Assessing students in the margin
Subtitle: challenges, strategies, and techniques
By: edited by Michael Russell, Maureen Kavanaugh
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlotte, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9781617353147; 9781617353154; 9781617353161
Subjects: Educational tests and measurements; Government policy; Learning disabled children; Rating of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Factors to consider in providing appropriate test accommodations to individual students with disabilities / Sara E. Bolt; title: Overcoming barriers to access for students with disabilities: testing accommodations and beyond / Alexander Kurz and Stephen N. Elliott; title: Moving ELLS with disabilities out of the margins: strategies for increasing the validity of English language proficiency assessments / Kristin Liu, Deb Albus, and Manuel Barrera; title: A new framework for accommodating English language learners with disabilities / Christopher M. Rogers and Laurene l. Christensen; title: Improving accommodations assignment: reconceptualizing professional development to support accommodations decision making / Leanne R. Ketterlin-Geller and Lindy Crawford; title: Ever-evolving state policies and practices for using technology-based accommodations to improve assessment outcomes for students in the margins / Laurene L. Christensen, Sheryl S. Lazarus, and Vitaliy Shyyan; title: Alternate achievement standards for alternate assessments: considerations for policy and practice / Shawnee Y. Wakeman ... [et al.]; title: Challenges to developing and implementing alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) / Karin Hess, Mike Burdge, and Jean Clayton; title: Instructing and assessing students who may be candidates for alternate assessments based on modified achievement standards (AA-MAS) / Sheryl S. Lazarus and Rachel Quenemoen; title: Alternate assessments based on modified achievement standards: reflections on assessment design and implementation / Dianna Carrizales and Leanne R. Ketterlin-Geller; title: Item and test alterations: designing and developing alternate assessments with modified achievement standards / Sue Bechard, Patricia Almond, and Renee Cameto; title: Adaptive testing options for accountability assessments / Cara Cahalan Laitusis ... [et al.]; title: Holding modified assessments accountable: applying a unified reliability and validity framework to the development and evaluation of AA-MAS / Ryan J. Kettler; title: Developing a validity argument for assessments of students in the margins / Marianne Perie and Ellen Forte; title: Beyond universal design: accessibility theory to advance testing for all students / Peter A. Beddow; title: Accessible test design / Michael Russell; title: Universal design and the use of cognitive labs / Christopher Johnstone, Jason R. Altman, and Michael Moore; title: Accessibility of statewide assessment programs: examining RFP requirements / Maureen Kavanaugh and Michael Russell; title: Reflecting on milestones and mapping a route for the future / Michael Russell.