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- V4-4: Planning for Assessment Accommodations with StudentsFormats: Online
A special education teacher explains to a student receiving a read-aloud accommodation in math what will happen on test day.
Published: 2014-05-05 - V5-1: Evaluating Assessment AccommodationsFormats: Online
The special education teacher meets with the teacher who administered a student's assessment accommodation to discuss the student's test day experience.
Published: 2014-05-05 - V5-2: Meeting with Featured Student after Assessment AccommodationFormats: Online
A special education teacher interviews a student after the state test. The student shares her perspective on whether the accommodation "worked."
Published: 2014-05-05 - V5-3: Improving Assessment AccommodationsFormats: Online
The special education teacher meets with the district test coordinator. They talk about the student's experience on test day and possible changes to make next year.
Published: 2014-05-05 
NCEO Synthesis Reports: Results of a Cognitive Interview Study of Immediate Feedback and Revision Opportunities for Students with Disabilities in Large Scale Assessments (#92)A report covering a study that was part of a larger research project originally designed to investigate an approach to Alternate Assessments with Modified Achievement Standards that provides immediate feedback and revision opportunities for students when they answer test items. After answering an item, students would receive feedback about whether the answer was correct or incorrect and would be given additional chances to correct their answer (for partial credit). This particular study employed cognitive interviews to determine whether: (a) Feedback and Revision had a qualitative impact on student interaction with the assessment (i.e., students' interview responses suggest that the feedback and revision feature had an impact on those students' success on the test), and (b) there were qualitative differences between groups of students with and without disabilities (i.e., students' interview responses suggest that the utility and effects of feedback and revision differ for these two groups).
Published: December 2013
Moving Your Numbers WebsiteFormats: OnlineA website presenting Moving Your Numbers, which provides examples of real districts -- from small rural communities to large urban centers -- that are positively affecting the performance of all children, including students with disabilities, through collective and focused actions of adults. While different in demographics, each of these districts has publicly committed to improving teaching and learning for every child through effective data use and changing the ways in which adults across the system work and learn together.
Published: 2012
PARA Accessible Reading Assessment Reports: Accommodations for State Reading Assessments: Policies Across the NationA report summarizing accommodation policies for the content area of reading. Because of the increase in the use of computer-based assessments, the authors also examined whether reading assessment policies varied as a function of test format. Two research questions are addressed in this report: (1) What did state accommodation policies specify for individual accommodations on state reading assessments? And (2) Did different formats (computer vs. paper and pencil) have different accommodations policies for state reading assessments? This analysis of states' accommodation policies for their reading assessments indicates the importance of understanding the intended constructs to be assessed by the state reading assessment. Policies indicate that there are different perspectives on the constructs, and that further explication of the content to be assessed would be beneficial.
Published: September 2011
NCEO Brief: Developing Common Accommodations Policies Discussion Points for Consortia (#2)A brief -- the second in a series for the Race to the Top Assessment Consortia -- addressing the need for the Consortia to develop shared accommodations policies. The publication presents information that shows the variability in use of accommodations and policies across the states within each Consortium. The brief identifies ways to address the different perspectives on accommodations that underlie this variability, and provides several questions for the Consortia to use as discussion points as they develop their common accommodations policies.
Published: May 2011
NCEO Synthesis Reports: A Disability Perspective on Five Years of Education Reform (#22)Formats: OnlineThis report provides a summary of policy trends of the five years preceding 1995, viewed through a lens focusing on the implications of policy shifts for the educational outcomes of students with disabilities.
Published: December 1995
NCEO Synthesis Reports: Why We Can't Say Much About the Status of Students with Disabilities During Education Reform (#21)Formats: OnlineThis 1995 report synthesizes the results of National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) activities that focused on determining whether secondary data analysis of state and/or national data collection programs could produce policy-relevant reports on the status of children and youth with disabilities. Recommendations are offered for improving the collection and reporting of information in state and national data collection programs.
Published: August 1995
NCEO Synthesis Reports: A Perspective on Education and Assessment in Other Nations: Where Are Students with Disabilities? (#19)Formats: OnlineFindings about the exclusion of students with disabilities in U. S. assessments necessarily lead to questions about the status of students with disabilities in international comparison assessments and in the assessments used in other nations. Are students with disabilities included in these assessments? Are appropriate accommodations used during the assessments? When are "exclusion rates" reported? Do all countries start from the same base of "all" students? The purpose of this 1995 report is to address these kinds of questions. We do this by examining students with disabilities in international comparison studies and in assessments in each of 14 nations, including the U. S., that are among those included in previous or current international comparative studies.
Published: April 1995- Accommodations Toolkit: Signed Administration: States' Accessibility Policies, 2023Formats: Online
This summary of states’ accessibility policies for signed administration is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 12/16/2024 - Accommodations Toolkit: Recorded Oral Delivery: States’ Accessibility Policies, 2023Formats: Online
This summary of states’ accessibility policies for recorded oral delivery is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 12/16/2024 - Accommodations Toolkit: Large Print: ResearchFormats: Online
This fact sheet on large print is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO). It summarizes information and research findings on the use of large print as an accessibility feature or accommodation.
Published: 6/08/2022 - Accommodations Toolkit: Recorded Oral Delivery: ResearchFormats: Online
This fact sheet on recorded oral delivery is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO). It summarizes information and research findings on the use of recorded oral delivery as an accessibility feature or accommodation.
Published: 4/5/2022 - Accommodations Toolkit: Calculator: ResearchFormats: Online
This fact sheet on calculator is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO). It summarizes information and research findings on the use of a calculator as an accessibility feature or accommodation.
Published: 2/10/2022 - NCEO Reports: An Updated State Guide to Universally Designed Assessments (#431)
This Guide is an update to the State Guide to Universally Designed Assessments that was originally published by NCEO in 2006. It provides a brief overview of what a universally designed assessment is, followed by a set of steps for states to consider when designing and developing, or revising, their summative assessments. The focus of this Guide is states’ summative assessments—general content assessments of reading/language arts, mathematics, science, and other content areas; alternate assessments based on alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS); English language proficiency (ELP) assessments; and alternate-ELP assessments.
Published: February 2022 - NCEO Brief: Related Services Providers: Important Contributors to the Accommodations Decision-Making Process (#27)
Related service providers include speech-language pathologists, audiologists, psychologists, and physical and occupational therapists who provide specialized support to students with disabilities. This Brief suggests strategies for supporting related services providers so that they can participate more confidently as members of Individualized Education Program (IEP) teams when decisions are made about instructional and assessment accommodations.
Published: December 2021 - NCEO Reports: The 95 Percent State Assessment Participation Requirement: Current Landscape, State Challenges, and Recommended Strategies (#429)
This report provides an overview of federal statutory language on student participation in state summative assessments used for accountability as well as the participation requirements for states requesting waivers from the 1% threshold on participation in the alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS). It also includes a review of why it is important that students participate in testing, the reasons why some states have found it challenging to meet the 95% participation rate, and the extent to which states have met federal testing participation requirements.
Published: 9/30/2021 - Accommodations Toolkit: Test breaks: States’ Accessibility Policies, 2020Formats: Online
This summary of states’ accessibility policies for test breaks is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).
Published: 9/30/2021