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Forte, Ellen – State Education Standard, 2020
Students with disabilities and English learners rank high among those facing the greatest academic challenges in public education. Like canaries in the coal mine, these students are often the first to reveal how conditions in schools are not adequately supporting students' academic growth. Their mandated participation in alternate statewide…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Students with Disabilities, English Language Learners, Elementary Secondary Education
Babineau, Kate – Cowen Institute, 2017
Nationally, there are dozens of established indicators of school performance and thousands of possible combinations of those indicators to create an accountability framework. How do policy makers decide which variables are most important? This relates to measurement modeling -- that is, how to incorporate all pieces of the puzzle into a…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Accountability, Best Practices
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Musson, Jane E.; Thomas, Megan K.; Towles-Reeves, Elizabeth; Kearns, Jacqueline F. – Journal of Special Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine all states' participation guidelines for alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) and to analyze these guidelines for common and contrasting themes. State alternate assessment participation guidelines were found for all 50 states. Participation guidelines were coded, and 12…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Disabilities, Guidelines, Qualitative Research