www.doe.state.de.us/aab

Delaware Student Testing Program (DSPT) home page. This is Delaware's version of the testing mandated by No Child Left Behind. There are lots of links off this page including a set of guidelines for kids with IEPs and 504 plans. Those inclusion guidelines for the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 school years are some of the docs you'll find on this page. The Delaware DOE School Accountability page contains lots of links related to- you guessed it, School Accountability.

dstp.doe.k12.de.us/DSTPmart/

This is the publicly available DSTP reporting portal. From here, you can get detailed data down to just about everything except the student level. To focus in on a sub-group like the students with disabilities, you need to look at the "disaggregated" data. That data is available state-wide, by district or even school. First, pick the entity you want to analyze - state, district or school. Zooming in on the disaggregated reports from there is a matter of selecting the report date (i.e. Spring 2005) for which you want the details. Through this site you can check how well the students at a particular school are performing on the DSTP relative to other schools, districts or the state as a whole.

www.dapaonline.org

The Delaware Alternate Portfolio Assessment (DAPA) is the State of Delaware assessment of students with severe cognitive disabilities in grades 2-11.

www.ed.gov/about/reports/annual/nclbrpts.html

This is technically not a DSTP site but rather the National collection point for all States' equivalent of the DSTP scores. Remember, No Child Left Behind required every State to develop a test to measure students' performance. In Delaware, the test is called the DSTP. This site lets you compare Delaware's results to other states. However, keep in mind that since each State has their own standards and tests, it is not a strict apples-to-apples comparison.

miva.delawareonline.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?newsjournal/testscores2005.mv

miva.delawareonline.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?newsjournal/testscores2004.mv

miva.delawareonline.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?newsjournal/testscores2003.mv

The yearly Wilmington News Journal's summary reports on the DSTP scores by district and by school.

www.udel.edu/cds/dapa

The Delaware Alternate Portfolio Assessment (DAPA) is the alternative assessment to DSTP for "students with the most signifigant cognitive disabilities".  Read the US Deprtment of Education (DOE) posting on Raising Achievement: Alternate Assessments for Students with Disabilities which outlines policies states must follow when counting scores of students whose progress is measured with alternate assessments. Another document with good information is contains Non-Regulatory Guidance on Alternate Assessments from the Federal DOE.

www.picofdel.org/related/udl.htm

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to creating a common curriculum that is easily adaptable to different styles of learning. These styles may be accommodated through the presentation form (written text, Braille, recorded audio), through the means of expression and control (photography, art, drama, music, video, animation) and multiple means of engagement and motivation (customization of the materials to keep students interested). In many instances, computer technologies are an appropriate mechanism to facilitate content delivery and control. You can download a paper on UDL off the link above or from this web site here.

www.doe.state.de.us/englangarts/assessment.htm

What the Language Arts (Reading and Writing) portions of the DSPT are and how they are graded. This includes sample scored tests with reasons why they received the score they did. If you want to know what is expected on the writing portion of the DSTP, this is where to go.

www.doe.state.de.us/aab/DSTP_research.html

Research section of the State DOE DSTP page. This page has links to los of academic reports on standardized testing in general. One of the reports on this page is the Inclusive Comprehensive Assessment System Project which was a study on how the DSTP tests fit in with children with learning disabilities and low English proficiency (attachments backing up the study are separate from the main document.). 

www.doe.state.de.us/info/curriculum
State DOE Curriculum Page. At the time of this writing, the link to the Teacher's Desk Reference off the Professional and Curriculum link had the the key subjects defined in a different format but there is other good information off the other links too. 
 

www.ld.org/NCLB/NCLB.cfm

National Center for Learning Disabilities NCLB Parents Briefs. This is a page with some really good info on NCLB tests, accomodations, etc.

www.doe.state.de.us/DPIServices/Desk_Ref/DOE_DeskRef.htm

This Delaware Teacher's Desk Reference basically lists the curriculum components of the DSTP by subject and grade. Because of the emphasis on passing the state testing, the DSTP components are becoming the de facto state curriculum. This is a good spot to pull out academic goals for an IEP. The Teacher's Desk Reference is a link off the Delaware State DOE Curriculum page.

www.rdc.udel.edu/achievementgap/awarenesstoactionrevisited.htm

University of Delaware study tracking the achievement gap in Delaware schools by District. March 2005.

www.narhs.org/nars

This is a private school in Maine that can offer a high school diploma to students based on high school transcripts, not state testing. Private schools and home schooled kids don’t ever need to take the DSPT and they can get diplomas. This isn't for everyone but it is another option to consider. See related page at the Wrights Law web site: www.wrightslaw.com/info/advo.diploma.nars.htm