Use of Alternate Assessment Results in Reporting and Accountability Systems: Conditions for Use Based on Research and Practice (NCEO Synthesis Report)
TITLE Use of Alternate Assessment Results in Reporting and Accountability Systems: Conditions for Use Based on Research and Practice. Synthesis Report. INSTITUTION National Center on Educational Outcomes, Minneapolis, MN. SPONS AGENCY Special Education Programs (ED/OSERS), Washington, DC. REPORT NO NCEO-43 PUB DATE 2002-05-00 NOTE 37p.; In collaboration with: the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE). CONTRACT H326G000001 AVAILABLE FROM National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 350 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Rd., Minneapolis, MN 55455. For full text: http://education.umn.edu/NCEO/OnlinePubs/ Synthesis43.html. PUB TYPE Guides Non-Classroom (055) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Accountability; *Disabilities; Educational Assessment; *Educational Testing; Elementary Secondary Education; *Evaluation Methods; Program Development; Scoring; Standards; Student Evaluation; Student Participation; Testing Accommodations IDENTIFIERS Kentucky; North Carolina; Wyoming
Measuring Academic Achievement of Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities: Building Understanding of Alternate Assessment Scoring Criteria. Synthesis Report.
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Comparative Industrial Sociology and the Convergence Hypothesis
Industrial sociology grew spectacularly after World War II, concentrating on three areas: workers' relations with each other, their managers, and their unions; the social organization of the factory; and the impact of technology on social systems extending from the factory to the society. Unable to sus­ tain leadership in all of these areas, industrial sociology shrivelled as other fields invaded its domains. Human relations became the ideological property of the business schools; labor economics maintained its grip on industrial relations; industry-community relations waned as interest in community power soared; industrial organizations were absorbed into the study of com­ plex organizations; occupational sociology maintained research impetus in labor force analysis; and the sociology of the economy dominated the study of industry's institutional relationships. Industrial sociology survived on remnants: worker-machine relationships (job satisfaction, alienation, un­ employment), organizational responses to technological changes. and a bit of working-class ethnology. Enduring interest in technology, however, en­ abled industrial sociology to take part in sociology's expanding interest in comparative studies.