Kick-off Meetings for the GSEG Projects
January 15 & 16, 2008

The posting of these presentations on the NCEO Web site is not intended as an endorsement of the approaches by the USDOE or by NCEO.

Alternate Assessments on Alternate Achievement Standards (1/15/08)

• Using Learning Progressions to Develop Strong AA AAS AA-Alternate Assessments Based on Alternate Achievement Standards
  Brian Gong, NCIEA
• Evaluating Consequential Validity of AA-AAS
  Marianne Perie, NCIEA
• GSEG Management and Reporting for Project Directors
  Susan Weigert, Larry Wexler, OSEP
• A State Consortium to Examine the Consequential Validity of Alternate Assessments Based on Alternate Achievement Standards (AA-AAS): A Longitudinal Study
  Mike Sharpe, North Central Regional Resource Center In Collaboration with the States of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
• Linking Instruction and Assessment to Grade Level Content Standards
  Diane M. Browder, PhD, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Assistive Technology, Augmentative Communication: Some Considerations
  Michael McSheehan, University of New Hampshire
• Using Data to Make Decisions
  Jacqueline F. Kearns, Ed.D., NAAC – University of Kentucky
   

Alternate Assessments on Modified Achievement Standards (1/16/08)

• Welcome
  U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
• Overview of Existing Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards (AA-MAS)
  Sheryl Lazarus, NCEO
• Who are the 2% Students …eligible to be judged as proficient based on modified grade-level academic achievement standards?
  Naomi Zigmund, University of Pittsburgh
• Identifying Students in Need of Modified Achievement Standards and Developing Valid Assessments
  Sue Bechard, Measured Progress and Judy Snow, Montana Department of Education
• Monitoring Student Progress to Develop Standards-Based IEPs
  Gerald Tindal, University of Oregon and Martin Ikeda, Iowa Department of Education
• Writing Modified Achievement Level Descriptors
  Marianne Perie, NCIEA
• The TRIAAD Project: Targeting Research to Investigate Alternate Assessment Development
  Melissa Metts, Courtney Foster, South Carolina Department of Education
• Thinking About the Think-Aloud Method to Guide Development of Assessments of Modified Achievement Standards
  Steve Ferrara, CTB McGraw-Hill

• Consortium for Alternate Assessment Validity and Experimental Studies (CAAVES Project)
  Elizabeth Compton, Idaho Department Of Education at Boise State University, Ryan Kettler, Vanderbilt University; Andrew Roach, Georgia State University

• Technical Adequacy of Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards (AA-MAS): Considerations
  Edynn Sato, WestED

• Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Academic Achievement Standards: LAA2
  Fen Chou, Louisiana Department of Education

• Reading Aloud Tests of Reading Review of Research from the Designing Accessible Reading Assessments Projects
  Cara Cahalan-Laitusis, Center for Validity Research, ETS

• Preparation and Documentation for Peer Review of the AA-MAS
  Sue Rigney, Sharon Hall OESE

• GSEG Management and Reporting
  Susan Weigert, Larry Wexler OSEP