Specifications include, but are not limited to: A. Ensuring the provision of appropriate accommodations available to English learners and children with disabilities to improve the rates of inclusion in regular assessments of such children, including professional development activities to improve the implementation of such accommodations in instructional practice. B. Ensuring the continued validity and reliability of State assessments. Page 3 of 12 C. Developing or improving models to measure and assess student progress or student growth on State assessments under section 1111(b)(2) and other assessments not required under section 1111(b)(2). D. Allowing for collaboration with institutions of higher education, other research institutions, or other organizations to improve the quality, validity, and reliability of State academic assessments beyond the requirements for such assessments described in section 1111(b)(2). E. Measuring student academic achievement using multiple measures of student academic achievement from multiple sources. F. Evaluating student academic achievement
