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Demystifying Statewide Standardized Assessments: Making Assessments Accessible for Students With Disabilities and English Learners
Students with disabilities and English learners may receive changes to the test administration so they can show what they know and can do. Tests also...
The Formative Assessment Practices Landscape for Students with Disabilities: An Analysis of State Definitions and Practices, 2021
This report outlines the approaches that state education agencies (SEAs) have taken in defining and using formative assessment practices, including practices to explicitly support students...
1% Assessment Participation Cap on Students with Significant Disabilities
This update provides an overview of the 1% assessment participation cap, which is designed to limit the number of students with disabilities who are assessed...
Proceedings of the 1% Cap National Convening: Supporting States in Implementing ESSA’s 1% State-level Cap on Participation of Students in the AA-AAAS
More than 200 individuals gathered in Boston, MA on October 18 and 19, 2018 for the 1% Cap National Convening. The purpose of the 1%...
Accountability Requirements for Subgroups of Students
This Update provides an overview of ESSA requirements for reporting data for subgroups of students.
Better Tests, Fewer Barriers: Advances in Accessibility through PARCC and Smarter Balanced
As the title implies, this Center for American Progress publication provides an overview of the general movement toward increased accessibility for students with disabilities (SWDs)...
Lessons Learned About Instruction from Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in College and Career Ready Assessments
The brief was prepared in response to the challenges students with disabilities have experienced with the new assessments. Designed to offer information coupled with these...
Principles and Characteristics of Inclusive Assessment Systems in a Changing Assessment Landscape
"This document is the fourth in a series of Principles documents produced by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO). NCEO revisited and revised its...
When Does Accountability Work?
In this study, the authors studied long-term effects of high-stakes testing in Texas, comparing high school student performance to college enrollment, college completion rates, and adult earnings. More...
Items in Action: Implementing Items in the Classroom – One State’s Perspective (NCSC Writing AA-AAS)
This resource describes Arizona's efforts to change educators' writing expectations and assessments for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities (SWSCD). It describes an initial pilot study and successful...