The NRS follow-up measures are outcomes that students may achieve at some time following participation in adult education. Voting behavior - whether the student registered to vote or voted for the first time. Involvement in children' s education - such as involvement in school and helping with homework. The local follow-up survey is a survey conducted on all or a random sample of learners in each of the state's adult education programs. Local programs, the state or a third party contractor conducts the survey on learners who had a goal of obtained employment in the first quarter after the exit quarter for the employment measures.
Retained employment is collected in the third quarter following exit.
The other follow-up measures may be collected any time during the program year. States can also use the local survey to collect the secondary outcome measures. That means that local adult education providers which receive public funds will have the responsibility for conducting these surveys. Programs choosing to sample students must develop a sampling procedure that is scientifically valid, conforms to accepted practice and results in a sample that is sufficiently large to make meaningful inferences about each follow-up outcome measure. The sample should be drawn using complete program lists of students who have attended at least 12 hours.