The Office for Exceptional Children (OEC) recognizes the relationship between procedural compliance and improved results for students with disabilities while promoting the effective use of data to drive educational decisions at all levels.
OEC has developed a tool that provides examples of IEP statements with the opportunity to identify strategically designed statements that support improved student performance, minimally compliant statements and noncompliant statements. Individuals can use this tool to compare their IEP development strategies with strategies designed to improve student performance. Small and large groups can use the tool for staff inservice. OEC uses the tool to achieve inter-rater agreement as it identifies and corrects noncompliance.
The tool presents three sample IEP statements:
1) strategically designed to improve student performance,
2) minimally compliant and
3) not compliant.
The user determines which label applies to each statement and the tool provides rationale for the correct response. When the user is comfortable with the criteria for developing a strategically designed statement, the tool then presents a test question. It evaluates the user’s response and calculates a score. At the end of the program, the user receives a final score including areas that require additional training, and a list of resources that the user can access for technical assistance.
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