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Project

NCEO National Alternate Assessment Center

Center:

MN-Institute on Community Integration, UCEDD/LEND

Fiscal Year:

2010

Contact Information:

Martha Thurlow
[email protected]
612-624-4826

Project Description:

National Alternate Assessment Center brings together and builds on the current research base on high quality, technically sound alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards and alternate assessments based on grade-level achievement standards. Additionally, it provides technical assistance to states as they endeavor to design or redesign their alternate assessments, and demonstrates through the center's partnerships with states high quality design and administration of alternate assessments. Based at the University of Kentucky, it operates in collaboration with the Institute on Community Integration's National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO); the University of North Carolina, Charlotte; CAST; and state partners Connecticut, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, and South Carolina. For more information, please visit: http://www.naacpartners.org

Keyword(s):

standards, assessment

Core Function(s):

Performing Technical Assistance and/or Training, Performing Research or Evaluation, Developing & Disseminating Information

Area of Emphasis

Other

Target Audience:

Professionals and Para-Professionals, Legislators/Policy Makers

Unserved or Under-served Populations:

None

Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:

National