The purpose of this brief is to examine disproportionality with respect to student group participation in Alternate Assessments aligned with Alternate Academic Achievement Standards (AA-AAAS).
Topics: Alternate Assessment
Carla Evans and Chris Domaleski prepared a technical brief with the National Center on Educational Outcomes to help states implement federal guidance related to participation rates for alternate asses…
This presentation focuses on understanding how to design and develop an alternate assessment based on modified achievement standards (AA-MAS).
Scott Marion discusses key considerations for validating alternate assessment systems at the 2008 RILS conference.
Using Learning Progressions to Define ‘Good Enough’ Performance for the Alternate Assessment, a presentation made at CCSSO June 2008.
The modified alternate assessment option allowed through new NCLB regulations provides for the development and implementation of an alternate assessment based on modified academic achievement standard…
The modified alternate assessment option allowed through new NCLB regulations provides for the development and implementation of an alternate assessment based on modified academic achievement standard…
This presentation given at the OSEP meeting for new GSEGs proposes ideas for developing achievement level descriptors for the AA-MAS, or modified assessment.
This presentation given at the OSEP meeting for new GSEGs outlines some considerations for examining the consequential validity of a state’s AA-AAS.
In this invited presentation to those working on federally-funded assessment project for students with severe cognitive disabilities, Gong discussed how learning progressions might be used to help dev…
Presentation on the 2% assessment (AA-MAS) at Alternate Assessment conference sponsored by USED.
This draft report discusses the steps for developing alternate achievement standards for students with significant cognitive disabilities and provides guidance on how to run a sound standard-setting s…
This PowerPoint presentation, part of a web seminar sponsored by the National Center on Educational Outcomes on Best Practices in Science Teaching and Testing for Students with Severe Cognitive Disabi…
This presentation from the 2006 CCSSO conference on large-scale assessment presents a framework for establishing achievement standards for alternate assessments for students with the most significant …
This presentation from the 2006 CCSSO conference on large-scale assessment includes a summary of the technical documentation work completed thus far as part of the New Hampshire Enhanced Initiative.
This paper analyzes and describes the flexibility or unintended variation in alternate assessments on alternate achievement standards in an effort to provide a framework for assessment system designer…