CONTENTS

• Welcome Letters
• Introduction to the Tool Kit
• Departmental Investments Supporting Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities

• Including Students with Disabilities in Large-Scale Assessment: Executive Summary
• Validating Assessments for Students with Disabilities
• Reliabitiy Issues and Evidence
• Validity Evidence
• Standards and Assessment Approaches for Students with Disabilities Using a Validity Argument
• A Decision Framework for IEP Teams Related to Methods for Individual Student Participation in State Accountability Assessments
• Professional Development on Assessment Systems
• Glossary

ASSESSMENT

Large-Scale Assessment

• Online Accommodations Bibliography
• Universal Design Applied to Large-Scale Assessments
• Progress Monitoring in an Inclusive Standards-Based Assessment and Accountability System

Alternate Assessment

• Distribution of Proficient Scores that Exceed the 1% Cap: Four Possible Approaches
• Expectations for Students with Cognitive Disabilities: Is the Cup Half Empty or Half Full? Can the Cup Flow Over?
• Massachusetts: One State’s Approach to Setting Performance Levels on the Alternate Assessment
• Designing from the Ground Floor: Alternate Assessment on Alternate Achievement Standards
• Alternate Assessment: Teacher and State Experiences

Progress Monitoring

• What is Scientifically-Based Research on Progress Monitoring?

Response To Intervention

• Responsiveness to Intervention in the SLD Determination Process

INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES

K-3 Literacy

• Proven Ideas from Research for Parents: A Child Becomes a Reader – K-3
• Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read – K-3

Social Interaction and Communication

• Tangible Symbol Systems: Making the Right to Communicate a Reality for Individuals with Severe Disabilities

Adolescent Literacy

• Never Too Late: Approaches to Reading Instruction for Secondary Students with Disabilities

BEHAVIOR

School-Wide Behavioral Interventions

• School-wide Positive Behavior Support: Implementers’ Blueprint and Self-Assessment

ACCOMMODATIONS

Instructional and Assessment Accommodations

• Accommodations Manual: How to Select, Administer, and Evaluate Use of Accommodations for Instruction and Assessment of Students with Disabilities

• Resources