IDEA requires that students with disabilities take part in state or districtwide assessments. These are tests that are periodically given to all students to measure achievement. It is one way that schools determine how well and how much students are learning. It's the responsibility of the IEP team to decide how the student with a disability will participate, and then to document that decision in the child's IEP. To support the participation of children with disabilities in such large-scale testing, accommodations or modifications may be necessary in how the test is administered or how a given child takes the test. This edition of NASET's Assessment in Special Education series focuses on accommodations in assessment.

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