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.
This toolkit includes information, guidance, and templates to assist Part C and Part B 619 program staff with creating or enhancing their data governance policies...
This infographic document outlines how districts can examine discipline data, including exclusionary practices, among subgroups of students, to create "risk ratios."
The Excel spreadsheet application and user's guide are tools to aid states in their assessment of racial/ ethnic disproportionality. The spreadsheet application calculates several disproportionality...
The Significant Disproportionality Calculator is a spreadsheet application that the IDEA Data Center (IDC) created to help states analyze their data, make determinations of significant...
This customizable Excel workbook states can use for documenting, recording, and communicating existing business rules or data quality validation checks they perform during the collection...
This toolkit contains protocol templates that states can use to document all state-level IDEA data collection and reporting procedures and activities. Completing protocols for all...
This toolkit contains customizable protocols that states can use when working with their local education agencies (LEAs) to help them clearly define and document IDEA...
These Edit Check and Data Display Tools help states as they prepare their IDEA Section 618 data submissions. The tools identify potential business rule errors...
This suite of tools includes the IDEA Data Quality: Outlier Analyses Tool and the Outlier Analyses: Step-by-Step Guide . State personnel responsible for the IDEA...
These high-leverage practices help special educators and teacher candidates use effective practices for collaboration, assessment, social/emotional/behavioral supports, and instruction.
This document presents a five-step process for Individualized Educational Program (IEP) teams, 504 plan committees, general and special education teachers, administrators, and district level assessment...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Our understanding of "what works" in reading is dynamic and fluid, subject to ongoing review and assessment through quality research. This guide begins the process...
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...