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NCEO Presentations
Conference Papers
Testimonies
Webinars
Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards
Webinar for Parent Training and Information Centers & Community
Parent Resource Centers
Conducted
October 9, 2007
Presenters:
Rachel Quenemoen, Senior Research
Fellow, NCEO
Candace Cortiella, Director, The Advocacy Institute
Expert Panel:
Kathleen Boundy, Co-Director, Center for Law and Education
Connie Hawkins, Director, Technical Assistance Centers, Regions
2-3
Sue Rigney, Education Specialist, OESE, U.S. Dept. of Education
Martha Thurlow, Director, NCEO
NCEO Presentations
2008 OSEP Project
Directors’ Conference -
"How 'Flexible' Are You?" (July
22, 2008)
Federal Policy and Statewide
Assessments for Students with Disabilities (Sue Rigney,
U.S. Department of Education)
Who Are the
Students in Alternate and Modified Achievement Standards
Assessments? (Jacqueline Kearns, NAAC; Martha Thurlow,
NCEO; Elizabeth Towles-Reeves, NAAC)
Modified Academic
Achievement Standards (Martha Thurlow, NCEO)
2008
CCSSO Presentations (June 15-18, 2008)
Agreeing on the “Principles” of Accessible Reading
Assessments—Can We Do It Together? (Martha Thurlow and
Cara Cahalan Laitusis)
Validity of
the Interpretations of Large-Scale Test Results from
Accommodated State Assessments (Martha Thurlow)
Making Reading
Assessments Accessible by Affecting Test-taking Motivation (Ross Moen)
Students Who Are ‘Difficult’ to
Assess: What Can We Do? How Will that Help? (Rachel Quenemoen)
Science Performance Assessments:
Opportunities for Blind and Visually Impaired Youth to Show What
They Know (Jane Krentz)
Accommodation Decisions: Evidence
Based Versus Subjective Decision (Martha Thurlow)
What’s Developing? What’s the
Evidence?: Learning from Different Models of Alternate
Assessment (Ross Moen)
Meeting the Needs of Individual
Students with a Universal Assessment System (Martha Thurlow)
Establishing the Validity of Test
Accommodations for Students with Disabilities: A Collaboration
of State-based Research (Martha Thurlow)
From Practice to Peer Review: Practical Examples for Monitoring
Accommodations that Meet Federal Requirements:
Courtney
Foster (SC)
Tom Hicks (AR)
Karen
Denbroeder (FL)
Linda Turner (SD)
Laurene Christensen
(NCEO)
For additional presentations, see
CCSSO 2008 Resources.
2008 CEC
Presentationsies: Regulatory Requirements
(Lou Danielson)
Snapshots: What We Know about State Assessment Practices
(Martha Thurlow)
Kick-off Meetings for the
GSEG Projects
(January 15 & 16, 2008)
Communities of Practice
Teleconference (6/5/07)
Introduction to the NCEO Data
Viewer
OSEP
(7/17/07)
Building Consensus on
Effective Instructional Strategies for English Language Learners with
Disabilities
(Martha Thurlow and Kristi Liu)
ASES
SCASS
(2/6/07)
NCEO ASES SCASS
presentation
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
(4/9/05)
Strategies
and Tools for Teaching English Language Learners with Disabilities
(Kristi Liu and Ann Clapper)
Math Handout
Math Glossary Handout
Innovation Configuration Map
Minnesota CEC - NCEO presentation
(2/23/05)
Accessible Reading Approaches for Students with Disabilities (Ann
Clapper and Christopher Johnstone)
Case Study 1
Case Study 2
Case Study 3
Handout
Grant Reading Flyer
Universally Designed
English Proficiency and Content Area Assessments (2004):
Training Module for the
Universal Design of Assessments
(Prepared as part of the Title VI grant: Improving the Achievement of
English Language Learners Through Authentic Proficiency Assessments in
collaboration with the states of Minnesota, Nevada, and South Carolina)
CCSSO 2004:
NCEO CCSSO Pre-Conference Clinic:
CCSSO Conference Presentations:
Alternate Assessments: State of the States:
Approachig the Validation of Alternate
Assessments: A Research Framework and Examples from States -
Current Status of State Alternate
Assessments and Challenges Validating Alternate Assessments (Martha
Thurlow)
Designing and Using Assessment and AYP
Reports for Improved Achievement at State and Local Levels:
Introduction and State Reporting Summary
(Martha Thurlow and Hilda Ives Wiley)
Using Assessment Data to
Improve Student Achievement and Using MCAS Achievement Data to Make
Accommodations Decisions (Dan Wiener, Coordinator of Assessment for
Students with Disabilities; Bill Henderson, Principal, O'Hearn School,
Boston)
How Do We Keep Kids From
Being Stuck In Our Gap? A frame, a series of discussion questions,
and some possible answers
(Rachel Quenemoen, NCEO)
In
Search of Consistency: Guidelines for the Administration of Accommodations
by Third Parties (Ann Clapper, Amanda Blount Morse, NCEO; Janet
Filbin, Colorado Dept. of Education; and Scott Trimble, Kentucky Dept. of
Education)
Measurement Purgatory or
Best Practice? Alternate Assessment for Students with Significant Cognitive
Disabilities
(Don Peasley, Ohio Dept. of Education; Tom Deeter, Iowa Dept.
of Education; and Rachel Quenemoen, NCEO)
Meeting NCLB Act:
Students with Disabilities Who Are Caught in the Gap (Martha Thurlow,
Ross Moen, Jane Minnema, NCEO)
Meeting NCLB Act: Students with
Disabilities Who Are Caught in the Gap (Sue Rigney, U.S. Dept. of
Education)
What item Level Data Tell us About Universal
Design: Fantasy, Foolishness, or Fuel for Fire? in Large-Scale Assessments:
Introduction (Martha Thurlow)
CEC 2004:
How IEP Teams Make Assessment
Accommodations Decisions: Rhode Island's Research Findings
Meeting Adequate
Yearly Progress for Children with Disabilities (Jane Minnema and Michael
Burdge)
Parents of
English Language Learners with Disabilities Speak Out About Instructional
Strategies
(Manuel Barrera)
ASCD presentation and handouts:
Research-based Teaching Strategies to Increase LEP/IEP Student Achievement
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NCEO Conference Papers
AERA 2007
Research Impact on State Accommodation Policies for Students
with Disabilities Martha Thurlow (PDF)
AERA 2004
I Say
Potato, You Say Potahto: An AERA Conference Discussion Paper Rachel
Quenemoen and Martha Thurlow (PDF)
NCME 2004
Using DIF
Analyses to Examine Several Commonly-Held Beliefs About Testing
Accommodations for Students with Disabilities
- Bolt presentation (PDF)
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conference papers
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Testimonies
Testimony of Rachel Quenemoen,
"How NCLB Affects Students with Disabilities, Committee on Education and
Labor, March 29, 2007
Testimony of Rachel
Quenemoen, Before the Committee on
Education and the Workforce, United States House of Representatives, July
12, 2006
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