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Direct linkBrownell, Mary T.; Jones, Nathan D. – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2015
Over a relatively short period of time, states and districts across the country have embraced reform surrounding teacher evaluation and compensation. Public concern over teacher evaluations, combined with federal initiatives designed to support teacher evaluation reform, led many states to adopt more comprehensive evaluation systems that draw on…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Special Education Teachers, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Effectiveness
Download full textChristensen, Laurene L.; Braam, Maureen; Scullin, Sarah; Thurlow, Martha L. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2011
The National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) has been tracking and analyzing state policies on assessment participation and accommodations since 1992. The purpose of the current analysis is to update information on these policies that was last reported by NCEO in 2008 (based on 2007 data). In addition, current state accommodations policies…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Disabilities, Guidelines, Special Needs Students
Elliott, Stephen N.; Kratochwill, Thomas R.; McKevitt, Brian C.; Malecki, Christine Kerres – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
The present study examined the effect accommodations have on test results of students with and without disabilities and documented experts' judgments about the appropriateness of testing accommodations. Test score data were collected from 218 fourth-grade students with and without disabilities on mathematics and science performance tasks and from…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Performance Based Assessment, Scores, Context Effect
Clapper, Ann T.; Morse, Amanda B.; Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Thompson, Sandra J.; Thurlow, Martha L. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2005
The National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) has been tracking and analyzing state policies on assessment participation and accommodations since 1992. The purpose of the current analysis is to update information on these policies that was last reported by NCEO in 2002 (based on 2001 data). The current analysis of states' 2003 participation…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Objectives, Sign Language, Disabilities
Walker, David A.; Mohammad, Shereeza F. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2005
This analysis indicated that from variables theorized to influenced score changes in NAEP reading scores from 1994-1998, two were the most consistent with pattern of correlations found in the data. Together, both median household income (AVGINC) and the percentage of students eligible for free and reduced-priced lunch (FRELCH) had fairly large…
Descriptors: Family Income, Academic Achievement, Lunch Programs, Grade 4
Grissmer, David – American Institutes for Research, 2007
The NAEP Validity Studies (NVS) Panel provides advice and recommendations to help insure the "validity" of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test scores. The primary objectives of NAEP tests are to accurately monitor the progress of defined groups of students over time and to measure valid differences in scores…
Descriptors: Testing, School Involvement, Academic Achievement, Validity
Cantrell, Pamela; Sudweeks, Richard – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2009
This project investigated the effects of technology task autonomy, teacher gender, and student gender on student achievement scores for students disaggregated by IEP and SES in middle school science classrooms. Participants were from the treatment group in a larger quasi-experimental design project that investigated the effects of integrated…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Student Motivation, Scores, Personal Autonomy
Pullin, Diana – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
Current national efforts at education reform rely largely on the use of standardized testing, the cornerstone of federal education policy as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, with its requirements for regular testing of all students and demonstrations of adequate yearly progress on tests by all schools. The challenges…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs
