacted official
  interpretation (reference 01/21/04).

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Capping of Contemporaneous Penalty Scholarship
Losses

• In order to ensure contemporaneous penalties are
  attention-getting penalties and not death
  penalties, Board approved a limit on the number
  of contemporaneous penalties that apply to a team
  in any given year.
• Teams below 925 APR could earn scholarship
  reductions up to the cap amount.
• Cap approximately 10 of NCAA max. team limits,
  rounded up for headcount sports

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Capping Examples Headcount Sports
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Headcount Sport Example

• Division IA Football
• Team APR is below 925.
• Six student-athletes have not earned eligibility
  and do not return.
• Penalty with cap (9 GIA) 6 GIA

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Capping Examples Equivalency Sports
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Equivalency Sport Example

• Baseball
• Team APR is below 925 APR.
• Three student-athletes have not earned
  eligibility and do not return. Total countable
  aid awarded to these student-athletes equals
  1.20.
• Penalty under cap (1.17 GIA )1.17 (GIA)

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Contemporaneous Penalties

• Apply based on two-year APR score (2003-04 and
  2004-05 combined) and on student-athlete
  eligibility and retention status in 2004-05
  (i.e., 0/2 student-athlete may subject team to
  contemporaneous penalties).
• Contemporaneous penalty based on two-, three-,
  then four-year APR score. Once have four-year
  APR, will use four-year score.

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Timeline for Implementation Contemporaneous
Penalty

• 2003-04 - year one APR data.
• January 2005 - APR cut established.
• February 2005 APR reports sent to member
  institutions.
• 2004-05 - year two APR data/student-athlete
  eligibility/retention will determine
  contemporaneous penalties.
• Early fall 2005 - data submitted/initial
  notification.
• 2005-06 - penalties taken based on 2004-05 year,
  unless interp applies.
• December 2005 - institutions officially notified
  if subject to contemporaneous penalty based on
  two years of APR data.