Louis Danielson

Students with reading and language disabilities make up the largest group of students with disabilities. The majority of these students will participate in their state assessment with or without accommodations. Very little is known about the effects of these accommodations on standardized test scores, yet states continue to allow different accommodations for their state assessment. The purpose of this study is to identify a set of valid accommodations that could be provided to students with ...

Students with disabilities pursuing grade-level academic content standards and attending general education classes can be hindered by their disabilities and other cognitive limitations in demonstrating what they know in regular grade-level state assessments. For these students, the regular grade-level state assessments may not provide reliable and valid information about their academic achievements. This project will identify specific cognitive barriers in grade-level reading and mathematics...