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NCEO Minnesota Assessment Project Reports: Accommodations for Students with Disabilities: Guidelines from States with Graduation Exams (#5)Formats: OnlineThis year 1996 report examines accommodation policies in states with high stakes assessments and describes the accommodations allowed for students with disabilities.
Published: August 1996- NCEO Minnesota Assessment Project Reports: Focus Group Input on Students with Limited English Proficiency and Minnesota's Basic Standards Tests (#4)Formats: Online
This year 1996 report summarizes information from focus groups conducted to address the participation of English learners in Minnesota's first administration of the Basic Standards Tests in spring 1996.
Published: August 1996 - NCEO Minnesota Assessment Project Reports: Focus Group Input on Students with Disabilities and Minnesota's Basic Standards Tests (#3)Formats: Online
This year 1996 report summarizes focus group input on the participation of students with disabilities on Minnesota's Basic Standards Tests.
Published: August 1996 
NCEO Policy Directions: Opportunity to Learn Standards (#4)Formats: OnlineThis 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: Educational Accountability for Students with Disabilities (#3)Formats: Online
This year 1994 report outlines steps that educators can take towards a new and inclusive accountability system with consistent procedures for all students, including students with disabilities. These steps include considering alternative approaches to accountability, ensuring educators have data needed to demonstrate that education is working for students with disabilities, and ways to overcome potential barriers to obtaining these data. The report concludes with specific recommendations.
Published: November 1994 - NCEO Policy Directions: Students with Disabilities and Educational Standards: Recommendations for Policy and Practice (#2)Formats: Online
This year 1994 report describes various types of standards in education (i.e., content, performance, opportunity-to-learn, and assessment) and summarizes issues when applying these standards to all students, including students with disabilities. The report concludes with recommendations for policies addressing content and performance standards.
Published: May 1994 - NCEO Policy Directions: Guidelines for Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Large-Scale Assessments (#1)Formats: Online
This year 1994 report provides background on how students with disabilities have been excluded from large scale assessments and provides recommendations for the development of guidelines and monitoring practices that promote full participation of students with disabilities in large-scale assessment programs. It recommends guidelines for policies that address inclusion, accommodations and adaptations, and monitoring of implementation of these policies.
Published: May 1994 - NCEO Style Guidelines: A Reference Tool for Writing Reports, APA Style, and NCEO Publication SpecificationsFormats: Online
This style guide was developed to help NCEO and related projects staff prepare the final copy of their documents. This style guide provides directions for creating heading levels, tables, figures, the use of color and contrast, and more. This style guide focuses on accessibility and current standards for following ADA Title II rules. Guidance is also giving for following APA standards and making PowerPoints.
Published: February 2026 - 1% Convening Webinar TrainingFormats: Online
This webinar provided information on how to be an effective facilitator at the 1% Cap National Convening.
Published: 2018-10-12 - Using Local Assessment Data to Measure Progress Towards The State-Identified Measurable Results (SIMR)Formats: Online
Participating states Louisiana, Guam, and Kansas address: Data use practices at the state, district, and local levels, Stakeholders involvement, and Advice they have to offer other states based on their experiences.
Published: 2018-05-22 
NCEO Out-of-Level Testing Project Reports: Educators' Opinions About Out-of-Level Testing: Moving Beyond Perceptions (#15)This year 2004 report documents the pro and con arguments given on out-of-level testing using a survey with teachers and administrators. The report describes their perceptions and opinions about the use of out-of-level testing for students with disabilities in large-scale assessment programs used for accountability purposes.
Published: September 2004- NCEO Out-of-Level Testing Project Reports: States' Procedures for Ensuring Out-of-Level Test Instrument Quality (#14)
This year 2004 report describes a study on how states ensure that out-of-level tests used in their states are of appropriate quality. The report draws on narrative data from technical information on states' large-scale assessment systems and interviews from state assessment directors or others with comparable knowledge about the state's large-scale assessment.
Published: September 2004 - NCEO Out-of-Level Testing Project Reports: Rapid Changes, Repeated Challenges: States' Out-of-Level Testing Policies for 2003-2004 (#13)
This year 2004 report summarizes a 2003-2004 state policy review of out-of-level testing, and compares these findings to a prior policy review on out-of-level testing conducted in 2000-2001. The first policy review in 2000-2001 included 12 states, and the updated review includes 17 states that allow out-of-level testing.
Published: September 2004 - NCEO Out-of-Level Testing Project Reports: Reporting Out-of-Level Test Scores: Are These Students Included in Accountability Programs? (#10)
This year 2003 report describes the extent to which scores for students with disabilities tested out-of-level were reported publicly in state accountability documents for the years 1999-2001. The report includes results of follow-up telephone calls with state personnel to clarify the results of the document review. The report concludes with three challenges to reporting out-of-level testing data.
Published: October 2003 - NCEO Technical Reports: State Graduation Requirements for Students With and Without Disabilities (#24)
This year 1999 report documents state graduation requirements based on a survey study of assessment directors of 50 states and the District of Columbia. The National Center on Educational Outcomes and the National Transition Network collaborated in this study. The report describes what is required for students with and without disabilities to earn exit documents in each state, including standard diplomas, certificates of completion, IEP diplomas and honor diplomas, and provides details about exam and coursework modifications that states allow for students with disabilities. The report offers recommendations for policymakers as they consider setting policy for graduation requirements.
Published: April 1999 - NCEO Framework for Educational AccountabilityFormats: Online
This 1998 paper describes a revised framework for educational accountability, which started with outcomes and indicators. The revised framework can be adapted for system-wide or individual accountability, and how it can work in concert with the National Association of State Directors of Special Education's "balanced system of accountability."
Published: May 1998 - Accountability for the Results of Educating Students with DisabilitiesFormats: Online
This report from 1998 describes the findings of a conference NCEO convened to define issues and develop recommendations related to state and district-wide assessments and accountability needed to attain the benefits of the 1997 IDEA amendments and achieve better results for children with disabilities.
Published: April 1998 - NCEO Maryland/Kentucky State Assessment Project: Reporting School Performance in the Maryland and Kentucky Accountability Systems: What Scores Mean and How They Are Used (#2)Formats: Online
A report from the past Maryland-Kentucky-NCEO Assessment Project, a federally funded effort supported, in part, by a grant to the Maryland State Department of Education.
Published: September 1997 - NCEO Brief: Cross-agency Collaboration to Improve Assessments and Outcomes for Students with Disabilities (#36)
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.
Published: October 2024 - Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with the Foundations of Math While at HomeFormats: Online
This video describes ways parents of students with disabilities can help their child with the foundations of math while at home. The video discusses why it is important to focus on foundations of math at home, how to do this, and what support parents can ask for from the school. The video gives tips on making modifications for different disabilities, and provides sources for more information.
Published: March 2021