Guiding Principles

IASEP should...

• Honor the belief that all children have value, can learn with appropriate accommodations, and can be expected to make measurable gains.
• Reflect high standards for attaining academic proficiencies relevant to independent learning and living in the school, work, and community.
• Promote a coordinated and comprehensive educational system.
• Be used to improve the content and quality of education.
• Clearly reflect an accurate picture of the student's attainment of proficiencies and be relevant to the student's education.
• Reflect shared responsibility for the accomplishments of all students within accountability systems.
• Provide meaningful assessment results that are easily communicated and used to inform instruction.
• Include continuous documentation of student performance from multiple sources, environments, and domains.
• Measure the progress of students whose educational needs are primarily academic, but may also include functional and life skills as extensions of the general course of study.