National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC)

Link to NCSC GSEG Web site:
http://www.ncscpartners.org/

General Supervision Enhancement Grant (GSEG)

Developing a system of assessments supported by curriculum, instruction, and professional development to ensure that students with significant cognitive disabilities achieve increasingly higher academic outcomes and leave high school ready for post-secondary options.

Who We Are

The organizational partners include the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) as the host and fiscal agent, along with the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (NCIEA), the University of Kentucky (UKY), University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), edCount, LLC, and 19 state partners: Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Pacific Assessment Consortium (PAC-6)*, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

* The PAC-6 includes the 6 entities (American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands) that partner as 1 state, led by the University of Guam Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (CEDDERS).

Materials and resources for more information - more will be posted as project products are developed - check back!

Note: Some of the files below require Acrobat Reader. If you don't have this software, go to Acrobat Reader for a free download.

a. NCSC Kickoff handout

b. NCSC Proposal Narrative

c. NCSC Theory of Action

d. NAAC/NCEO Alternate Assessment Online Bibliography

e. NAAC Proposed Typology of AA-AAS Approaches

f. NAAC Proposed Typology of AA-AAS Scoring Methods

g. Common Misperceptions and Research-based Recommendations on AA-AAS

h. NCSC Tier II affiliated state option

E-mail Project Director Rachel Quenemoen at quene003@umn.edu for more information.

The contents of this web page were developed under a grant from the Department of Education (PR/Award #: H373X100002, Project Officer, Susan.Weigert@Ed.gov). However, the contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education and no assumption of endorsement by the Federal government should be made.

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