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Exit Exams, High-Stakes Testing, and Students with Disabilities: A Persistent Challenge
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Yell, Mitchell L.; Katsiyannis, Antonis; Collins, James C.; Losinski, Mickey – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2012
The demands for accountability in education have led to an increase in high-stakes testing practices in public schools. Accountability can be seen at the high school level in the use of exit examinations (hereafter "exit exams") that students must pass to receive a diploma and graduate from high school. One of the most challenging issues…
Descriptors: Disabilities, High Stakes Tests, Accountability, Exit Examinations
The Effects and Perceived Consequences of Testing Accommodations on Math and Science Performance Assessments
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Elliott, Stephen N.; Kratochwill, Thomas R.; McKevitt, Brian C.; Malecki, Christine Kerres – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
The present study examined the effect accommodations have on test results of students with and without disabilities and documented experts' judgments about the appropriateness of testing accommodations. Test score data were collected from 218 fourth-grade students with and without disabilities on mathematics and science performance tasks and from…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Performance Based Assessment, Scores, Context Effect
Recommendations for Accommodations: Implications of (In)consistency
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Ketterlin-Geller, Leanne R. – Remedial and Special Education, 2007
When accurately assigned and administered appropriately, testing accommodations help ameliorate the effects of personal characteristics that limit access to critical information and prevent a person from demonstrating his or her true abilities in the tested domain. Inaccurate assignment or misuse of accommodations may counteract the benefits of…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Individualized Instruction, Individualized Education Programs, Error of Measurement
Identifying Appropriate Test Accommodations for Students with Learning Disabilities
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Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas; Capizzi, Andrea M. – Focus on Exceptional Children, 2005
This article provides an overview of identification of appropriate testing accommodations for students with learning disabilities (LD). First it defines the concept of testing accommodations and review research on test accommodations commonly used with students with LD. Next it examines the validity and fairness in accommodations, as well as the…
Descriptors: Identification, Educational Objectives, Audio Equipment, Testing
Title I--Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged; Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Final Rule. Federal Register, Part IV, Department of Education, 34 CFR Parts 200 and 300
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National Archives and Records Administration, 2007
The Secretary amends the regulations governing programs administered under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) (referred to in these regulations as the Title I program) and the regulations governing programs under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Related Services (Special Education), Elementary Secondary Education, Disabilities
School Accommodations and Modifications. Alliance Action Information Sheets
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Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers, 2006
Some students with disabilities need accommodations or modifications in their educational program in order to be successful in school. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and its regulations do not offer a definition for an accommodation or modification. However, there is general agreement as to what the terms mean. An…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Disabilities, Individualized Instruction, Definitions