Alternate Assessments Based on Alternate Achievement Standards : Policy, Practice, and Potential

, by Schafer, William D.

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ISBN: 9781598570373 | 1598570374
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Copyright: 8/30/2009

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What really works in alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards?

About the Editors	p. ix
About the Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xxi
Preface	p. xxiii
Conceptualizing Alternate Assessment
Who Are the Children Who Take Alternate Achievement Standards Assessments?	p. 3
Understanding the Construct to Be Assessed	p. 23
Sampling the Domain for Evidence of Achievement	p. 33
Public Policy and the Development of Alternate Assessments for Students with Cognitive Disabilities	p. 41
Alignment of Alternate Assessments with State Standards	p. 61
Conceptualizing and Setting Performance Standards for Alternate Assessments	p. 93
An Introduction to Validity Arguments for Alternate Assessments	p. 113
The Long and Winding Road of Alternate Assessments: Where We Started, Where We Are Now, and the Road Ahead	p. 127
Alternate Assessment in Action
Assessing All Students in Connecticut	p. 157
Georgia Alternate Assessment: A Portfolio Assessment for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities	p. 171
The Alternate Maryland School Assessment	p. 189
Alternate Assessment in Massachusetts: Approaches and Validity	p. 221
The Mississippi Alternate Assessment of Extended Curriculum Frameworks: Purpose, Procedures, and validity Evidence Summary	p. 239
Test Design and Validation of Inferences for the Oregon Alternate Assessment	p. 275
The South Carolina Alternate Assessment	p. 301
The Future of Alternate Assessment
Considering the Consequences of Alternative Assessments	p. 317
Which Came First-The Curriculum or the Assessment?	p. 329
Key Issues in the Use of Alternate Assessments: Closing Comments to Open More Discussion and Exploration of Solutions	p. 335
Psychometric Rigor for Alternate Assessments: For the Sake of Interpretation, Not Rigor	p. 341
Does the Emperor Have New Clothes?	p. 347
Assessment Population: Implications for the Validity Evaluation	p. 351
Some Key Considerations for Test Evaluators and Developers	p. 355
Toward a Straighter Road	p. 359
How Should States Move Forward?	p. 363
Principles Unique to Alternate Assessments	p. 365
Reflections on the Alternate Assessment in Oregon	p. 369
Essential Truths About Alternate Assessments	p. 373
Index	p. 377
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Alternate Assessments Based on Alternate Achievement Standards : Policy, Practice, and Potential

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials