Topics

Academic Standards
Accommodations
Accountability
Alternate Assessments
ELLs with Disabilities
Graduation Requirements
Measuring Growth
Participation
Reporting
Universally Designed Assessments

Tools

Developing and Improving Modified Achievement Level Descriptors: Rationale, Procedures, and Tools

NCEO Data Viewer
An interactive data reporting Web site

Accommodations Bibliography
Search a compilation of empirical research studies

More Tools

New NCEO Publications

2009 State Policies on Assessment Participation and Accommodations for Students with Disabilities (Synthesis Report 83)
HTML document / PDF document

NCEO Brief #4:
Understanding Subgroups in Common State Assessments: Special Education Students and ELLs
HTML document / PDF document

Recent Reports

Feature

Forum on Accommodations in the 21st Century: Critical Considerations for Students with Disabilities
CCSSO National Conference on Student Assessment Pre-Session
June 19, 2011, Orlando, FL
A report on the results of this forum

Quick links to the Assessment Consortia

Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) GSEG
National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) GSEG
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career
SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium

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