Partnership for Accessible Reading Assessment (PARA)
Description
Engaged in research on and development of accessible reading assessments to provide a valid demonstration of reading proficiency for increasingly diverse populations of students in public schools, and particularly for students with disabilities that affect reading.
This project was archived on 2013-01-16T00:00:00-06:00
- Contact
- Martha L Thurlow
- Director
- Martha L Thurlow
- Website
- www.readingassessment.info/
- Funder
- National Center for Special Education Research, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
- Collaborators
- National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing
- Westat
- Educational Testing Service
- Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota
Staff
Product
Topics
- Specific life stage
- Children
- Adolescents and young adults
- Educational accountability and assessment
- Accommodations and supports
- Accountability
- Assessment (large-scale, alternate)
- Evaluation of education programs
- Public reporting
Activities
- Research
- Dissemination