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Curran, F. Chris; Bal, Aydin; Goff, Peter; Mitchell, Nicholas – Education and Urban Society, 2021
Students placed in special education programs for emotional and behavioral disorders with emotional disturbance (ED) identification have academic outcomes that lag both students in regular and special education. This issue is especially important for youth attending urban schools. Although prior research has examined students identified as ED,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Suspension, Probability, Discipline
Kyle William Resch – ProQuest LLC, 2021
School personnel are accountable for the academic "achievement" of students with and without disability labels (Every Student Succeeds Act [ESSA], 2015). In Wisconsin, "achievement" is measured via performance on standardized academic assessments (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction [DPI], 2019). The use of these…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Academic Achievement, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education
Berndt, Sandra; Ebben, Barbara; Kubinski, Eva; Sim, Grant; Liu, Kristin; Lazarus, Sheryl; Thurlow, Martha; Christian, Elizabeth – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2011
Beginning in 2007, federal regulations to two major education laws gave state departments of education the option to develop an alternate assessment based on modified achievement standards (AA-MAS) for some students with disabilities. The regulations stated that the AA-MAS was intended for students who were being instructed in the grade-level…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Eligibility, Alternative Assessment, Focus Groups
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 2000
This document discusses the development and implementation of alternative performance indicators (APIs) to assess the educational progress of children with disabilities in Wisconsin toward model academic content standards. It begins by describing the alternate assessment process, the definition of APIs, and the process of developing APIs.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Roach, Andrew T.; Elliott, Stephen N.; Webb, Norman L. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2003
The primary purpose of the investigation was to determine the extent to which (a) the Wisconsin Alternate Assessment (WAA) adequately measures the skills and concepts that make up the curriculum and instruction of students with significant disabilities; and (b) the WAA adequately measures the concepts and skill areas represented in Wisconsin's…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Rating Scales, Individualized Education Programs, Content Validity