The Opt-Out Movement: Analyzing the Underlying Factors Influencing Students’ Decision to Skip New York State Tests

Preregistration of analyses

Analysis #1

Our first analysis that we vow to present in our final report is looking at the variables economic status, the presence of a disability, or fluent language skills and their impact on the total number of refusals for the ELA exam. We will test hypotheses using multiple variable regression models with the fit() function. We will also calculate p-vals and confidence intervals.

Analysis #2

Our second analysis will be looking at the relationship between ELA exams and MATH exams in terms of the percentage of refusals. We will use simulation to tests our hypothesis’, we will calculate a confidence interval for our results, and we will calculate and interpret the correlation of the relationship.