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Download full textKathy Strunk; Andrew R. Hinkle; Sheryl S. Lazarus; Carol Seay; Kascinda Fleming – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2024
For many years state education agencies (SEAs) have sought to create assessment systems that include all students, including students with disabilities. In order to improve outcomes for students with disabilities, there is an urgent need for cross-agency collaboration between special education and assessment offices, but other offices (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Student Evaluation, Students with Disabilities, State Departments of Education
Marx, Teri A.; Miller, Faith G. – National Center on Intensive Intervention, 2020
The purpose of this guide is to provide an overview of behavioral progress monitoring and goal setting to inform data-driven decision making within tiered support models and individualized education programs (IEPs). The guide covers: (1) components of quality behavioral IEP goals; (2) how to know which behavior(s) should be addressed through an…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Decision Making, Individualized Education Programs, Behavior Problems
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2020
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) strives to provide every student with a positive and productive assessment experience, generating results that are a fair and accurate estimate of each student's achievement. Further, Smarter Balanced is building on a framework of accessibility for all students, including English…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, English Language Learners, Students with Disabilities
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2019
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) strives to provide every student with a positive and productive assessment experience, generating results that are a fair and accurate estimate of each student's achievement. Further, Smarter Balanced is building on a framework of accessibility for all students, including English…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, English Language Learners, Students with Disabilities
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2018
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) strives to provide every student with a positive and productive assessment experience, generating results that are a fair and accurate estimate of each student's achievement. Further, Smarter Balanced is building on a framework of accessibility for all students, including English…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, English Language Learners, Disabilities
Direct linkTannacito, Dan J. – TESOL International Association, 2013
An administrator, broadly conceived, is a person who has authority to lead and manage people, practices, materials, and policies in an educational unit. Dan Tannacito shows teachers the pathway to becoming English language program administrators (ELPAs) and the myriad benefits they can derive. Most may be surprised to see that they are already on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Alberta Education, 2009
Alberta Education provides programming support and funding to school authorities to develop and implement special education programming for ECS children and students in grades 1 to 12. "Special Education Coding Criteria 2009/2010" outlines criteria within specific categories to help school authorities identify those children and students…
Descriptors: Individualized Programs, Criteria, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Special Educational Services Branch. – 1995
This volume is the third in a series (developed in response to a needs assessment survey of special educators in Alberta, Canada) providing practical suggestions about instructional strategies, classroom management, preparing individual program plans, and understanding special needs. This volume presents a process for development of Individualized…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Disabilities, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Perie, Marianne, Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2010
For lower-achieving students with disabilities, effective and appropriate alternate assessment based on modified achievement standards (AA-MAS) can open the door to greater expectations and opportunities. State policymakers have the option of providing certain students who have disabilities with AA-MAS aligned with grade-level content--and now…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Low Achievement, Disabilities, Academic Standards
Christensen, L.; Carver, W.; VanDeZande, J.; Lazarus, S. – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2011
The Council of Chief State School Officers' "Accommodations Manual: How to Select, Administer, and Evaluate the Use of Accommodations for Instruction and Assessment of Students with Disabilities" was first developed to establish guidelines for states to use for the selection, administration, and evaluation of accommodations for…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Achievement, Guides, Program Development
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2004
The North Carolina Alternate Assessment Portfolio (NCAAP) is a year-long, performance-based assessment process that involves a representative and deliberate collection of student work/information that allows the user(s) to make judgments about what a student knows and is able to do. This includes the progress that has been made in those goals…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Individualized Education Programs, Alternative Assessment, Portfolio Assessment
Peer reviewedWaxman, Hersholt C.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1985
This study synthesizes published and unpublished research on the effects of adaptive education on student outcomes. The study found adaptive education affects student outcomes positively and suggests that tailoring instruction to individual students is more effective than traditional educational methods. (MD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1984
The report documents the 1981-82 and 1982-83 cycles of School-Based Support Team (SBST) services administered by the New York City Public Schools Division of Special Education. SBSTs include school social workers, psychologists, and educational evaluators as core members and are intended to provide consultation and support to regular education…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Criteria, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Chapman, Elaine K.; And Others – 1983
The manual is intended to help Indiana secondary school principals in the delivery of special education services within their buildings. Introductory sections cover the basis of Indiana's special education law and outlines state and federal definitions of 10 handicapping conditions. The next seven sections provide administrative guidelines on the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Disabilities, Due Process, Individualized Education Programs
PDF pending restorationFlorida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Bureau of Instructional Support and Community Services. – 2000
This paper is intended to assist school districts in Florida in the implementation of the 1999 Sunshine State Standards for Special Diploma. First, the specific state rules related to student performance standards, course descriptions, and graduation requirements are cited. Twenty-five questions and answers present the guidelines, which address:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alternative Assessment, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities
