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Peer reviewedGarrett, Brent; Towles, Elizabeth; Kleinert, Harold; Kearns, Jacqui – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2003
This article provides a template to assist policymakers in developing and refining reliable large-scale alternate assessments for students with significant disabilities unable to participate in general state and district assessments. It also discusses Kentucky's 10-year experience with its alternate assessment and experiences of other states…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Download full textAhearn, Eileen M. – 2000
This document synthesizes the 1999 National Center on Educational Outcomes report on special education outcomes, subtitled "A Report on State Activities at the End of the Century," and reviews the changes in states' assessment policies and practices for students with disabilities over the past decade. The report finds that despite the fact that…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Fisher, Douglas; Roach, Virginia; Kearns, Jacqui – CISP Issue Brief, 1998
The National Consortium on Inclusive Schooling Practices (1996) developed a framework to analyze state and local policies and their effects on school inclusion. The framework focuses on standards-based systemic reform across six major policy areas: curriculum, student assessment, accountability, personnel development and professional training,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Accountability, Disabilities
