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- Title: What Do Alternate Assessments of Alternate Academic Achievement Standards Measure? A Multitrait-Multimethod Analysis (Exceptional Children) (Report)
- Author : Exceptional Children
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 281 KB
Description
For more than a decade, educators have administered alternate assessments of alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AASs) to students with significant disabilities who cannot meaningfully participate in their states' general achievement tests. As a result of federal legislation, starting with the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act of 1997 (IDEA) and reiterated in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) and the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004), every state has an AA-AAS and must ensure its technical soundness. The technical soundness of AA-AASs, however, remains an area of concern. Basic questions about the constructs measured and their relationship to other measures of achievement remain largely unsubstantiated by rigorous research and validation studies. The paucity of published studies or documentary evidence for validity in states' AA-AAS technical manuals supports this assertion. The National Study of Alternate Assessments (NSAA) report (SRI International, 2009) provides a comprehensive descriptive summary of key attributes of AA-AASs and resulting accountability data for each state. The NSAA indicates that directors of AA-AASs in 41% of the states and one territory reported conducting a formal study to document that test and item scores are related to internal or external variables as intended. The NSAA also reported that in 59% of the states, a formal study had documented measurement of the construct relevance of their test. The information, however, is not widely available.
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