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Browder, Diane; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Flowers, Claudia; Karvonen, Meagan; Spooner, Fred; Algozzine, Robert – 2002
Since the passage of the 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, inclusion of all students with disabilities in accountability systems has been mandatory. By 2001, school personnel began to understand that alternate assessment needed to focus on students' performance on state standards, and nearly all states had created…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Definitions, Disabilities
Browder, Diane; Flowers, Claudia; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Karvonen, Meagan; Spooner, Fred; Algozzine, Robert – 2002
The 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) required that states provide alternate assessments for students unable to participate in the statewide assessment systems (e.g., those with severe disabilities). IDEA mandated that alternate assessments access the general curriculum. This study examined the curricular…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Content Validity, Curriculum, Disabilities