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Download full textMari Quanbeck; Virginia A. Ressa; Martha L. Thurlow – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2025
This report presents findings from two studies examining accommodations policies and research on alternate assessments based on alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS). This policy analysis and literature review revealed several key insights about accommodations for AA-AAAS, with far-reaching implications for policy, practice, and…
Descriptors: State Policy, Alternative Assessment, Testing Accommodations, Academic Achievement
Martha L. Thurlow; Andrew R. Hinkle; Sheryl S. Lazarus; Kristin K. Liu – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2024
Alternate assessments aligned to alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS) are designed and implemented for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. Historically, these assessments have been described as reflecting reduced "depth," "breadth," and "complexity." Yet, the meaning of these terms…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational History, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
Katherine Nagle; Sheryl S. Lazarus; Gabriella Mottesi; Mari Quanbeck; Andrew R. Hinkle – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2025
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that each state have a State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR) that evaluates the state's efforts to implement the requirements and purposes of IDEA. States must report annually to the Secretary of Education on their performance on the indicators included in the…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Performance Based Assessment, Alternative Assessment, Educational Legislation
Yi-Chen Wu; Sheryl S. Lazarus; Martha L. Thurlow – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2023
Up to 1.0% of the total tested state student population in a subject area may participate in the alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS). This Brief presents the results of analyses of states' AA-AAAS participation rates from 2015-16 through 2018-19. Information is presented on: (a) the number of states…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Academic Standards, Students with Disabilities, Student Participation
Mari Quanbeck; Sheryl S. Lazarus; Andrew R. Hinkle – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2024
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), commonly known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), requires the participation of students with disabilities in state assessments used for accountability. Additionally, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires the participation of all students with disabilities in all…
Descriptors: Statewide Planning, Educational Planning, State Policy, Inclusion
The Relationship between Student Placement and AA-AAAS Participation Rates. NCEO Report 439. Updated
Sheryl S. Lazarus; Mari Quanbeck – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2023
The alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS) is designed for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The 2015 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), placed a 1% cap for states on student participation in the…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards
Browder, Diane; Lazarus, Sheryl; Thurlow, Martha – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2021
This Brief offers preliminary guidance for the development of interim assessment options for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. There are federal requirements that all statewide and districtwide administrations of an assessment must have an alternate assessment. Given the importance interim assessments have now when there…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Severe Intellectual Disability, Alternative Assessment, Evaluation Methods
Andrew R. Hinkle; Sheryl S. Lazarus; Kascinda Fleming; Martha L. Thurlow – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2024
There continues to be confusion among some educators and staff in State Education Agencies (SEAs) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) about what is an accommodation and what is a modification. This confusion about accommodations and modifications happens in how these words are used in both instruction and assessment. The confusion is further…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, School Districts, Students with Disabilities, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
Wesley Bruce – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2025
This report provides a resource for state and district assessment staff as they develop requests for proposals (RFPs) for interim assessments for all of their students, including those who require accessibility features, to demonstrate their knowledge and skills as well as those who may need an alternate assessment because of their significant…
Descriptors: Program Proposals, Grants, Research Proposals, Proposal Writing
S. S. Lazarus; K. Fleming; C. M. Rogers; V. A. Ressa; A. R. Hinkle; M. Quanbeck – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2024
This report highlights the findings of the sixteenth survey of states conducted by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO). It has been administered for more than three decades to collect information from states about the participation and performance of students with disabilities in the assessments that comprise the comprehensive…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Students with Disabilities, Academic Achievement, Accessibility (for Disabled)
Mari Quanbeck; Sheryl S. Lazarus; Martha L. Thurlow – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2023
In the years since the 2015 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) placed a 1.0% cap for states on participation in the alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS), states have worked hard to navigate the new restrictions on participation in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Alternative Assessment
Strunk, Kathy; Thurlow, Martha L.; Arner, Justin – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2020
The 2015 reauthorization of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) placed a state-level 1.0% threshold on student participation in the alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standard (AA-AAAS). ESSA also stipulated that state education agencies (SEAs) may not impose on any local educational agency (LEA) a cap on the percentage…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards
Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Hayes, Susan A.; Nagle, Kate; Liu, Kristin K.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Dosedel, Michael; Quanbeck, Mari; Olson, Rachel – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2021
This report presents the findings of an analysis of states' FFY 2018 State Systemic Improvement Plans (SSIPs), submitted to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in April 2020. It specifically addresses how assessments were included in states' State-Identified Measurable Results (SIMRs). For states with…
Descriptors: State Programs, Statewide Planning, Educational Improvement, Strategic Planning
Katanyoutanant, Tiffany; Kwon, Sylvia; McNeilly, Markie; Hemberg, Bryan; Thurlow, Martha L.; Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Hinkle, Andrew R.; Liu, Kristin K. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2021
Federal regulations require that all students in specified elementary, middle, and high school grade ranges participate in state assessments used for accountability. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that all children with disabilities are included in all general state and districtwide assessment programs with…
Descriptors: Federal Regulation, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education
Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Johnstone, Christopher J.; Liu, Kristin K.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Hinkle, Andrew R.; Burden, Kathryn – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2022
This "Guide" is an update to the State Guide to Universally Designed Assessments produced by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) in 2006 (Johnstone et al.). It provides a brief overview of what a universally designed assessment is, followed by a set of steps for states to consider when designing and developing, or…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment, Test Construction, Summative Evaluation
