Alternate Assessment Scores and Life Outcomes for Students with Significant Disabilities: Are They Related?.

Kleinert, Harold L.; Garrett, Brent; Towles, Elizabeth; Garrett, Michelle; Nowak-Drabik, Karen; Waddell, Christina; Kearns, Jacqueline Farmer

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ERIC Number: EJ659292

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2002

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Alternate Assessment Scores and Life Outcomes for Students with Significant Disabilities: Are They Related?

Kleinert, Harold L.; Garrett, Brent; Towles, Elizabeth; Garrett, Michelle; Nowak-Drabik, Karen; Waddell, Christina; Kearns, Jacqueline Farmer

Assessment for Effective Intervention, v28 n1 p19-30 Fall 2002

A study investigated the extent to which alternate assessment scores for 41 12th-graders in Kentucky's Alternate Portfolio Program for students with significant disabilities correlated with a measure of post-school outcomes approximately one year after completing school. No significant relationship was found between these two measures. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Decision Making Skills, Employment, Interpersonal Relationship, Life Events, Outcomes of Education, Portfolio Assessment, Predictor Variables, Quality of Life, Secondary Education, Severe Disabilities, Social Integration

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Kentucky

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