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Download full textSmarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2020
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) strives to provide every student with a positive and productive assessment experience, generating results that are a fair and accurate estimate of each student's achievement. Further, Smarter Balanced is building on a framework of accessibility for all students, including English…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, English Language Learners, Students with Disabilities
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2019
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) strives to provide every student with a positive and productive assessment experience, generating results that are a fair and accurate estimate of each student's achievement. Further, Smarter Balanced is building on a framework of accessibility for all students, including English…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, English Language Learners, Students with Disabilities
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2018
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) strives to provide every student with a positive and productive assessment experience, generating results that are a fair and accurate estimate of each student's achievement. Further, Smarter Balanced is building on a framework of accessibility for all students, including English…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, English Language Learners, Disabilities
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Direct linkVaughan-Jensen, Jessica; Adame, Cindy; McLean, Lauren; Gamez, Brenda – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2011
This article reviews "Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-Third Edition" (WIAT-III), which is designed to assess students' skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and mathematics. The test can identify an individual's strengths and weaknesses, assist professionals who are determining whether a student is eligible for special…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Individualized Education Programs, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
El-Kazimi, Nidal – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Legislators mandated transition education for students with disabilities to improve their post-school outcomes. Each student with an IEP should have an annual transition plan at or before his or her 16th birthday. IDEA mandated the utilization of age appropriate transition assessment to develop students' post-secondary transition goals based on…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Goal Orientation
Omichinski, Donna Riccio; Van Tubbergen, Marie; Warschausky, Seth – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2008
A component of a school assessment plan includes traditional IQ testing, often referred to as psychological or psycho-educational testing. Psycho-educational testing can yield information about how a student compares to others in her grade or age group, individual strengths and needs, and recommendations to improve instruction. The intended…
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests, Psychological Testing, Educational Testing
Middleton, Kyndra; Laitusis, Cara Cahalan – ETS Research Report Series, 2007
This study examined whether distractor choices functioned differently for students without learning disabilities than they functioned for students with learning disabilities who received no accommodation, students with learning disabilities who received a read-aloud accommodation, and students with learning disabilities who received some form of…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Learning Disabilities, Comparative Analysis, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
Simon, Joan B. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2006
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act mandates that free, appropriate, public education (FAPE) be provided to children with educationally-defined disabilities. The Individualized Education Program (IEP) requirement (i.e., team meeting and document) is the method for providing FAPE to children. Previous research has failed to consider…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Disabilities
Waksman, Steven A. – 1980
The Preliminary Manual for the Portland Problem Behavior Checklist (PPBC) was developed to aid school personnel to identify problem behaviors, and to implement and evaluate intervention procedures to remediate or alter those problem behaviors. This manual describes the development, validation, administration, scoring procedures, and possible uses…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Check Lists, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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
