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Oral Reading Fluency and Maze Measures as Predictors of Performance on North Carolina End-of-Grade Assessment of Reading Comprehension
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Galloway, Tara Watkins – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Current legislation (IDEA, 2004; NCLB, 2001) mandates all students, including students with disabilities, demonstrate progress toward the same standards. However, students continue to struggle with attainment of statewide academic standards as measured by high-stakes assessment. The purpose of the current study was to examine the degree that…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Academic Standards, Program Effectiveness
To What Extent Do Students with EBD Participate in State Accountability Assessments? Implications for Teachers
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George, Catherine C.; Vannest, Kimberly J. – Beyond Behavior, 2009
Questions and concerns exist regarding the exclusion of students with disabilities from statewide assessments, partly because the number of student with disabilities who are included in state assessment varies from state to state and is generally low. This contributes to a belief that accountability for all students may be misunderstood or ill…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Program Effectiveness, Accountability, Decision Making
Statewide Physical Fitness Testing: Perspectives from the Gym
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Martin, Scott B.; Ede, Alison; Morrow, James R., Jr.; Jackson, Allen W. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2010
This paper provides observations of physical fitness testing in Texas schools and physical education teachers' insights about large-scale testing using the FITNESSGRAM[R] assessment (Cooper Institute, 2007) as mandated by Texas Senate Bill 530. In the first study, undergraduate and graduate students who were trained to observe and assess student…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Physical Education, Group Discussion, Focus Groups
Show Us the Money! Planning and Preparation Can Help You Get Ed Tech Stimulus Funding
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Brock, Davis H. – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2009
Educators know there is a disconnect between students' technology experience outside of school and what they use in the classroom. At home many students play and learn with an array of tools that are restricted, banned, or, in many cases, just not available at school. They also know that effectively infusing technology into the classroom does make…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Legislation
Inclusive Music Education in the Republic of Korea: Policies and Adaptive Instruction for General Educators of Primary School Students with Disabilities
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Kim, Eun Jew – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purposes of this study were to research the current inclusive practices in primary school music education in the Republic of Korea (ROK), identify issues that hamper optimal inclusion, and develop instructional strategies and recommendations to assist general educators in the accommodation of students with disabilities in their music classes.…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Music Education, Music, Needs Assessment
A Framework for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Design of Response-to-Intervention Models
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Garcia, Shernaz B.; Ortiz, Alba A. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2008
Response to Intervention (RTI) was encoded into the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, and is being adopted on a wide scale as an alternative approach to identification of students with learning disabilities. For RTI to be an effective mechanism for addressing disproportionate representation of culturally and…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Identification