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- Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with Math While at HomeFormats: Online
This video describes ways parents of students with significant cognitive disabilities can help expand their child’s math skills at home. The video discusses why it is important to focus on 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 - Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with the Foundations of Reading at HomeFormats: Online
This video describes ways parents of students with disabilities can help their child with the foundations of reading while at home. The video discusses why it is important to focus on foundations of reading 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 - Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with Reading at HomeFormats: Online
This video describes ways parents of students with significant cognitive disabilities can help their child expand reading skills while at home. The video discusses why it is important to focus on reading 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 - Assessment SSIPs/SIMRs State Policies WebpageFormats: Online
This page includes links to state policies for Assessment State Systemic Improvement Plans (SSIPs)/State Identified Measurable Result (SIMRs).
Published: 2021 - Educator EvaluationFormats: Online
This page provides a brief overview on educator evaluation.
Published: 2021-02-01 - English Language Proficiency (ELP) AssessmentsFormats: Online
This page provides information on English language proficiency assessments.
Published: 2021-02-01 - English Learners (ELs)Formats: Online
This page provides an overview on the student population of English learners.
Published: 2021-02-01 - General Assessments of Academic ContentFormats: Online
This page provides information on state general content assessments.
Published: 2021-02-01 - Standards and AccountabilityFormats: Online
This page provides an overview on standards and accountability.
Published: 2021-02-01 - Students With DisabilitiesFormats: Online
This page provides an overview on the population of students with disabilities.
Published: 2021-02-01 - Test SecurityFormats: Online
This page provides information on test security for assessments.
Published: 2021-02-01 - Universal Design of AssessmentsFormats: Online
This page provides an overview on universal design for assessments.
Published: 2021-02-01 - State Defined Alternate DiplomasFormats: Online
Sheryl Lazarus presented "State Defined Alternate Diplomas” in an NCEO and NTACT webinar.
Published: 2017-11-17 - NCEO Policy Directions: Recommendations for Addressing Standards and Assessments on State and District IEP Forms (#12)Formats: Online
This year 2001 report provides specific recommendations for how to make IEPs reflect goals and services that support students with disabilities in learning toward high educational standards. The report provides background on IEPs before IDEA 1997 and changes since that time. Recommendations address topics such as adding alternate assessments to IEP forms, including implications of assessment decisions, offering statewide training on standards-based IEPs and assessment options in easily accessed locations, and clearly labeling IEPs so districts know what information is required or recommended.
Published: March 2001 - NCEO Maryland/Kentucky State Assessment Project: Accommodations, Modifications, and Alternates for Instruction and Assessment (#5)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: December 1999 - Accountability for the Results of Educating Students with Disabilities: Assessment Conference Report on the New Assessment Provisions of the 1997 Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education ActFormats: Online
A year 1998 conference report on the assessment provisions of the 1997 Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), and its component Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) requested that NCEO convene a working conference in Washington DC to define issues and develop recommendations related to State and district-wide assessments and accountability. This report describes the findings of this conference.
Published: April 1998 - NCEO Maryland/Kentucky State Assessment Project: Performance Trends and Use of Accommodations on a Statewide Assessment: Students with Disabilities in the KIRIS On-Demand Assessments from 1992-93 through 1995-96 (#3)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: April 1998 - 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 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 Policy Directions: Alternate Assessments for Students with Disabilities (#5)Formats: Online
This year 1996 report describes options for developing an alternate assessment for students unable to participate in the general district and state assessments that are used for accountability purposes. The focus is on large-scale accountability systems, rather than individual accountability measures, that create information on how the school, district, or state is doing in terms of student performance.
Published: October 1996