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  • Webinar: Teacher Perceptions and Perspectives on the Selection and Implementation of Accommodations
    Formats: Free Video

    This webinar presents research on teachers’ preferences for and perceptions of accommodations, as well as suggestions for how to incorporate these into accommodations decision-making (see NCEO Brief #34 PDF). The primary audience for this webinar is State Education Agency (SEA) special education and assessment staff, especially those who are involved in monitoring accommodations.

    Published: 7/3/2024
  • NCEO Brief: The Basics of Accommodations and Modifications (#33)
    Formats: PDF, Online

    The purpose of this Brief is to clarify what accommodations and modifications are for both instruction and assessment for students with disabilities. We also disentangle the use of the term “alternate or modified curriculum” from the meaning of modification used for instruction and assessment.

    Published: January 2024
  • Empowering Families Flyer #2: What are the purposes of the different kinds of tests?
    Formats: PDF

    This flyer define the different types of tests and their objectives. It describes various test purposes, and their role in improving instruction and outcomes for all students. This flyer is part of the Empowering Families Toolkit developed by NCEO to provide accessible materials for parents about assessment topics.

    Published: August 2023
  • What New Special Education Directors Need to know about academic assessments toolkit
    Formats: PDF

    This presentation provides information about a toolkit that will help special education directors fulfill their role in ensuring the participation of students with disabilities in assessments. The toolkit is meant to assist directors in locating information and resources on the website of the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).

    Published: 9/27/2022
  • National Center on Educational Outcomes YouTube Channel
    Formats: Online

    A YouTube channel displaying videos created by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO), which works with states across the country to provide leadership to include students with disabilities and English language learners (ELLs) in large-scale state assessments.

    Published: 2014
  • NCEO Synthesis Reports: A Compilation of States' Guidelines for Including Students with Disabilities in Assessments (#17)
    Formats: PDF

    This report provides a listing of states' written guidelines on the participation of students with disabilities in assessments (1993).

    Published: February 1995
  • Accommodations for English Learners Bibliography
    Formats: Online

    This searchable bibliographic database presents research on English learner accommodations. You can perform a basic search by keywords related to the accommodation, test content area, or student age. Brief summaries of each study are provided, and include information on the accommodation, participants, dependent variable, and major findings of the study.

    Published: 2018
  • Moving Your Numbers: Key Practices Guide
    Formats: PDF

    A guide describing six essential practices for increasing achievement of students with disabilities and other at-risk learners as part of whole-district reform efforts. All six practices are described within the context of the district achievement profiles included in this publication. They are also organized for easier reference as a pull-out insert that provides suggestions for state education agency personnel, district and school personnel (including regional technical assistance providers), and parents/family members who might be interested in learning more about what questions to ask, or how to initiate and/or contribute to a conversation in their state, region, or district that supports all students to learn at higher levels.

    Published: 2012
  • Accommodations for Students with Disabilities Bibliography
    Formats: Online

    This searchable bibliographic database presents research on accommodations for students with disabilities. You can perform a basic search by keywords related to the accommodation, test content area, or student age. Brief summaries of each study are provided, and include information on the accommodation, participants, dependent variable, and major findings of the study.

    Published: 2010
  • NCEO Brief: Interim Assessment Practices for Students with Disabilities (#22)
    Formats: PDF, Online

    This Brief contains a scan of the interim assessment landscape, and is focused on the availability of documentation supporting the appropriateness of these assessments for students with disabilities. The purpose of this Brief is to advise the development of guidance that facilitates improved practices related to the use of interim assessments for students with disabilities.

    Published: April 2021
  • Assessment Today: How We Got Here and Where We are Going
    Formats: Online

    In this presentation Dr. Martha Thurlow, Executive Director of the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) traces the history of the inclusion of students with disabilities in large-scale assessments, addressing the history of assessment for students with disabilities and how the current assessment context and projected future events relate to this history.

    Published: 2016-06-30
  • A Guide to Educational Acronyms: What's in the Alphabet Soup?
    Formats: PDF

    A resource guide providing a glossary of the "alphabet soup" of educational acronyms. NCEO developed this "acronym handbook" as a resource to define, clarify, or remind anyone involved legislative and policy discussions of definitions of routine educational acronyms. This pocket guide will be a useful tool for participants, whether they are state legislators, teachers, parents, or others.

    Published: 2012
  • NCEO Minnesota Assessment Project Reports: 1999 Report on the Participation and Performance of Students with Disabilities on Minnesota's Basic Standards Tests (#29)
    Formats: Online

    This year 2000 report examines the participation and performance of students with disabilities on the Basic Standards Tests since the first statewide administration in 1996, across grades 8 through 11.

    Published: July 2000
  • NCEO Minnesota Assessment Project Reports: Resources: Students with Disabilities in National and Statewide Assessments (#7)
    Formats: Online

    This year 1996 report provides an annotated bibliography on accommodation issues related to students with disabilities in national and state administered assessments.

    Published: August 1996
  • NCEO Synthesis Reports: A Compilation of States' Guidelines for Accommodations in Assessments for Students with Disabilities (#18)
    Formats: PDF

    This report provides a listing of states' written guidelines on accommodations, modifications, and adaptations of assessments for students with disabilities (1993).

    Published: March 1995
  • NCEO Policy Directions: Opportunity to Learn Standards (#4)
    Formats: Online

    This year 1995 report defines opportunity-to-learn standards, addresses the rationale behind them, and makes recommendations for how to reasonably include students with disabilities when considering these standards.

    Published: January 1995
  • NCEO Policy Directions: Including Alternate Assessment Results in Accountability Decisions (#13)
    Formats: Online

    This year 2002 report addresses policy options for including the results of alternate assessments in school accountability systems and provides examples of approaches used in several states.

    Published: June 2002
  • NCEO Minnesota Assessment Project Reports: Data on LEP students in State Education Reports (#26)
    Formats: Online

    This year 2000 report examines the extent that states publicly reported participation and performance data for English learners for school year 1997-1998.

    Published: August 2000
  • NCEO Policy Directions: Reporting Educational Results for Students with Disabilities (#8)
    Formats: Online

    This year 1997 report explains the importance of public reporting of results for students with disabilities and describes principles for good reporting practices. It concludes with several further recommendations.

    Published: July 1997
  • NCEO Minnesota Assessment Project Reports: A Review of the Literature on Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities (#9)
    Formats: Online

    This year 1996 report reviews literature on testing accommodations for students with disabilities, emphasizing studies examining the effects of testing accommodations on the technical integrity of assessment measures.

    Published: August 1996