With the extended school closures due to COVID-19 throughout the United States, students are having to learn in entirely new ways and facing challenges when it comes to learning during these unprecedented times. The Continuity of Learning resource database offers information, tools, and resources to help educators, parents and families, and related service providers meet the educational, behavioral, and emotional needs of children and youth with disabilities through remote and virtual learning.
Full 2021 Annual Performance Report (APR) Package for the Educational Technology, Media, and Materials to Improve Services for Children with Disabilities Program (CFDA 84.327)
Full Fiscal Year 2021 Annual Performance Report (APR) Package for the Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Results for Children with Disabilities Program (CFDA 84.326).
The Online Accommodations Bibliography allows users to search a compilation of empirical research studies on the effects of various testing accommodations for students with disabilities...
The Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students With Disabilities includes information about the Department’s investments, papers on large-scale assessment, technical assistance (TA) products, and...
These materials were developed through projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Many were developed by projects affiliated specifically with the Department’s Office of...
This document provides further resources on teaching and assessing students with disabilities. This resource is a part of the Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing...
This paper reviews the research and related literature on secondary students who have difficulty reading and identified four factors necessary for students to become proficient...
The purpose of this document is to provide a conceptual overview of responsiveness to intervention (RTI)—including hypothetical examples of how RTI might operate within a...
When teachers use systematic progress monitoring to track their students progress in reading, mathematics, or spelling, they are better able to identify students in need...
Has alternate assessment helped revamp special education services and practice for students with significant cognitive impairments? The following paper includes true stories from teachers and...
This report addresses issues on how to make informed decisions about the best instruction and assessments for students with cognitive disabilities. It also includes an...
This paper proposes that assessments based on universal design principles offer a promising approach to providing optimal, standardized assessment conditions for all students, giving each...
This resource provides definitions to key terms related to Models for Large-Scale Assessment for Students with Disabilities. This resource is a part of the Tool...
This paper focuses on issues most closely related to the participation methods. The paper discusses the learning and behavioral characteristics of students likely to be...
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the validation process for large-scale assessments using the standards-based assessments of two states while minimizing construct-irrelevant variance...
In this resource, we seek answers to two important questions. Whether the students tested have disabilities or not, the questions are identical: (1) How valid...
