Mississippi Assessment and Accountability Reporting System
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What is STUDENT ASSESSMENT DATA Disaggregated by NCLB Subgroup?
The results from Mississippi's assessment programs have been reported in many different
ways over the years. For tests administered from 1987/1988 through 1994/1995 the summary
results and district-by-district and school-by-school listings were printed and bound.
Although computer-readable data files have been prepared and saved for tests administered
from 1990/1991 through the present, electronic public access has been available only since
the fall of 1998 -- using the Office of Research and Statistics's FTP and HTTP/Web server.
Prior to the implementation of the most recent assessment program (2000/2001), assessment
results were reported for "all students" in a particular school, district, or the state.
When the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was re-authorized in 1994 as the
Improving America's Schools Act (IASA), Title I of the Act required that states report
assessment data "disaggregated" by gender, race/ethnicity, special education status,
economic disadvantagement (poverty), limited English proficiency status, and migrant
student status. This requirement continued under Title I when the Act was re-authorized as
the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (signed into law in January 2002).
STUDENT ASSESSMENT DATA Disaggregated by NCLB Subgroup refers to data files
containing Mississippi student assessment results disaggregated by the above subgroups.
This term is used to distinguish between those files and "Classic Format" files containing
non-disaggregated assessment results.