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NCEO Technical Reports: On the Road to Accountability: Reporting Outcomes for Students with Disabilities (#32)Formats: OnlineThis year 2001 report reviews state education documents for the year 1999-2000 to determine the public availability of important student outcome information on students with disabilities. The report describes state assessment systems, the reporting of participation and performance results, and the achievement gaps between students with disabilities and the total population for reading and math at select grades. It concludes with recommendations for public reporting.
Published: December 2001
NCEO State Surveys: 2001 State Special Education Outcomes - A Report on State Activities at the Beginning of a New DecadeThis year 2001 report summarizes a survey given to all states that addresses participation and performance of students with disabilities in statewide assessments and the first year of administering alternate assessments and including the results in accountability systems. The report is intended to help states view their own progress.
Published: June 2001
NCEO Out-of-Level Testing Project Reports: Past and Present Understandings of Out-of-Level Testing: A Research Synthesis (#1)Formats: OnlineThis year 2000 report reviews the historical development for out-of-level testing, summarizes how the literature defines out-of-level testing, explains how it has been studied, gives the rationale used to support its use, and addresses what is missing from the literature.
Published: May 2000
NCEO Minnesota Assessment Project Reports: Unintended Consequences of the Minnesota Basic Standards Tests: Do the Data Answer the Questions Yet? (#23)Formats: OnlineThis year 2000 report presents a literature review on the effects of statewide testing policies on the education of students with and without disabilities to examine whether the perception of increased referrals for special education assessments or 504 Accommodation Plans at the local level was present in published research.
Published: January 2000- NCEO Minnesota Assessment Project Reports: Feasibility and Practicality of a Decision Making Tool for Standards Testing of Students with Limited English Proficiency (#22)Formats: Online
This year 1999 report describes a decision-making tool to provide educators of English learner and bilingual students with the most current participation and test accommodation guidelines for informed decisions. The report describes the tool and reports on the results of a study examining the tool's feasibility.
Published: December 1999 - NCEO Minnesota Assessment Project Reports: Participation and Performance of Students from non-English Language Backgrounds: Minnesota's 1996 Basic Standards Tests in Reading and Math (#17)Formats: Online
This year 1999 report summarizes the participation and performance of students from non-English language backgrounds taking the Minnesota Basic Standards Tests in Reading and Math for 1996.
Published: January 1999 - NCEO Minnesota Assessment Project Reports: Cambodian, Hmong, Lao, Spanish-Speaking, and Vietnamese Parents and Students Speak Out on Minnesota's Basic Standards Tests (#12)Formats: Online
This year 1997 report summarizes focus groups conducted on English learner participation in Minnesota's Basic Standards Tests involving English learners and their parents from the following language groups: Cambodian, Hmong, Lao, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
Published: May 1997 - NCEO Policy Directions: Increasing the Participation of Students with Disabilities in State and District Assessments (#6)Formats: Online
This year 1997 report identifies considerations for increasing the participation of students with disabilities in state and district assessments. These include clarifying who should participate in these assessments, what principles should guide decisions about who participates, and how these considerations apply to graduation exams. The report ends with recommendations with steps to follow for aligning the principles to accountability systems.
Published: May 1997 
NCEO Synthesis Reports: Opportunity-to-Learn Standards (#14)Formats: PDFThis report provides an overview of the use of the term "Opportunity to learn (OTL) standards in recent (1994) legislation, alternative perspectives on OTL standards, and state practices in the implementation of OTL standards. We examine how students with disabilities are treated in discussion of OTL standards, how people propose to measure OTL, and major issues surrounding the concept of OTL standards. Implications for students with disabilities are discussed, and we conclude with several recommendations.
Published: July 1994
NCEO Synthesis Reports: Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities: A Review of the Literature (#4)Formats: PDFThis report is a review of literature (1993) pertaining to testing accommodations for people with disabilities. It draws on a wide range of information, from empirical studies conducted by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and by the American College Testing (ACT) Program, to policies for state assessment programs. Addressed in this report are policy and legal considerations, technical concerns, minimum competency and certification/licensure testing efforts, existing standards and accommodations allowed in state assessment systems.
Published: March 1993- Alternate AssessmentsFormats: Online
This page provides information on alternate assessments based on alternate academic achievement standards for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities.
Published: 2021-02-01 - Alternate Assessments for Students with DisabilitiesFormats: Online
This page has links to state policies on state alternate assessments based on alternate academic achievement standards for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities.
Published: 2021-02-01 - Assessment Participation of Students with DisabilitiesFormats: Online
This page has links to states with assessment participation policies that include information on students with disabilities.
Published: 2021-02-01 - Standards-Based IEPsFormats: Online
This page provides information on standards-based IEPs.
Published: 2021-02-01 - State Public Assessment Reports for Students with DisabilitiesFormats: Online
This page has links to state pages with assessment reports that include disaggregated data for students with disabilities.
Published: 2021-02-01 - V2-1: Discussing Common Misperceptions about AccommodationsFormats: Online
A special education teacher and math teacher discuss common misperceptions about accommodations. The special education teacher explains how accommodations "level the playing field" for students with disabilities rather than giving them an unfair advantage. The teachers then discuss which accommodations may be useful for the student.
Published: 2014-05-05 - V2-3: General Education Teacher Communicating with ParentsFormats: Online
A math teacher calls a parent to discuss a student's difficulties in the classroom. They talk about the possible use of accommodations to help the student succeed in the classroom.
Published: 2014-05-05 - V4-1: Preparing for Assessment AccommodationsFormats: Online
The special education and math teacher talk about a student's accommodations needs for an upcoming state test.
Published: 2014-05-05 - V4-3: Involving Students for Assessment AccommodationsFormats: Online
A student and her special education teacher talk about the use of a read aloud accommodation in math on the state test.
Published: 2014-05-05 - 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