NCEO Brief: Exploring Alternate ELP Assessments for ELLs with Significant Cognitive Disabilities (#10)

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Part of the NCEO Brief series.

Author(s)

Kristin K Liu PhD, Yi-Chen Wu, Martha L Thurlow, Linda Goldstone, Jim Hatten, Vitaliy Shyyan, Laurene L Christensen, Sheryl Lazarus

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A brief presenting information on what we know about the participation of English language learners (ELLs) with disabilities in state alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS), highlighting information collected by NCEO that informs what we know about the participation of ELLs with disabilities in alternate English language proficiency (ELP) assessments. Topics addressed in the brief include: (a) the size of the population of ELLs with disabilities; (b) what states say about the inclusion of ELLs with disabilities in alternate ELP assessments, and the participation of ELLs with disabilities in alternate ELP assessments; and (c) experts' recommendations about alternate ELP assessments for ELLs with significant cognitive disabilities. Conclusions focus on four recommendations for consideration.

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Date

July 2014 

Type

Brief 

Edition

Number 10

Publisher

National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)