The Arc of WV Requests participation in parent focus group.

Posted: October 1, 2012

From a September 28, 2012 e-mail from the Arc:

Request for Participation in Parent Focus Groups on Special Education and Alternate Assessments

The Arc is working with The Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas and we need your help!

The Arc is conducting focus groups with parents and guardians of children who take their state’s alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) on behalf of the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation (CETE). In West Virginia, this assessment is called the Alternate Performance Task Assessment, or APTA. If your child participates in this assessment, we want you to share your views with us!

CETE received funding from the US Department of Education to create an alternate assessment system for students with significant cognitive disabilities, and researchers there are interested in learning more from parents about what kinds of information they get about the alternate assessment process, how it affects them and their children, and how it can be improved.

To participate, parents will come to:
The Blennerhassett Hotel
320 Market Street
Parkersburg, WV 26101

for a focus group about an hour and a half in length at 6:00 pm on October 15th. All conversations will need to be audiotaped for our review, but all results and information obtained from your time with us will be strictly confidential. Parking will be provided and each participant will receive a small gift card in appreciation for his or her time.

If interested, please email or call us!

Please contact:
Casey Nitsch
The Arc of the United States
1825 K. Street NW, Ste. 1200
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 600–3486
nitsch@thearc.org

Sincerely,

Christina Smith
Executive Director
The Arc of West Virginia / The Arc of the Mid Ohio Valley