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Wu, Yi-Chen; Thurlow, Martha; Liu, Kristin – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2021
The purpose of this Brief is to highlight available federal data about the characteristics of English learners with disabilities, including how the population has changed over time. Understanding the characteristics of English learners with disabilities is critical to ensuring that their needs are met appropriately during the assessment process.…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, English Language Learners, Students with Disabilities, Student Needs
Liu, Kristin; Lazarus, Sheryl; Thurlow, Martha; Stewart, Janet; Larson, Erik – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2020
Providing accommodations during assessments for students with disabilities has long been a standard requirement in federal education legislation. Providing assessment accommodations for English learners (ELs), on the other hand, is a newer requirement appearing only over the past few decades. As such, state assessment policies vary widely in terms…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Students with Disabilities, Testing Accommodations, Student Needs
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Guzman-Orth, Danielle; Laitusis, Cara; Thurlow, Martha; Christensen, Laurene – ETS Research Report Series, 2016
This paper is the second in a series from Educational Testing Service (ETS) that conceptualizes next-generation English language proficiency (ELP) assessment systems for K-12 English learners (ELs) in the United States.The first paper articulated a high-level conceptualization of next-generation ELP assessment systems (Hauck, Wolf, & Mislevy,…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Proficiency, English Language Learners, English (Second Language)