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Arkansas Department of Education Special Education Unit
Part B State Performance Plan
purpose. First, they measure family outcomes as adopted under the GSEG awarded to
Arkansas in 2004. Second, they provide insight as to the level of parental involvement.
Anecdotally, one would state that early childhood programs that promote parental
involvement will have parents who are better informed about their child’s disability and
their rights, and will have greater skills in helping their child develop and learn.
Questions with answers scoring 5-7 were included in the calculation for Indicator 8.
Additionally, question ten was added to the survey to provide a more direct link to the
indicator. A copy of the survey is located in Appendix I.
Question 6 (89.2% agree) had the greatest amount of agreement and Question 7 (23.48%
disagree) had the least amount of agreement.
B. School age programs: 211 local education agencies with special education school age
programs completed family outcome surveys for the 2005-06 school year. Overall, 7,485
surveys were collected. Of those surveys, 7,137 respondents, or 95.35% reported school
facilitated parent involvement as a means of improving services and results for children
with disabilities.
Fifteen questions were selected from the NCSEAM family survey question bank felt to
represent the measurement of Indicator 8. A copy of the survey is located in Appendix I.
Questions 11 (94.89% agree) and 2 (94.18% agree) had the greatest level of agreement
while Questions 13 (37.39% disagree) and 1 (30.03% disagree) had the least level of
agreement.
In late March 2006, the IDEA Data & Research Office conducted trainings on the early
childhood and school age family surveys for all local education agencies including DDS.
Each LEA was given a secured password that would allow it to access the web-based family
surveys.
While it was anticipated that the web-based surveys (English and Spanish) would be ready in
early February 2006, delays in the translation to Spanish resulted in a late March release.
Unfortunately, by that time, many of the LEAs had already completed their annual reviews
and had to rely on mailing surveys to parents. The IDEA Data & Research Office provided
embedded scan surveys along with return envelopes to LEAs upon request. Both the
web-based and embedded scan forms of the survey were available in English and Spanish. No
other languages have been added at this time.
Data collection for this indicator began in late March 2006 and ran through June 2006. In
May 2006, the special education website became unavailable for over two months due to
ADE network security restrictions, thus hampering the data collection procedures. Although
the LEAs were unable to submit surveys electronically, those utilizing the scannable forms
were able to submit the forms to the IDEA Data & Research Office for processing.
Arkansas State Improvement Grant activities in 2005-06 included hiring a State Parent
Coordinator housed within the Arkansas PTI in a collaborative effort to oversee the SIG’s
parent outreach goals. As part of this process a parent mentor outreach project was developed.
As of May 2006, a total of 173 parents have been identified as willing to participate in the
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