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M. Stoehr; M. Diehl; M. Morningstar; D. Rowe; B. K. Simmons; C. Fowler; D. Lattin; J. Vicchio; E. Wall – National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: The Collaborative, 2024
The National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: the Collaborative (NTACT:C) Collaborative Assessment Guide for Transition Planning (CAG) is intended to help students, family members, educators, vocational rehabilitation counselors, human services and health agency staff, and other partners develop a coordinated assessment approach for…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Equal Education, Educational Legislation, Students with Disabilities
Tessie Rose Bailey; Zachary Weingarten – National Center on Intensive Intervention, 2022
The 2017 Supreme Court decision "Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District" highlighted the importance of monitoring students' progress toward appropriately challenging individualized educational program (IEP) annual goals and making changes to students' educational programs when needed. The process for setting an IEP goal should be…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Quality, Individualized Education Programs, Court Litigation
Smarter 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
Hauser, Marc D. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2017
Individualized education program (IEP) goals and objectives often provide illogical or insufficient methodological detail (e.g., Capizzi, 2008). Insufficient methods can lead to ambiguity among the staff members responsible for data collection or to data that fail to take into account factors that can affect performance or behavioral expression…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Evidence Based Practice, Special Education Teachers, Educational Objectives
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
Ring, Emer; Daly, Patricia; Wall, Eugene – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2018
"Autism from the Inside Out" is the first book to focus on providing Irish parents, early childhood, primary, post-primary and special school teachers with effective strategies for supporting children with autism spectrum difference at home and in educational settings. Presenting contributions from a range of national and international…
Descriptors: Autism, Guides, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Cornelius, Kyena E. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2013
Special educators are required to collect data on student progress and use it as formative data to inform instructional decisions. Being told to collect student data without being shown how to effectively and efficiently collect it, may cause teachers to become overwhelmed. This article provides three easy-to-use templates to facilitate quick data…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Special Education, Eligibility, Individualized Education Programs
Gill, Matt; Outka, Janeen; McCorkle, Mary – South Dakota Department of Education, 2015
Student growth is one of two essential components of South Dakota's Teacher and Principal Effectiveness Systems. In the state systems, student growth is defined as a positive change in student achievement between two or more points in time. "The South Dakota SLO Handbook" provides support and guidance to public schools and school…
Descriptors: Guides, Public Schools, School Districts, Statistical Analysis
Grading and Reporting in a Standards-Based Environment: Implications for Students with Special Needs
Guskey, Thomas R.; Jung, Lee Ann – Theory Into Practice, 2009
Teachers at all levels of education today struggle in their efforts to assign fair, accurate, and meaningful grades to students with disabilities, especially those placed in general education classrooms. Lacking specific policies or recommendations, most teachers apply informal, individual grading adaptations for such students. Although these…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Disabilities, Classroom Environment, Special Needs Students
Thoma, Colleen A.; Wehman, Paul – Brookes Publishing Company, 2010
Student-directed IEPs are quickly gaining momentum in schools across the country--the proven benefits include higher academic achievement, enhanced student motivation, and increased communication and self-advocacy skills for students with disabilities. Now for the first time, there's a book that gives elementary and high school educators in-depth…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2004
The North Carolina Alternate Assessment Portfolio (NCAAP) is a year-long, performance-based assessment process that involves a representative and deliberate collection of student work/information that allows the user(s) to make judgments about what a student knows and is able to do. This includes the progress that has been made in those goals…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Individualized Education Programs, Alternative Assessment, Portfolio Assessment
Bateman, Barbara D.; Herr, Cynthia M.; Kinney, Tom, Ed. – 2003
This book is a guide to writing measurable goals and objectives for individualized education programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Part 1 discusses appropriate goals, objectives, and benchmarks (GO/Bs). Accompanied by many examples, the text discusses measurability,…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Dick, Marlene A. – 1983
The paper addresses problems and strategies for evaluating mainstreamed students in vocational education classes. In addition to grading concerns, the area of graduation requirements is also considered. Alternatives to traditional methods of evaluation, including competencey based evaluation and adaptation of assessment techniques are described as…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Grading, Graduation Requirements
Kleinert, Harold L.; Kearns, Jacqui Farmer – Brookes Publishing Company, 2010
To support K-12 students with significant disabilities and get an accurate picture of their skills and knowledge, schools need to implement effective alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS). This is the guidebook every team should have--not only to develop successful AA-AAS linked with grade-level content standards,…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Alternative Assessment, Disabilities, Program Effectiveness