National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
The National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) focuses on the inclusion of students with disabilities, English learners, and English learners with disabilities in instruction and assessments. The scope of NCEO’s work includes issues related to accessibility of assessments across the comprehensive assessment system including formative assessment practices, classroom-based assessments, diagnostic assessments, interim assessments, and summative assessments.
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This Brief focuses on collaboration between special education and assessment offices, but other offices (e.g., curriculum and instruction, accountability) may also need to be involved. The Brief describes the reasons for collaboration and its benefits, provides suggestions for who needs to be involved, and provides specific examples of successful collaboration.
NCEO Newsletter: October 2024 issue
NCEO’s October 2024 newsletter features several new NCEO publications: several reports published by a project affiliated with NCEO that share findings of research studies about students who shifted from the alternate assessment to the general assessment, another about how states address the federal requirement that 95% of students participate in state assessments used for accountability, the unintended consequences of improved accessibility on state tests, and one about the accommodations research literature.
State Assessments for English Learners with Disabilities: State Data Display Templates (Tool 2) 
This State Data Display Templates tool is designed to provide state education agencies with templates to use to display state assessment participation and student characteristics data for English learners with disabilities. The templates are designed for a closer look at State assessment data but may be adapted for use with other types of assessments.