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Using Information from the Reading Recovery Program within a Response-to-Intervention Framework
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O'Connor, Evelyn A.; Yasik, Anastasia E. – Communique, 2015
The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) requires that decisions about a student's eligibility for special education services be based on more than one procedure. Futhermore, the reauthorization of IDEA in 2004, known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA), indicated that traditional assessments are not required…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Federal Legislation
Creating Accessible and Inclusive Online Learning: Moving beyond Compliance and Broadening the Discussion
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Lowenthal, Patrick R.; Greear, Krista; Humphrey, Michael; Lowenthal, Alison; Conley, Quincy; Giacumo, Lisa A.; Dunlap, Joanna C. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2020
Accessibility is a hot topic in online education these days. Despite the increased focus on accessibility, most discussions of creating "accessible" online courses and elearning simply focus on adding alternative text to images and captions to video. In this article, we argue that online educators and workplace learning professionals…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Inclusion, Online Courses, Student Needs
Examining the Use of Classroom Observations in the Evaluation of Special Education Teachers
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Jones, Nathan D.; Brownell, Mary T. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2014
A primary focus of recent educational policymaking has been on improving measures of teaching effectiveness, attributable in part to recent federal policies such as the Race to the Top initiative and Investing in Innovation. To date, neither researchers nor practitioners have arrived at a consensus on the best methods for evaluating special…
Descriptors: Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Evaluation, Observation
Formative Assessment Made Easy: Templates for Collecting Daily Data in Inclusive Classrooms
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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