Recent Reports

Moving Your Numbers: Five Districts Share How They Used Assessment and Accountability to Increase Performance for Students With Disabilities as Part of District-wide Improvement - NEW!
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Tennessee Special Education Teacher Survey: Training, Large-scale Testing, and TCAP-MAAS Administration (Technical Report 61) - NEW!
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2008-2009 APR Snapshot #1: State Assessment Participation and Performance of Special Education Students - NEW!
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Performance of Special Education Students: Implications for Common State Assessments (NCEO Brief #5) - NEW!
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Educating Struggling Learners: Reflections on Lessons Learned about Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (Synthesis Report 86) - NEW!
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Characteristics of States' Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards in 2010-2011 (Synthesis Report 85)
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Professional Development to Improve Accommodations Decisions-A Review of the Literature (Synthesis Report 84)
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2009 State Policies on Assessment Participation and Accommodations for Students with Disabilities (Synthesis Report 83)
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2008-09 Publicly Reported Assessment Results for Students with Disabilities and ELLs with Disabilities (Technical Report 59)
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Understanding Subgroups in Common State Assessments: Special Education Students and ELLs (NCEO Brief #4)
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Participation Guidelines for New Assessments: Thinking Through Their Development
(NCEO Brief #3)
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Developing Common Accommodations Policies: Discussion Points for Consortia
(NCEO Brief #2)
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Don't Forget Accommodations! Five Questions To Ask When Moving to Technology-based Assessments NCEO (NCEO Brief #1)
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States' Participation Guidelines for Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards (AA-MAS) in 2010 (Synthesis Report 82)
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Participation and Performance Reporting for the Alternate Assessment Based on Modified Achievement Standards (AA-MAS) (Technical Report 58)
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Meeting the Needs of Special Education Students: Recommendations for the Race-to-the-Top Consortia and States (Arabella Advisors)
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Public Reporting of 2007-2008 Assessment Information on Students with Disabilities: Progress on the Gap Front (Technical Report 57)
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Accommodations: Results of a Survey of Alabama Special Education Teachers
(Synthesis Report 81)
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Characteristics of States' Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards in 2009-2010 (Synthesis Report 80)
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Who are the students who may qualify for an alternate assessment based on modified academic achievement standards (AA-MAS)?: Focus group results (Synthesis Report 79)
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Computer-based Testing: Practices and Considerations (Synthesis Report 78)
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Science Assessments for Students with Disabilities in School Year 2006-2007: What We Know about Participation, Performance, and Accommodations (Synthesis Report 77)
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Annual Performance Report (APR): 2007-2008 State Assessment Data
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2009 Survey of States: Accomplishments and New Issues at the End of a Decade of Change
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Developing and Improving Modified Achievement Level Descriptors: Rationale, Procedures, and Tools
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Earning a High School Diploma through Alternative Routes (Synthesis Report 76)
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A Summary of the Research on the Effects of Test Accommodations: 2007-2008 (Technical Report 56)
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States' Participation Guidelines for Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards (AA-MAS) in 2009 (Synthesis Report 75)
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States' Accommodations Policies for Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards (AA-MAS) in 2008-2009 (Synthesis Report 74)
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Rethinking Assumptions about Alternate Assessment based on Alternate Achievement Standards
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Common Misperceptions and Research-based Recommendations for Alternate Assessment based on Alternate Achievement Standards (Synthesis Report 73)
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States Challenged to Meet Special Education Targets for Assessment Indicator (Technical Report 55)
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NCEO Brief: The Characteristics of Low Performing Students on Large-Scale Assessments HTML document / PDF document

Using Growth for Accountability: Considerations for Students with Disabilities (Policy Directions 21) HTML document / PDF document

Characteristics of States' Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards in 2008 (Synthesis Report 72) HTML document / PDF document

State Reports on the Participation and Performance of English Language Learners with Disabilities in 2006-2007 (Technical Report 54) HTML document / PDF document

Achieving Transparency in the Public Reporting of 2006-2007 Assessment Results (Technical Report 53) HTML document | PDF document

States' Participation Guidelines for Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards (AA-MAS) in 2008 (Synthesis Report 71) HTML document / PDF document

Good News and Bad News in Disaggregated Subgroup Reporting  to the Public on 2005‐2006 Assessment Results (Technical Report 52) HTML document / PDF document

An Analysis of Accommodations Issues from the Standards and Assessments Peer Review (Technical Report 51) HTML document / PDF document

Trends in the Participation and Performance of Students with Disabilities (Technical Report 50) HTML document / PDF document

A Principled Approach to Accountability Assessments for Students with Disabilities (Synthesis Report 70) HTML document / PDF document

2007 State Policies on Assessment Participation and Accommodations for Students with Disabilities (Synthesis Report 69) HTML document / PDF document

A Brief History of Alternate Assessments Based on Alternate Achievement Standards (Synthesis Report 68) HTML document / PDF document

Improving Accommodations Outcomes: Monitoring Instructional and Assessment Accommodations for Students with Disabilities PDF document

NCLB e IDEA: Lo que los Padres de Estudiantes con Discapacidades Necesitan Saber y Hacer (Spanish version of NCLB and IDEA: What Parents of Students with Disabilities Need to Know and Do) PDF document

Annual Performance Report (APR): 2006-2007 State Assessment Data PDF document