25.065 - Community Eligibility and National School Lunch Program Status: A View From NAEP

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Student eligibility for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) has been used as a proxy for socioeconomic status (SES) in the reporting of results for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) since 2003. Concerns about NSLP as a valid SES proxy have recently risen substantially with the introduction of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) option throughout the nation in 2014. Under certain CEP applications, schools and entire school systems will report all students as NSLP eligible. The four presentations in this symposium will focus on a variety of related topics from an investigation that shows the continued effectiveness of NSLP in NAEP at the national level to a proposal for a new measure: Economic Disadvantage status.

Sub Unit

• SIG-NAEP Studies

Chair

• George W. Bohrnstedt, American Institutes for Research

Discussant

• George W. Bohrnstedt, American Institutes for Research

Papers

• National School Lunch Program Eligibility and Its Relationship With NAEP Performance on the National and State Levels - Markus Broer, American Institutes for Research; Jing Chen, National Center for Education Statistics; Qingshu Xie, MacroSys LLC

• An Analysis of Schools That Operate Under National School Lunch Program Community Eligibility Provision - Cheng Shuang (Grace) Ji, American Institutes for Research; Markus Broer, American Institutes for Research

• Examining the Reliability of Student Eligibility for the National School Lunch Program in NAEP With American Community Survey Data - Qingshu Xie, MacroSys LLC

• Is Economically Disadvantaged Status a Valid Alternative to National School Lunch Program Eligibility for NAEP? - Kavemuii Murangi, Westat