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Download full textWiener, Dan – 2002
This report explains how students with significant disabilities who submit portfolios for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) Alternate Assessments are evaluated to meet state requirements for a "competency determination" needed to receive a regular high school diploma. The reasoning behind the Massachusetts approach and the…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Competency Based Education, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Peer reviewedDudley, Martha – English Journal, 1997
Details the history of California's experience with large-scale writing assessment. Describes the introduction, development, and scoring of the California Assessment Program, later renamed the California Learning Assessment System (CLAS). Discusses controversies over removal of certain writing prompts and objections to CLAS. Notes that funding for…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment, Politics of Education, Program Descriptions
