Sentences with phrase «of nondisabled students»

Youth enrolled in special education also experience higher rates of suspension: in 2011, students with disabilities were suspended at twice the rate of nondisabled students.

If learning test - taking skills enhances the performance of nondisabled students on tests, then learning test - taking skills improves the life prospects of students with disabilities, too.

The effect was to give a randomly selected group of nondisabled students extra time, about the equivalent of time and a half.

Not exact matches

The current system of procedural accountability within special education law is a logical response to the problems that led Congress in 1975 to enact the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA): the total exclusion of some students with disabilities, the inadequate education of others, and the segregation of those in school from their nondisabled peers.

Yet the panel majority concluded, «This finding is consistent with the argument that students with disabilities need more time to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and abilities than the nondisabled students, and suggests that the scores of these students taken under the condition of extended time are more representative of their true performance than are the scores they would obtain from a standard administration.»

Accommodations like extended time, they believe, are necessary to equalize the testing experience for disabled and nondisabled students and thus make the scores of disabled students more valid.

Indeed, Robert Brennan of the University of Iowa (who directs the Iowa testing programs), the psychometrician who said «no» and voted with the minority, wrote, «Crucial evidence from prediction studies does not support a conclusion that scores on College Board standardized tests administered with extended time to disabled students are comparable to scores on the same tests administered to nondisabled students without extended time.»

The use of gain scores also minimizes the incentives for classifying a nondisabled student as disabled, since such scores measure individual progress instead of lowering the achievement bar.

On average, the direct costs of providing the services required by the IDEA — which do not include the exorbitant transaction costs — is twice that for educating the average nondisabled student.

«The elimination of state requirements specific to class size will best ensure that each student with disabilities is placed in the least restrictive environment (LRE), as directed by his or her Individualized Education Program (IEP), and has access to the broad array of coursework available to his or her nondisabled peers, particularly in the middle grades and high school.»

Inclusion contemplates the placement of students with disabilities in the regular classroom with nondisabled students as a right and implies that the right is an absolute.

an explanation of the extent, if any, to which the student will not participate with nondisabled children in the regular education environment;

This model excluded some students from the general education curriculum, standard modes of instruction, and social interaction with nondisabled peers for some or all of each day.

Report academic performance of students with disabilities with the same regularity as is done for nondisabled students.

Elementary Learning Center (ELC) serves students through a continuum of services in self - contained classes with opportunities to be included with nondisabled peers in the general education environment.