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Assessing Students with Disabilities

Assessing Students with Disabilities. How do we test kids with disabilities?. Federal law demands it. SWD must be based on same state-approved curricular aims designated for all students Accommodations must not alter the nature of the skill/and/or knowledge being measured

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Assessing Students with Disabilities

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  1. Assessing Students with Disabilities How do we test kids with disabilities?

  2. Federal law demands it • SWD must be based on same state-approved curricular aims designated for all students • Accommodations must not alter the nature of the skill/and/or knowledge being measured • Expectations established for students with disabilities

  3. Mini-history • P.L. 94-142 Education for All Handicapped Children Act- 1975- federal funding to states that gave SWD “free and appropriate education” in “least restrictive environment”- use if IEP • 1997 IDEA- reauthorization- few adverse consequences for noncompliance • NCLB- 2002- AYP • 2004- IDEA reauthorized again

  4. What is the difference between IDEA and NCLB? • NCLB- group based • IDEA- individual based • What are 504 plans: • Communicable diseases • Chronic health problems • Attention difficulties

  5. Accommodations • What are they? • The adaptations provided for students with disabilities during instruction and assessment so that those students will have a fair opportunity to succeed and can be measured accurately

  6. Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSO) Manual • Presentation accommodations- access in different modes • Response accommodation- some type of assistive device or organizer • Setting accommodations- change the location • Timing and scheduling accommodations- increase amount of time or the way the time is organized

  7. What are appropriate expectations? • ??????

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