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Individualize instruction, remove barriers, track student progress: Some tips for making distance-learning special ed work

How can educators effectively engage students with disabilities in distance learning? Elizabeth Barker shares shares four ingredients for effective special education in this piece by The 74’s Beth Hawkins.

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Mentions: Elizabeth Barker

Topics: Equity, Accessibility, COVID-19 & schools

2020
White paper

NWEA 2020 MAP Growth Achievement Status and Growth Norms for Students and Schools

The 2020 MAP Growth Norms report presents mathematics, reading, language arts and science achievement and growth patterns for students attending public schools across the U.S. It includes details on the methodological approach, information on MAP Growth assessments, the tested student population and post-stratification weighting, growth modeling, and implications of the study for research and practice, as well as tables showing student and school status and growth norms, status percentiles, growth distributions, and growth percentiles

 

Topics: Growth modeling, Measurement & scaling

2020
Blog article

The 4 ingredients you need for reaching students with disabilities online

The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, formative assessment strategies, student data, and individualized or small-group instruction can help educators provide quality instruction for students with in distance learning.

By: Elizabeth Barker

Topics: Equity, Accessibility, COVID-19 & schools

2020
Journal article

Do response styles affect estimates of growth on social-emotional constructs? Evidence from four years of longitudinal survey scores

This study explored how response style affects estimates of growth.

By: James Soland, Megan Kuhfeld

Topics: Measurement & scaling, Growth modeling, Social-emotional learning

2020
Blog article

Start now for a coherent assessment system in the fall

In this guest blog on the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment’s CenterLine, the authors share their perspective on how states, districts, and schools should consider using assessment to support instruction when school begins again in the fall.

By: Patrick Meyer

Topics: COVID-19 & schools, Empowering educators

2020
Book

An intelligent CAT that can deal with disengaged test taking

This book presents varied applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in test development, including research and successful examples of using AI technology in automated item generation, automated test assembly, automated scoring, and computerized adaptive testing.

By: Steven Wise

Topics: Measurement & scaling, Innovations in reporting & assessment, School & test engagement

2020
Book

A cessation of measurement: Identifying test taker disengagement using response time

This chapter explores both what happens when test takers disengage and how this disengagement should be managed during scoring.

By: Steven Wise, Megan Kuhfeld

Topics: School & test engagement

2020
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