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- Title: Alternate Assessment: Have We Learned Anything New?(Report)
- Author : Exceptional Children
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 250 KB
Description
Large-scale educational assessment has become an increasingly important strategy over the past decade for holding schools accountable for the teaching and learning of all students. One element of large-scale educational assessment within each state is that state's alternate assessment system. As a result of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act of 1997 (IDEA), all students are required to be included in state and district educational assessments [612(a)(17)(A)]. For those students who cannot participate in the general assessment system, even with appropriate accommodations, an alternate assessment is required [612(a)(17)(A)(i-ii)]. IDEA 1997 allows for the development of alternate assessments within states to ensure students with the most significant cognitive disabilities are included in state and district assessments in a way that is fair and equitable; these requirements are reiterated in the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA, 2004) and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB, 2001). In 2003, Browder, Spooner, Algozzine, et al. published a review of empirical studies related to alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS). This review included 19 databased articles published in peer-refereed journals or in press through December of 2002. Their review provided a basis for illustrating what educational researchers knew and needed to know about alternate assessments in relation to measuring the progress of students (i.e., achievement) with the most significant cognitive disabilities through large-scale educational assessment systems.
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