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Test Accommodations for LEP Students. ERIC Digest.

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Stansfield, Charles; Rivera, Charlene – 2001

This digest presents an overview of accommodations for students of limited English proficiency (LEP) and an overview of inclusion practices on statewide assessments, with emphasis on the accommodation known as linguistic simplification. The inclusion of LEP students in statewide testing programs over the last decade has been uneven. In the…

Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools

Statewide Assessment Programs: Policies and Practices for the Inclusion of Limited English Proficient Students. ERIC/AE Digest.

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Rivera, Charlene; Vincent, Carolyn; Hafner, Anne; LaCelle-Peterson, Mark – 1997

The standards-based educational reform initiatives of the 1990's call for assessment innovations to support high standards. To document state assessment policies and to develop policy recommendations for assessment innovations, the George Washington University Center for Excellence and Equity in Education surveyed state assessment directors in…

Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education