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Browder, Diane M.; Wakeman, Shawnee Y.; Flowers, Claudia; Rickelman, Robert J.; Pugalee, Dave; Karvonen, Meagan – Journal of Special Education, 2007
Current federal policy requires that students with disabilities participate in large-scale assessments and be included in schools' scores for adequate yearly progress. Students with significant cognitive disabilities may participate in an alternate assessment with alternate achievement standards, but these standards must be linked to grade-level…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Alternative Assessment, Disabilities
Roach, Andrew T.; Elliott, Stephan N.; Webb, Norman L. – Journal of Special Education, 2005
In this article, the authors describe an alignment and content analysis of the Wisconsin Alternate Assessment (WAA) for students with disabilities. The WAA is an assessment of the academic performance of students with significant disabilities and is an alternative to the traditional on-demand achievement test. Alternate assessments like the WAA…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Validity, Content Validity, Content Analysis
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Pomplun, Mark – Journal of Special Education, 1996
This article describes results for students with mild disabilities who participated in the Kansas science assessment involving cooperative groups. Individual achievement, attitude, and project scores were consistent with expectations in relation to results for general education students. The study did not find that participation of students with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Alternative Assessment, Cooperative Learning