General Curriculum Project Presentations

Alignment

1% GSEG Kick Off Meeting 2008- Linking Instruction and Assessment to Grade Level Content Standards

Maryland Conference for Assessment 2007- Alignment Issues for AA-AAS

NCME 2007 Comparison of Alignment Results for Alternate Assessments Based on Alternate Achievement Standards: Performance-based and Portfolio Formats

AERA 2007 Level of Symbolic Communication Classification for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

AERA 2007 Validation studies on the Curriculum Indicators Survey (CIS): Preliminary results.
 

ASES SCASS 2006- Links for Academic Learning: The UNC Charlotte Alignment Method for AA-AAS
-Proposal for how LAL relates to peer review guidelines

OSEP 2006 Creating Access to the General Curriculum with Links to Grade Level Content for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

NCME 2006 Measuring the Enacted Curriculum for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

AERA 2006 -- Alignment of Standards, Large-scale Assessments, and Curriculum: A Review of the Methodological and Empirical Literature

ASES SCASS 2005- Linking to Grade Level Content Standards for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

CCSSO 2005- Measurement Perspectives for Alignment

CCSSO 2005- Alignment of Alternate Assessments, Alternate Achievement Standards, and Academic Content Standards

China-United States Education Conference 2005, Beijing--The alignment of instruction and assessments.

AERA 2005 - An Analysis of Three States’ Alignment Between Language Arts and Mathematics Standards and Alternate Assessment

NCEO December 2004 Teleconference Presentation

Alternate Assessment

Power Point Presentations

Linking to Grade Level Content Standards for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities (ASES SCASS 2005)

What is? What should be? The Content of Alternate Assessments

What Impacts Alternate Assessment Scores

Research on the Alignment of Alternate Assessment

An Analysis of Three States Alignment Between Language Arts and Math Standards and Alternate Assessments

Evidence  Based Practices for Students with Severe Disabilities

Presentations

Spooner, F., Browder, D. M., Ahlgrim-Delzell, L, & Kohprasert, K. (2005, April). National surveys research in alternate assessment: Parent, teachers, and administrators. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children, Baltimore.

Spooner, F., Ahlgrim-Delzell, L., & Kohprasert, K. (2004, November). Survey findings on the impact of alternate assessment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of TASH, Reno, NV.

Flowers, C., Ahlgrim-Delzell, L., Browder, D. M., & Spooner, F. (2004, April). Impact of alternate assessment: Results of a teacher survey in five states. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego.

Spooner, F., & Browder, D. M. (2004, February). Academic and functional content in states’ alternate assessment performance indicators. Invited address presented at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Association for Behavior Analysis, Wrightsville Beach.

Spooner, F., Browder, D. M., & Ahlgrim-Delzell, L. (2003, December). Curriculum philosophies reflected in states alternate assessments. Paper presented at the annual meeting of TASH, Chicago.

Browder, D. M., Spooner, F., Ahlgrim-Delzell, L., & Davis, S. (2003, June). Getting informed about alternate assessment. Presentation for Teleconferences on Quality Education in the General Classroom for Students with Significant Disabilities. Baltimore: TASH [Available: http://www.tash.org/tc03ed/0626]   

Browder, D. M., Spooner, F., Ahlgrim-Delzell, L., Flowers, C., & Algozzine, B. (2003, May). A content analysis of the curricular philosophies reflected in states’ alternate assessment performance indicators. In F. Spooner (Chair), Accessing the general curriculum. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, San Francisco

Spooner, F. (2003, June). Perspectives on alternate assessment. Paper presented at the Second National Summit on the Shared Implementation of IDEA. Arlington, VA.

RAISE Literacy Project

TASH 2007 Evaluation of an Early Literacy Program for Students with Significant Developmental Disabilities. Reference:

Browder, D. M., Ahlgrim-Delzell, L., & Zakas, T. (2007). Evaluation of an early literacy program for students with significant developmental disabilities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of The Association for Persons with Severe handicaps, Seattle, WA.

Gibbs, S., Browder, D., Courtade, G., Ahlgrim-Delzell, L.,& Lee, A. (2007, April). An emergent literacy intervention for students with autism and significant cognitive disabilities. Annual Conference of the Council for Exceptional Children, Louisville, KY.

Reading, Writing, Math, and Science

Literacy:
Browder, D., Courtade, G., & Jimenez, B. (2007, February). Reading, math, and science for middle school students with significant cognitive disabilities. International Division for Developmental Disabilities (CEC) Conference. Kona, Hawaii.
 

Math:      
Trela, K. (2006, November). Reading and Math for Students with Significant Disabilities in Secondary Settings. Presentation at the annual meeting of TASH Baltimore, MD.

 

Science:
Courtade, G., & Flowers, C. (2007, March). Developing competence in science for students with significant cognitive disabilities. Invited speaker. National Center for Educational Outcomes Teleconference on Best Practice and Policy Considerations in Science Teaching and Testing for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities.