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Download full textAlbus, Deb; Thurlow, Martha L.; Lazarus, Sheryl S. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2011
This report examines publicly reported participation and performance data for the alternate assessment based on modified achievement standards (AA-MAS). The authors' analysis of these data included all states publicly reporting AA-MAS data, regardless of whether they had received approval to use the results for Title I accountability calculations.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Accountability, Academic Standards, Statistical Analysis
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Direct linkLazarus, Sheryl S.; Cormier, Damien C.; Thurlow, Martha L. – Remedial and Special Education, 2011
The characteristics of a state's accommodations policy may affect a state's decision about whether to develop an alternate assessment based on modified achievement standards (AA-MAS). A very restrictive accommodations policy may make it more difficult for some students to participate in the state's regular assessment used for accountability…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Discriminant Analysis, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Testing Accommodations
Bremer, Chris; Albus, Debra; Thurlow, Martha L. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2011
This is the twelfth annual report by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) analyzing public reporting of disaggregated assessment data for elementary and secondary students with disabilities in the United States. Reporting disaggregated performance data at the state and district level to the public is required of states by the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Alternative Assessment, Outcomes of Education, Disabilities
Thurlow, Martha L.; Cormier, Damien C.; Vang, Miong – Exceptionality, 2009
States are working to improve their graduation rates, in part because of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) high school accountability requirements. This is taking place at the same time that 26 states have implemented exit examinations to determine, in part, whether a student has gained the knowledge and skills to earn a standard diploma and be prepared…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Exit Examinations, Accountability, High School Equivalency Programs
Barrera, Manuel; Shyyan, Vitaliy; Liu, Kristi K.; Thurlow, Martha L. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2008
This study, conducted in 2005-06, identified teacher-initiated instructional strategies currently preferred by practitioners who daily work with English language learners (ELLs) with disabilities. The findings generated in this study could potentially confirm strategies identified in the authors' earlier work (Thurlow et al., 2004) through the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs, Second Language Learning
Johnson, David R.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Stout, Karen Evans; Mavis, Ann – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2007
In response to public demands for better-quality high school graduates and to requirements of No Child Left Behind legislation, states have developed a variety of policies such as high-stakes exit exams and diploma options. Additionally, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997, students with disabilities must be…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, High Stakes Tests, High School Graduates, Exit Examinations
Thompson, Sandra J.; Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Clapper, Ann T.; Thurlow, Martha L. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2006
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) and the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA 904) raise the achievement expectations of all students, including students with disabilities. These requirements place new responsibilities on institutions of higher education and state educational agencies…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Objectives, State Standards, Educational Improvement
Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Thompson, Sandra J.; Thurlow, Martha L. – Educational Policy Reform Research Institute, 2006
Historically many students with disabilities did not participate in accountability systems. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) requires that students in all targeted subgroups, including students with disabilities, have the opportunity to learn challenging material that is linked to content standards and to participate in statewide…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Special Education Teachers, Accountability, Special Education
Thompson, Sandra J.; Johnstone, Christopher J.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Clapper, Ann T. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2004
Literacy is a term that has been defined many ways, with definitions ranging from those that are very narrow to those that are very broad. Among the more wide sweeping was that of the 1991 National Literacy Act, which defined literacy as a wide range of language tasks associated with everyday life, including those "necessary to function on…
Descriptors: Definitions, State Standards, Literacy, Reading Skills
