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Other UDL Assessment Resources on the Web
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AccessIT: National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education AccessIT promotes the use of electronic and information technology (E&IT) for students and employees with disabilities in educational institutions at all academic levels. This Web site features the AccessIT Knowledge Base, a searchable, growing database of questions and answers regarding accessible E&IT. It is designed for educators, policy makers, librarians, technical support staff, and students and employees with disabilities and their advocates.

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Using Technology to support Diverse Learners This Web site contains links to a slide show, handouts, and related materials to help teachers integrate technology into the curriculum to support diverse learners. This site is well set out with lots of practical information. In particular, the links to the "tech tips" provide resources for classroom teachers regarding technology and software resources that they may already have access to in the classroom and would support learning of ALL students, following UDL principles. The focus in the site is on Differentiated Instruction which is a teaching theory based on the idea that instructional approaches should give students multiple options and perspectives for taking in information and expressing what they have learned.

Web Accessibility Results: No known accessibility problems [|Accessing the General Curriculum: Promoting a Universal Design for Learning](2000) **  This brief illustrates how universally-designed programs have been developed by merging technology, Universal Design, and brain research. Wiggleworks and eReader, programs created in part by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), are two of the programs described in this report. By Chuck Hitchcock, David Rose, & Lou Danielson, Washington, DC: the American Youth Policy Forum.
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 * [|Universally Designed Assessments] **

This Web resource from NCEO describes the benefits of developing and using universally designed assessments that are valid and accessible for the widest possible range of students, including students with disabilities and English language learners. A benefit of using universally designed assessments is that they result in less frequent, or more effective, use of accommodations. This resource includes a series of frequently asked questions and links to online resources, including research centers and articles.

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 This report, produced by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO), presents six core principles of inclusive assessment and accountability systems, with a brief rationale and specific characteristics for each principle. Based on a decade of research on assessment and accountability systems, and on reviews and comments from multiple stakeholders who share a commitment to improving outcomes for all students.
 * [|Principles and Characteristics of Inclusive Assessment and Accountability Systems (Synthesis Report 40)](2001) **

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 Researchers have developed systems of online learning environments that provide accommodations decision-making tools. STELLA models provide endless opportunities to explore by asking "what if," and watching what happens, inspiring the exciting ah-ha moments of learning. Research shows that accommodations delivered within a computer-based testing environment increase the consistency and integrity of accommodations and result in improved utilization by the student. Students should be provided with an optimum testing environment that allows maximum student engagement and persistence. Web Accessibility Results: 37 accessibility errors--all were missing alt text and missing form labels.
 * STELLA- Systems Thinking for Education and Research **

 **Pearson HTMLbook**

The UDL features in the Pearson HTMLbook align to specific checkpoints within the UDL Guidelines. Used with assistive technology, the HTMLbooks transform learning for students using textbooks, facilitating the learning process while promoting independence and success. This is a strong venture by Pearson into providing fully accessible Web-based textbooks. By incorporating features that are guided by UDL principles, Pearson is making strides in publishing curricular materials that will benefit all students' learning. Pearson, in utilizing [|NIMAS](National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard) source files for their HTMLbooks, has created content that can more easily be converted to accessible formats such as Braille and text-to-speech. Pearson issued thirteen high school titles in 2009 and is slated to add more in January 2010.

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This site provides information, links, articles and papers addressing the use of Universal Design principles to provide accommodations, enhancements, curricular planning, and assessment. The focus is on the use of technology to implement UDL principles.
 * National Center for Technology Innovation- Universal Design **

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=**UDL Assessment Slideshare Presentation **= Slideshare Website with Document Transcript media type="custom" key="6019187"

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Thompson, Johnstone & Thulow (2002). Universal Design Applied to Large Scale Assessment (Synthesis Report 44).
 * [|UDL In Assessments]**View more [|documents]from [|Scott Rains].