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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 107 / Monday, June 7, 2021 / Notices characteristics of the high-need students to be served under the Expansion grant;
2 the correspondence of practices the applicant plans to implement with the practices cited in the studies; and 3
the intended student outcomes that the proposed practices attempts to impact.
If the Department determines that an applicant has provided insufficient information, the applicant will not have an opportunity to provide additional information. However, if the WWC
determines that a study does not provide enough information on key aspects of the study design, such as sample attrition or equivalence of intervention and comparison groups, the WWC may submit a query to the study authors to gather information for use in determining a study rating.
Authors would be asked to respond to queries within 10 business days. Should the author query remain incomplete within 14 days of the initial contact to the study authors, the study may be deemed ineligible under the grant competition. After the grant competition closes, the WWC will, for purposes of its own curation of studies, continue to include responses to author queries and make updates to study reviews as necessary. However, no additional information will be considered after the competition closes and the initial timeline established for response to an author query passes.
Absolute Priority 2Field-Initiated InnovationsGeneral.
Projects designed to create, develop, implement, replicate, or take to scale entrepreneurial, evidence-based, fieldinitiated innovations to improve student achievement and attainment for highneed students.
Invitational Priorities: For FY 2021
and any subsequent year in which we make awards from the list of unfunded applications from this competition, these priorities are invitational priorities. Under 34 CFR.105c1 we do not give an application that meets these invitational priorities a competitive or absolute preference over other applications.
These priorities are:
Invitational Priority 1Innovative Approaches to Addressing the Impact of COVID19 on Underserved Students and Educators.
Projects that are designed to address the needs of underserved students most impacted by COVID19.
Invitational Priority 2Promoting Equity and Adequacy in Student Access to Educational Resources and Opportunities.
Projects that are designed to promote equity and adequacy in access to critical
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resources in Pre-K12 for underserved students.
Definitions: The definitions of baseline, experimental study, logic model, strong evidence, national level, nonprofit, performance measure, performance target, project component, regional level, relevant outcome, and What Works Clearinghouse Handbooks WWC
Handbook are from 34 CFR 77.1. The definitions of local educational agency, and State educational agency are from section 8101 of the ESEA.
Baseline means the starting point from which performance is measured and targets are set.
Experimental study means a study that is designed to compare outcomes between two groups of individuals such as students that are otherwise equivalent except for their assignment to either a treatment group receiving a project component or a control group that does not. Randomized controlled trials, regression discontinuity design studies, and single-case design studies are the specific types of experimental studies that, depending on their design and implementation e.g., sample attrition in randomized controlled trials and regression discontinuity design studies, can meet What Works Clearinghouse WWC standards without reservations as described in the WWC Handbooks:
i A randomized controlled trial employs random assignment of, for example, students, teachers, classrooms, or schools to receive the project component being evaluated the treatment group or not to receive the project component the control group.
ii A regression discontinuity design study assigns the project component being evaluated using a measured variable e.g., assigning students reading below a cutoff score to tutoring or developmental education classes and controls for that variable in the analysis of outcomes.
iii A single-case design study uses observations of a single case e.g., a student eligible for a behavioral intervention over time in the absence and presence of a controlled treatment manipulation to determine whether the outcome is systematically related to the treatment.
Local educational agency LEA
means:
a In General. A public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary schools or secondary schools in a city, county,
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township, school district, or other political subdivision of a State, or of or for a combination of school districts or counties that is recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public elementary schools or secondary schools.
b Administrative Control and Direction. The term includes any other public institution or agency having administrative control and direction of a public elementary school or secondary school.
c Bureau of Indian Education Schools. The term includes an elementary school or secondary school funded by the Bureau of Indian Education but only to the extent that including the school makes the school eligible for programs for which specific eligibility is not provided to the school in another provision of law and the school does not have a student population that is smaller than the student population of the LEA receiving assistance under the ESEA with the smallest student population, except that the school shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of any SEA as defined in this notice other than the Bureau of Indian Education.
d Educational Service Agencies. The term includes educational service agencies and consortia of those agencies.
e State Educational Agency. The term includes the SEA in a State in which the SEA is the sole educational agency for all public schools.
Logic model also referred to as a theory of action means a framework that identifies key project components of the proposed project i.e., the active ingredients that are hypothesized to be critical to achieving the relevant outcomes and describes the theoretical and operational relationships among the key project components and relevant outcomes.
National level describes the level of scope or effectiveness of a process, product, strategy, or practice that is able to be effective in a wide variety of communities, including rural and urban areas, as well as with different groups e.g., economically disadvantaged, racial and ethnic groups, migrant populations, individuals with disabilities, English learners, and individuals of each gender.
Nonprofit, as applied to an agency, organization, or institution, means that it is owned and operated by one or more corporations or associations whose net earnings do not benefit, and cannot lawfully benefit, any private shareholder or entity.
Performance measure means any quantitative indicator, statistic, or
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