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• Kearns, J. (2009, April). Assessment Population in AA-AAAS? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego. (PDF : 1709 Kb)
• Kearns J., Thurlow M., Towles-Reeves, E. (2009, April). Who are the Students in Alternate and Modified Achievement Standards. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego. (PDF : 2444 Kb)
• Karvonen, M., Flowers, C., & Wakeman, S. Y. (2009, April). Predictors of access to the general curriculum for students with significant cognitive disabilities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego.
• Flowers, C., Browder, D., & Wakeman, S. (2007, April). Level of symbolic communication classification for students with significant cognitive disabilities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. (PDF : 63 Kb)
• Karvonen, M., Wakeman, S., Flowers, C., & Browder, D. (2007, April).Validation studies on the Curriculum Indicators Survey (CIS): Preliminary results. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. (PDF : 54 Kb)
• Towles-Reeves, E., Kearns, J., Kleinert, H., & Kleinert, J. (2007, April). Learner characteristics inventory: Describing the characteristics of students taking the alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. (PDF : 107 Kb)
• Karvonen, M., Wakeman, S., & Flowers, C. (2006). Alignment of standards, large-scale assessments, and curriculum: A Review of the methodological and empirical iterature. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. (PDF : 47 Kb)

• Browder, D., & Flowers, C. (2006). : The UNC Charlotte alignment method for AA-AAS. . Paper presented at the meeting of the Assessment of Special Education Students-State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards, Washington, D.C. (PDF : 262 Kb)
• Browder, D. (2005, October). Linking to grade level content for students with significant cognitive disabilities. . Paper presented at the meeting of the Assessment of Special Education Students-State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards, Albuquerque, NM. (PDF : 316 Kb)

• • Kleinert, J. & Kearns, J. (2008). Alternate Assessments on Alternate Achievement Standards: What Speech Language Therapists Need to Know. American Speech-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.
• Kleinert, J., Towles-Reeves, E., Kearns, J., & Kleinert, H. (2007, November).Communication characteristics of students in alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA. (PDF : 14899 Kb)

• Clayton, J., Denham, A., Kearns, J. (2009, June). Raggedy Ann or Student Performance: Construct Relevance in Alternate Achievement Standards Assessments. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Chief State School Officers Large-Scale Assessment Conference, Los Angeles, CA. (PDF : 1504 Kb)
• Fincher, M., Forte, E., Goldstein, J., Marion, S (2009, June). Validity Evaluation of AA-AAS: Emerging Findings and Building a Validity Argument NAAC and NCIEA with Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kentucky, Puerto Rico. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Chief State School Officers Large-Scale Assessment Conference, Los Angeles, CA. (PDF : 84 Kb)
• Fincher, M., Roach A.(2009, June). Georgia Alternate Assessment Validity Studies: Review of Progress to Date.Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Chief State School Officers Large-Scale Assessment Conference, Los Angeles, CA. (PDF : 2518 Kb)
• Forte, E. (2009, June).Validity Evaluation of Assessments based on Alternate Achievement Standards: In Progress in the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Chief State School Officers Large-Scale Assessment Conference, Los Angeles, CA. (PDF : 170 Kb)
• Goldstein J. (2009, June). Developing a Validity Argument for the CMT/CAPT Skills Checklist. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Chief State School Officers Large-Scale Assessment Conference, Los Angeles, CA. (PDF : 171 Kb)
• Marion, S. (2009, June). Validity evaluations of states’ AA-AAS: Arguments and initial findings. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Chief State School Officers Large-Scale Assessment Conference, Los Angeles, CA. (PDF : 62 Kb)
• Gong, B., Hess, K., Kearns, J. (2008). Curriculum Progressions: Curriculum Access, Getting From Here to There. CCSSO Student Assessment Conference, Orlando, FL. (PDF : 4608 Kb)
• Kearns et al. (2008). Alternate Assessments on Alternate Achievement Standards: Assessment Formats. CCSSO: Student Assessment Conference, Orlando, FL. (PDF : 1766 Kb)
• Marion, Kearns, J., Stuck, J., Fincher, M. (2008). Validity Evaluation of Alternate Achievement Standards Assessments. CCSSO Student Assessment Conference. Orlando, Florida.
• Perie, M., Kearns, J., Stuck, J (2008).Setting Standards for Alternate Assessments on Alternate Achievement Standards. CCSSO Student Assessment Conference. Orlando, FL. (PDF : 2733 Kb)
• Kearns, J., Marion, S., Fedorchak, G., & Rogers, P. (2007, June). You said, I heard: Speaking to your TAC about alternate assessment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Chief State School Officers Large-Scale Assessment Conference, Nashville, TN. (PDF : 1886 Kb)
• Marion, S.F., Kearns, J., Weiner, D., Kennedy, S., and Behuniak, P. (2007). A validity-based approach for evaluating the technical quality of alternate assessments. Session presented at the Council of Chief State School Officer’s Annual Large Scale Assessment Conference. June 17-20. Nashville, TN.
  • Part I. (PDF : 126 Kb)
  • Part II. (PDF : 88 Kb)
  • Part III. (PDF : 47 Kb)
  • Part IV. (PDF : 31 Kb)
• Towles-Reeves, E., Kearns, J., Rogers, P., & Kennedy, S. (2007, June). What do we really know about students taking alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Chief State School Officers Large-Scale Assessment Conference, Nashville, TN. (PDF : 258 Kb)
• Marion, S.F., Gong, B., Quenemoen, R., & Fincher, M. (2006). A Framework and Approaches for Setting Cutscores on Alternate Assessments. Session presented at the Council of Chief State School Officer’s Annual Large Scale Assessment Conference. June 25-28, 2006, San Francisco, CA.
  • Part I. (PDF : 90 Kb)
  • Part II. (PDF : 74 Kb)
  • Part III. (PDF : 324 Kb)
• Marion, S.F., Quenemoen, R., Sweeney, K., & Fedorchak, G. (2006). Psychometricians can be helpful too: New approaches for evaluating the technical quality of alternate assessments. Session presented at the Council of Chief State School Officer’s Annual Large Scale Assessment Conference. June 25-28, 2006, San Francisco, CA.
  • Part I. (PDF : 4763 Kb)
  • Part II. (PDF : 68 Kb)
  • Part III. (PDF : 49 Kb)
• Marion, S.F., Pellegrino, J., Thurlow, M., & Fedorchak, G. (2005). Knowing What Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities Know: Constructing the assessment triangle of alternate assessments. Session presented at the Council of Chief State School Officer’s Annual Large Scale Assessment Conference. June 19-22, 2005, San Antonio, TX. (PDF : 384 Kb)

• Browder, D. & Mims, P. (2010, April) Planning for Instructional Alignment. Paper presented at the 2010 conference of the Council for Exceptional Children, Nashville, TN. (PDF : 307 Kb)
• Kearns, J., Browder, D., Mims, P. & Quenemoen, M (2010, April). What do we know and what are we learning about alternate assessments? Paper presented at the 2010 conference of the Council for Exceptional Children, Nashville, TN. (PDF : 1380 Kb)
• Quenemoen, M (2010, April). NCEO / NAAC 2009 State Survey – AA-AAS. Paper presented at the 2010 conference of the Council for Exceptional Children, Nashville, TN. (PDF : 953 Kb)
• Towles-Reeves, E., Kearns, J., & Stuck, J. (2008, April) Understanding the learning characteristics of students taking alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards. Presentation at the Council for Exceptional Children’s (CEC) Annual Conference. Boston, MA. (PDF : 1151 Kb)
• Browder, D., Meier, I., & Kearns, J. (2007, April). NCLB: What’s changing in education for students with significant cognitive disabilities? Paper presented at the 2007 conference of the Council for Exceptional Children, Louisville, KY. (PDF : 379 Kb)
• Burdge, M., & Towles-Reeves, E. (2006, April). Teachers' perceptions of one state's alternate assessment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children, Salt Lake City, UT. (PDF : 123 Kb)
• Clayton, J., Denham, A., & Schnittker, A. (2006, April). Stepwise process to access grade level content standards and curriculum. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children, Salt Lake City, UT. (PDF : 4166 Kb)
• Kearns, J. (2006, April). National alternate assessment center. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children, Salt Lake City, UT. (PDF : 428 Kb)
• Kearns, J., & Browder, D. (2006, April). 1%, 2%: All for learning! What do we know? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children, Salt Lake City, UT. (PDF : 400 Kb)
• Kearns, J., & Browder, D. (2006, April). What we know about alternate assessment learners and how they acquire skills in reading and math. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children, Salt Lake City, UT. (PDF : 2858 Kb)
• Lee, L., & Lewis, P. (2006, April). Universal design solutions in instruction and assessment: Explore the opportunity of accessible technology-based assessment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children, Salt Lake City, UT. (PDF : 850 Kb)

• Maryland Assessment Research Center for Educational Success (URL : External)

• Marion S. & Pellegrino, J. (2009, April). Validity framework for evaluating the technical quality of alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, IL. (PDF : 102 Kb)
• Flowers, C., Karvonen, M., Wakeman, S., & Browder, D. (2007, April). Comparison of alignment results for alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards: Performance-based and portfolio formats. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, IL. (PDF : 133 Kb)
• Karvonen, M., Wakeman, S., Flowers, C., & Browder, D. (2006, April). Measuring the enacted curriculum for students with significant cognitive disabilities. Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Francisco, CA. (PDF : 145 Kb)

• Warlick, K. (2005, June). Large scale assessment of students with significant cognitive disabilities. Presentation at the annual meeting of the NSW Special Education Conference, Sydney, Australia. (PDF : 906 Kb)
• Warlick, K. (2005, June). Linking to content standards - selecting assessment content, Is it reading? Is it mathematics? Presentation at the annual meeting of the NSW Special Education Conference, Sydney, Australia. (PDF : 867 Kb)

• Browder, D., Wakeman, S. Y., & Jimenez, B. (2006, June). Creating access to the general curriculum with links to grade level content for students with significant cognitive disabilities. Presentation at the OSEP Leadership Conference, Washington, D.C. (PDF : 382 Kb)
• Kearns, J. (2005, March). National alternate assessment center. Presentation at the OSEP Leadership Conference, Washington, D.C. (PDF : 224 Kb)
• Malouf, D., Rigney, S., Kearns, J., & Bryant, C. (2005, March). National alternate assessment center. Presentation at the OSEP Leadership Conference, Washington, D.C. (PDF : ?? Kb)

• Kearns, J., Thurlow, M., Towles-Reeves, E. (2008). Who are the students in alternate and modified achievement standards assessments? Presentation at the annual meeting of the Office of Special Education Programs Project Directors’ Conference, Washington, D.C. (PDF : 2673 Kb)
• Browder, D., Flowers, C., & Wakeman, S. Y. (2007, July). : The application of the alignment model for AA-AAS across multiple assessment formats. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Office of Special Education Programs Project Directors’ Conference, Washington, D.C.
• Kearns, J. (2006, July). The future of alternate assessments: What we will know and be able to do. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Office of Special Education Programs Project Directors’ Conference, Washington, D.C. (PDF : 248 Kb)
• Towles-Reeves, E. (2005, July). Alternate assessments in 2010: What will we know? Presentation at the annual meeting of the Office of Special Education Programs Project Directors’ Conference, Washington, D.C. (PDF : 199 Kb)
• Warlick, K., & Towles-Reeves, E. (2005, July). Current issues in alternate assessment on alternate achievement standards. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Office of Special Education Programs Project Directors’ Conference, Washington, D.C. (PDF : 199 Kb)

• Kearns, J. (2008). Using data to make decisions. Presentation at the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) 1% Meeting. Washington, D.C. (PDF : 5280 Kb)
• Kearns, J., & Kennedy, S. (2007). Deficient, proficient, magnificent: Setting achievement standards for alternate assessments. Presentation at the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) 1% Meeting. Washington, D.C. (PDF : 128 Kb)

• 2007
  • Burdge, M. (2007, December). An overview of a four-step process for accessing the general curriculum. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Seattle, WA. (PDF : 236 Kb)
  • Clayton, J. (2007, December). Outcomes of instruction: Step two of the process for accessing the general curriculum. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Seattle, WA. (PDF : 212 Kb)
  • Denham, A. (2007, December). Step three of a four step process for accessing the general curriculum. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Seattle, WA. (PDF : 1594 Kb)
  • Land, L., & Denham, A. (2007, December). Step four: Embedding IEP goals and objectives in grade-level standards-based instruction. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Seattle, WA. (PDF : 273 Kb)
  • Taub, D. (2007, December). Understanding the standards: Step one. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Seattle, WA. (PDF : 412 Kb)
  • Wickham, D., & Lederer, L. (2007, December). Functional curriculum and academic standards-based curriculum: Competing for your child’s time? Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Seattle, WA. (PDF : 207 Kb)
  • Wickham, D., Taub, D., Burdge, M., Land, L., Clayton, J., & Denham, A. (2007, December). Best practices in educating students with significant cognitive disabilities and alternate assessment: Competing or complementary practices. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Seattle, WA. (PDF : 60 Kb)
• 2006
  • Burdge, M., Denham, A., Clayton, J., Land, L., Taub, D., Wickham, D., & Towles-Reeves, E. (2006, November). Teaching the 4 step model: Taking grade level standards and identifying how to teach content relevant to student. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Baltimore, MD. (PDF : 1142 Kb)
  • Clayton, J., Land, L., Burdge, M., Denham, A., Taub, D., Wickham, D., & Towles-Reeves, E. (2006, November). Identifying grade level curriculum that is relevant to a student’s life and teaching that. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Baltimore, MD. (PDF : 472 Kb)
  • Land, L., Burdge, M., Clayton, J., Denham, A., Taub, D., Wickham, D., & Towles-Reeves, E. (2006, November). Functional curriculum and what it was designed to do. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Baltimore, MD. (PDF : 604 Kb)
  • Towles-Reeves, E., Wickham, D., Burdge, M., Clayton, J., Denham, A., Taub, D., & Land, L. (2006, November). Crackerbarrel: How to appropriately teach students with significant cognitive disabilities in an age of accountability. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Baltimore, MD. (PDF : 171 Kb)
  • Wickham, D., Towles-Reeves, E., Clayton, J., Denham, A., Land, L., Taub, D., & Burdge, M. (2006, November). NCLB and IDEA focus on grade level curriculum and the role of alternate assessments. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Baltimore, MD. (PDF : 163 Kb)
• 2005
  • Burdge, M., Clayton, J., & Jorgensen, C. (2005, November). Inclusion through the front door: Learning academic content standards. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Milwaukee, WI. (PDF : 30907 Kb)
  • Calie, M., Calie, M., & Burdge, M. (2005, November). Inclusion through the front door: Academic content. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Milwaukee, WI. (PDF : 1230 Kb)
  • Quenemoen, R., Land, L., Calie, M., Calie, M., & Burdge, M. (2005, November). The promise of access. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH, Milwaukee, WI. (PDF : 28813 Kb)

• Towles-Reeves, E. (2007, November). Alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards: Principals‘ perceptions. Presentation at the Kentucky Exceptional Children’s Conference. Louisville, KY. (PDF : ?? Kb)
• Browder, D., Flowers, C., & Wakeman, S.Y. (2006, March). The student profiles survey. Paper presented at the 2006 conference of the North Carolina Association for Research in Education, Hickory, NC. (PDF : ?? Kb)
• Karvonen, M., Wakeman, S.Y., Flowers, C., & Browder, D. (2006, March). Measuring the enacted curriculum for students with significant disabilities. Paper presented at the 2006 conference of the North Carolina Association for Research in Education, Hickory, NC. (PDF : ?? Kb)

• National Alternate Assessment Center. (2008, March). Advisory board year V: Part I: Overview, activities, and accomplishments. Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Alternate Assessment Center’s Advisory Board, Alexandria, VA. (PDF : 341 Kb)
• National Alternate Assessment Center. (2007, March). Advisory board year III: Part I: Overview, activities, and accomplishments. Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Alternate Assessment Center’s Advisory Board, Alexandria, VA. (PDF : 482 Kb)
• National Alternate Assessment Center. (2006, March). NAAC Advisory Board Meeting 2006. Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Alternate Assessment Center’s Advisory Board, Alexandria, VA. (PDF : 210 Kb)
• National Alternate Assessment Center. (2005, March). NAAC Advisory Board Meeting 2005. Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Alternate Assessment Center’s Advisory Board, Alexandria, VA. (PDF : 114 Kb)

• Flowers, C., Browder, D., & Wakeman, S. Y. (2007). : An alignment protocol for alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards. Workshop for alignment vendors: Lexington, KY. (URL : Internal)
• Flowers, C., & Wakeman, S. Y. (2007). : An alignment protocol for alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards. Workshop to Measured Progress: Dover, NH. (URL : Internal)

• National Alternate Assessment Center (NAAC). (2006, October). Inclusive assessment seminar. Alexandria, VA.
• National Alternate Assessment Center (NAAC). (2006, October). Inclusive assessment seminar. Denver, CO.
  
• PRESENTATIONS
  
  
  These presentations are meant to solely provide a quick introduction to each of these topics related to the validity evaluation of alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards. For more in-depth information, please contact Liz Towles-Reeves.
  
  • DePascale, C. (2006). Consistency and Reliability. Presentation at the Inclusive Assessment Seminar, Denver, CO / Alexandria, VA. (PDF : 156 Kb)
  • Gong, B., & Flowers, C. (2006). Alignment. Presentation at the Inclusive Assessment Seminar, Denver, CO / Alexandria, VA. (PDF : 105 Kb)
  • Kearns, J. (2006). Assessment Population. Presentation at the Inclusive Assessment Seminar, Denver, CO / Alexandria, VA. (PDF : 194 Kb)
  • Marion, S. (2006). Comparability. Presentation at the Inclusive Assessment Seminar, Denver, CO / Alexandria, VA. (PDF : 95 Kb)
  • Perie, M. (2006). Standard Setting. Presentation at the Inclusive Assessment Seminar, Denver, CO / Alexandria, VA. (PDF : 112 Kb)
  • Towles-Reeves, E. (2006). Consequential Validity. Presentation at the Inclusive Assessment Seminar, Denver, CO / Alexandria, VA. (PDF : 83 Kb)

  
  
• MATERIALS
  
  
  These materials comprise a draft technical manual workbook to be used as an example. The opinions expressed within this document do not reflect the position or policy of the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs and no official endorsement should be inferred. If you need assistance or have further questions related to any of these materials, please contact Liz Towles-Reeves.
  
  • New Hampshire Enhanced Assessment Grant, National Alternate Assessment Center, & National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment. (2006, October). Documenting the technical quality of your state’s alternate assessment system: An annotated workbook: Volume I: "Nuts and bolts". Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, National Alternate Assessment Center. (PDF : 175 Kb)
  • New Hampshire Enhanced Assessment Grant, National Alternate Assessment Center, & National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment. (2006, October). An annotated workbook for documenting the technical quality of your state’s alternate assessment system: Volume II: The validity evaluation. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, National Alternate Assessment Center. (PDF : 34 Kb)
  • Connecticut State Department of Education. (2006, October). CMT-CAPT Skills Checklist Technical Manual. Hartford, CT. (PDF : 598 Kb)

  
  

• WORKSHOP
  
  
  • Towles-Reeves, E., Burdge, M., & Land, L. (2006, March). Assessing students with the most significant cognitive disabilities.Workshop to the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Annual Convention. Anaheim, CA.(PDF : ?? Kb)
  
  
• PRESENTATIONS
  
  
  • Towles-Reeves, E., Burdge, M., & Land, L. (2006, March). Taking a look at alternate assessment: Assessing students with the most significant cognitive disabilities: Step 1. Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, Anaheim, CA. (PDF : 150 Kb)
  • Towles-Reeves, E., Burdge, M., & Land, L. (2006, March). Step 2: Why is this happening? Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, Anaheim, CA. (PDF : 126 Kb)
  • Towles-Reeves, E., Burdge, M., & Land, L. (2006, March). Step 3: What is alternate assessment? Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, Anaheim, CA. (PDF : 136 Kb)
  • Towles-Reeves, E., Burdge, M., & Land, L. (2006, March). Step 4: Who are the students who take alternate assessments on alternate achievement standards? Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, Anaheim, CA. (PPT : 799 Kb)
  • Towles-Reeves, E., Burdge, M., & Land, L. (2006, March). Step 5: Changing curricular context for students with the most significant disabilities: Articulating the population. Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, Anaheim, CA. (PDF : 271 Kb)
  • Towles-Reeves, E., Burdge, M., & Land, L. (2006, March). Step 6: Linking to content standards: Is it reading? Is it mathematics? Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, Anaheim, CA. (PPT : 1924 Kb)

  
  

• National Alternate Assessment Center. (2005, June). Access and alignment to grade level content for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities: A training module for large-scale use. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Council for Chief State School Officers Large-Scale Assessment Conference, San Antonio, TX. (URL : Internal)

• Kearns, Towles-Reeves, Kleinert, H. & Kleinert, J., Thomas, M. (in submissiom). Alternate Achievement Standards Assessments: Understanding the Student Population.
• Towles-Reeves, E., Kleinert, H. & Anderman, L. (in submission). Principal’s perceptions of alternate achievement standards assessments.
• Flowers, C., Wakeman, S. Y., Browder, D., & Karvonen, M. (2009). Links for Academic Learning: A conceptual model for investigating alignment of alternate assessment systems based on alternate achievement standards. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practices, 28(1), 25-37.
• Kleinert, H. (2009). 2008 NAAC Products (PDF : 561 Kb )
• Kleinert, H., Browder, D., & Towles-Reeves, E. (2009). Models of cognition for students with significant cognitive disabilities: Implications for assessment. Review of Educational Research.
• Towles-Reeves, E., Kearns, J., Kleinert, H., & Kleinert, J. (2009). An analysis of the learning characteristics of students taking alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards. Journal of Special Education.
• Towles-Reeves, E., Kleinert, H., & Muhomba, M. (2009). Alternate assessment: Have we learned anything new? Exceptional Children.
• Browder, D. M., Flowers, C., & Wakeman, S. Y. (2008). Facilitating participation in assessments and the general curriculum: Level of symbolic communication classification for students with significant cognitive disabilities. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy, and Practice, 15(2), 137-151.
• Browder, D. M., Wakeman, S. Y., Flowers, C., Rickelman, R. J., Pugalee, D., & Karvonen, M. (2007).Creating access to the general curriculum with links to grade level content for students with significant cognitive disabilities: An explication of the concept. Journal of Special Education, 41(1), 2-16. (URL : External)
• Flowers, C., Wakeman, S., Browder, D., & Karvonen, M. (2007). : An alignment protocol for alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards. Charlotte, NC: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, National Alternate Assessment Center. (URL : Internal)
• Hess, K. (2007). Alignment study final report: District of Columbia public schools’ comprehensive assessment system: Alternate assessment (DC CAS-Alt). Dover, NH: National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment. (PDF : 301 Kb)
  • Washington, DC Alignment Study Report - Appendix C-1 (PDF : 35 Kb)
  • Washington, DC Alignment Study Report - Appendix C-2 (PDF : 23 Kb)
  • Washington, DC Alignment Study Report - Appendix C-3 (PDF : 35 Kb)
  • Washington, DC Alignment Study Report - Appendix C-4 (PDF : 301 Kb)
• Kearns, J., & Towles-Reeves, E. (2007). Who are the Students who take Alternate Achievement Standards Assessments? (PPT : 19136 Kb)
• Quenemoen, R. (2007, March). How NCLB affects students with disabilities? Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education Hearing, March 29, 2007, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC.(URL : External)
• Browder, D. M., Spooner, F., Wakeman, S. Y., Trela, K., & Baker, J. (2006). Aligning instruction with academic content standards: Finding the link. Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 31, 309-321. (URL : External)
• Clayton, J., Burdge, M., Denham, A., Kleinert, H., & Kearns, J. (2006). A four-step process for accessing the general curriculum for students with significant cognitive disabilities. Teaching Exceptional Children, 38(5), 20-27. (URL : External)
• Towles-Reeves, E., & Kleinert, H. (2006). The impact of one state’s alternate assessment upon instruction and IEP development. Rural Special Education Quarterly, 25(3), 31-39. (URL : External)
• Flowers, C., Ahlgrim-Delzell, L., Browder, D., & Spooner, F. (2005). Teachers' perceptions of alternate assessments. Research & Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 30(2), 81-92. (URL : External)
• Horvath, L., Kampfer-Bohach, S., & Kearns, J. (2005). The use of accommodations among students with deafblindness in large-scale assessment systems. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 16(3), 177-187. (URL : External)
• Moore-Lamminen, L., & Olsen, K. (2005). Alternate assessment: Teacher and state experiences. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, Alliance for Systems Change/Mid-South Regional Resource Center. (PDF : 413 Kb)
• Denham, A. (2004). Pathways to learning for students with cognitive challenges: Reading, writing, and presenting. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute. (PDF : 990 Kb)

• Kearns, J., Lewis, P., Hall, T., & Kleinert, H. (2007). Universal design of alternate assessment on alternate achievement standards: Concepts, issues and strategies. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, National Alternate Assessment Center. (PDF : 633 Kb)
• Perie, M. (2007). Setting alternate achievement standards. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, National Alternate Assessment Center. (PDF : 467 Kb)
• Gong, B., & Marion, S. (2006). Dealing with flexibility in assessments for students with significant cognitive disabilities. Dover, NH: National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment. (PDF : 202 Kb)
• Kleinert, H., Browder, D., & Towles-Reeves, E. (2005). The assessment triangle and students with significant cognitive disabilities: Models of student cognition. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, National Alternate Assessment Center. (PDF : 145 Kb)

• NAAC Teleconference: Considering Alignment Issues related to Alternate Assessments based on Alternate Achievement Standards: The Links for Academic Learning Alignment Model: September 25, 2007:  (URL : Internal)
• NCEO Teleconference 14: March 12, 2007: (URL : External)
• NCEO Teleconference 13: September 25, 2006: (URL : External)
• NCEO Teleconference 12: May 1, 2006: (URL : External)
• NCEO Teleconference 11: February 6, 2006: (URL : External)
• NCEO Teleconference 10: March 21, 2005: (URL : External)
• NCEO Teleconference 9: December 13, 2004: (URL : External)

• Towles-Reeves and Kearns (2008). Learner Characteristics Report State A. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, National Alternate Assessment Center.
• Towles-Reeves and Kearns (2008). Learner Characteristics Report State B. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, National Alternate Assessment Center.
• Towles-Reeves and Kearns (2008). Learner Characteristics Report State C. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, National Alternate Assessment Center.
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