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Download full textMinnema, Jane E.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Warren, Sandra Hopfengardner – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2004
This report is an accounting of a second case study of large-scale assessment practices in a local educational agency where students with disabilities were administered the state's standards-based tests out of level. The first report (Minnema et al., 2004a) provided the results from the first case study conducted in another school district in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Instructional Program Divisions, Student Attitudes, Measurement
Minnema, Jane E.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Van Getson, Gretchen R. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2004
Proponents of out-of-level testing generally contend that there are three benefits for students with disabilities: (1) undue test frustration is avoided; (2) test measurement accuracy is improved; and (3) test items are better matched to students' current educational goals and instructional level (Thurlow, Elliott, & Ysseldyke, 1999). It is…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Instructional Program Divisions, Teacher Attitudes, Measurement
