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Collecting Post-School Outcome Data: Strategies for Increasing Response Rates

• Collecting Post-School Outcome Data: Strategies for Increasing Response Rates

The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD) is pleased to announce the following OSEP approved document "Collecting Post-School Outcome Data: Strategies for Increasing Response Rates" prepared in partnership with the National Post-School Outcomes Center (NPSO) at the University of Oregon. In this document, Drs. Sandra Covington Smith and Loujeania Williams Bost from NDPC-SD provides an overview of the IDEA requirements to collect post-school outcome data, challenges faced by states in collecting these data, and recommended strategies from survey literature and state and local practice to secure sufficient response rates, especially from youth who are drop out of school. Links to the document and other related documents about post-school outcomes are below.

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Teleconference Notes
November 28, 2006
Topic: "Collecting Post-School Outcome Data: Increasing Response Rates and Locating Hard-to-Find Youth" Presenter: Loujeania Williams Bost, Director, National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities.