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Article: Teachers' Perceptions of One State's Alternate Assessment: Implications for Practice and Preparation.
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- Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Students with special needs are now being equally included in educational systems as a result of the 1997 Amendments of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA '97); (Kearns, Kleinert, Clayton, Burdge, & Williams, 1998; Kleinert, Kennedy, & Kearns, 1999). IDEA '97 mandates that all students with disabilities are to participate in the general curriculum, that they must be included in state and districtwide educational assessments, and that their scores must be reported as part of the educational results for all students. As individual states begin to design and implement their own assessment programs and policies, it is important to evaluate the efficacy and ...