federal policy & statewide assessments for students with disabilities
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Federal Policy & Statewide Assessments for Students with Disabilities. Sue Rigney U.S. Department of Education OSEP Project Directors Meeting August 2008. Federal Policy. State assessments Alternate & modified achievement standards NAEP Participation - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Federal Policy & Statewide Assessments for Students with
Disabilities
Sue Rigney
U.S. Department of Education
OSEP Project Directors Meeting
August 2008
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Federal Policy
• State assessments
• Alternate & modified achievement standards
• NAEP
• Participation
• Requires alternate for State- and district-wide assessments
• Accommodations guidelines
NCLB
IDEA
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Federal Policy Implementation
Statute, regulations & guidance drafted and disseminated
Compliance monitoring carried out by multiple offices e.g.,OSEP, OESE, SASA
Peer review of Title I State Plan required
Technical assistance
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State Policy Implementation
• Inclusion policies and procedures
• Optional development & implementation of AA-AAS or AA-MAS consistent with statute
• Support for test administration and use
• Infrastructure for local implementation
• Assessment training
• Professional development to support effective instruction
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Intent - NCLB
“To ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high quality education…”
– All schools publicly accountable for performance of SWD
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NCLB Requires
• Challenging State content standards
• Academic achievement standards
• Statewide accountability system that includes all schools
• Annual reporting of assessment results and AYP
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NCLB + RegulationsAA-AAS (1%) December 2003• Permits alternate achievement standard for
students with most significant cognitive disability
AA-MAS (2%) April 2007• Permits modified academic achievement standard
for students whose disability prevents them from meeting grade level standard in period covered by current IEP
1%-2% caps as safeguard for students
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Testing Students with Disabilities
State Testing Options
• Grade level test
• Grade level test with accommodations
• Grade level test – alternate format, same academic achievement standards
• Test based on modified achievement standards (2% cap)
• Test based on alternate achievement standards (1% cap)
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State must report to the Secretary the number and percent of SWD taking
General assessments General assessments w/ accommodations AA-Grade Level Achievement Standards AA-Modified Achievement Standards AA-Alternate Achievement Standards
Reporting
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Modified & Alternate Achievement Standards
Are permitted, not required Use limited to eligible students based on State
guidelines State must provide evidence of technical quality
Sue Rigney, USED
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Alternate achievement standards permitted only for students with most significant cognitive disability
AA-AAS
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Required since July 2000 Operational in all states Regulation requires alignment with
grade-level content standards Most states needed to revise the AA-
AAS to meet requirement for academic content
A few states still working on it
AA-AAS
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Impact on Assessment Practice
Virtually all State assessment participation policies changed since IASA
Participation of SWD in State assessments is substantially increased
22/50 states have changed participation policies/guidelines for AA-AAS since the Dec 9, 2003 regulation
Peer Review has prompted linkage to academic content for all states
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Impact on Instruction
• Anecdotal and case studiesMost pre-date requirement for academic
content
• Inclusion in accountability makes a difference:
“I think our expectations are higher.”
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Impact on Student Outcomes
Evidence of student outcomes limited
– Reports do not separate general test results and alternate results
– OSEP collects detailed data in biennial report but it’s hard to find
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Modified Achievement Standards
Are aligned with State’s academic content standards for the grade in which student is enrolled
Challenging for eligible students but less difficult than grade-level achievement standards
Include 3 achievement levels
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Student Eligibility
Disability precludes achievement of grade-level proficiency as demonstrated by
•State’s Grade-level assessments or
•Other measures such as:– Response to appropriate instruction– Multiple measurements over time
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AA-MAS Is Not…
A modified assessment Accommodations that would invalidate the general
test are not permitted for the AA-MAS because the construct should be the same
Modified content standards No change to the grade-level content standards
permitted
AA-MAS test blueprint should be comparable to the general test blueprint
A lower cut point on the general test
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Establish and monitor guidelines for IEP teams to determine which students eligible
Provide IEP teams a clear explanation of differences between AA-GLAS, AA-MAS, AA-AAS
Ensure that parents are informed
State Guidelines (1)
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State Guidelines (2)
Establish and monitor implementation of guidelines for developing IEPs
IEP goals based on grade-level content standards
IEP designed to monitor student progress
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Other state responsibilities
Inform IEP teams that student may be assessed on MAS in one or more subjects
Ensure student has access to grade-level curriculum
Ensure students not precluded from attempting to complete diploma requirements
Ensure annual IEP team review of assessment decisions
Disseminate guidelines for appropriate use of accommodations
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State Support for IEP TeamsWhich office(s) will:
develop participation guidelines for AA-MAS?
develop guidelines for writing standards-based IEPs?
disseminate materials and provide professional development to IEP teams?
monitor the implementation of IEP teams’ appropriate use of participation guidelines and development of standards-based IEPs?
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Debunking the MythsIt’s unfair to require students with
disabilities to take those tests
It’s unfair to expect children with different types of disabilities to achieve on a “one size fits all” test
It’s unfair to find districts “in need of improvement” when it’s only the scores of students with disabilities holding them back
www.napas.org
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AYP Targets Missed by Schools ThatDid Not Make Adequate Yearly Progress,
2004-05
Source: Study of State Implementation of Accountability and Teacher Quality Under NCLB (based on data reported by 39 states for 19,471 schools that missed AYP.
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Lessons Learned
• Collaboration needed to develop alternate assessments: assessment, special ed, content experts
• Resources needed to build local support systems
• Consequences must be documented
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More Lessons Learned
• Assessment gap vs instruction gap
• Simpler test items may not be the answer
• A test alone does not change practice
• Interpretation of outcomes difficult because student results confounded with opportunity to learn
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Implications for Higher Ed All new teachers need to know the state
content standards
Content
Pedogogy
Teachers & Administrators need to know how to work with special pops
Research
Resources
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Implications for Higher Ed Collaboration is essential for
Curriculum alignment
Instruction
Test development
Who needs to be included?
Special education
Curriculum specialists
Assessment experts