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Download full textYsseldyke, James E.; And Others – 1994
This report is a summary of a March 1994 meeting to agree on guidelines for making inclusion and accommodation decisions concerning students with disabilities in national and state large-scale assessments. Much of the discussion at the meeting focused on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Factors that lead to the exclusion of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adaptive Testing, Decision Making, Disabilities
Ysseldyke, James E.; Thurlow, Martha – NCEO Policy Directions, 1994
Students with disabilities have been excluded to an unreasonable extent from large-scale assessment programs at the national, state, and local levels. One implication of this exclusion practice is that students who are left out of assessments tend not to be considered during reform efforts. Another implication is that estimates of performance are…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
