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Content Analysis of Science Performance Indicators in Alternate Assessment
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Spooner, Fred; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Kohprasert, Kingsorn; Baker, Joshua; Courtade, Ginevra – Remedial and Special Education, 2008
Under the requirement of both the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (1997) and No Child Left Behind (NCLB; 2002), states are required to provide alternate assessment for students who cannot participate in general curriculum and statewide assessments. According to NCLB, states are required to report the progress of all students in science…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Alternative Assessment, Content Analysis, Educational Indicators
An Analysis of Three States' Alignment between Language Arts and Mathematics Standards and Alternate Assessments
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Flowers, Claudia; Browder, Diane; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn – Exceptional Children, 2006
Recent guidelines for No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB; 2001) permit the use of alternate achievement standards for counting up to 1% of students with significant cognitive disabilities as proficient in adequate yearly progress (AYP) calculations. This provision increases the importance of assessing the technical quality of alternate…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, State Standards, Academic Standards
How States Define Alternate Assessments for Students with Disabilities.
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Browder, Diane; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Flowers, Claudia; Karvonen, Meagan; Spooner, Fred; Algozzine, Robert – 2002
Since the passage of the 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, inclusion of all students with disabilities in accountability systems has been mandatory. By 2001, school personnel began to understand that alternate assessment needed to focus on students' performance on state standards, and nearly all states had created…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Definitions, Disabilities
Curricular Implications of Alternate Assessments.
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Browder, Diane; Flowers, Claudia; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Karvonen, Meagan; Spooner, Fred; Algozzine, Robert – 2002
The 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) required that states provide alternate assessments for students unable to participate in the statewide assessment systems (e.g., those with severe disabilities). IDEA mandated that alternate assessments access the general curriculum. This study examined the curricular…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Content Validity, Curriculum, Disabilities
Teachers' Perceptions of Alternate Assessments
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Flowers, Claudia; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Browder, Diane; Spooner, Fred – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2005
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' perceptions of alternate assessments. A total of 983 teachers from five states participated in this study. The results suggest that teachers tended to agree that their students should be included in school accountability, but they did not agree with most items assessing the educational benefits of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Alternative Assessment, Accountability, Teacher Attitudes
What We Know and Need To Know about Alternate Assessment.
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Browder, Diane M.; Spooner, Fred; Algozzine, Robert; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Flowers, Claudia; Karvonen, Meagan – Exceptional Children, 2003
This article reviews promises, practices, and provisos of alternative assessment as a basis for illustrating what is known about measuring progress of students with disabilities in statewide assessment programs. Nineteen data-based studies have been used to begin to document the effects of alternative assessment. However, it is concluded there are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Alternative Assessment, Disabilities