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For Administrators
Stages Administrators Handout (PDF 404K)
Alternate Assessment Solutions that Save Time & Money and Provide Accountability. This article describes the Stages approach to effective and efficient assessment of learners with special needs, and how Stages can provide the data required for accountability.

For Practitioners
Closing The Gap 2007: Set the stage for success! (PDF 528K)
By Madalaine Pugliese
This article, published in the Feb/Mar 2007 issue of Closing The Gap, describes how 8 Stages users in various settings--private practice, local school, district collaborative, residential school, regional center, and statewide agency--implement the Stages framework for assistive technology assessment, alternate assessment, and access to curriculum. Read how Stages gives professionals "Wow" moments, when they discover how much more their students knew and understood than anyone thought.

Stages and Alternate Assessment Portfolios (PDF 12K)
How Stages software generates alternate assessment portfolio evidence.

Alternate Assessment: What does your state require? (PDF 267K)
In many states, teachers submit a portfolio for each learner that requires an alternate assessment. Stages Report Wizard reports and activity summaries can often be used as is in these portfolios. But what if your state requires something different? This article gives an example of how teachers can format Stages data to satisfy a state's requirements.

Closing the Gap 2002: Using Stages to Create Meaningful and Effective Alternate Assessment Portfolios (PDF 460K)
By Madalaine Pugliese. Application of Stages to comply with recent alternate assessment mandates, overview of the assessment process (ConnSENSE Bulletin Aug 2002) Versions of this article were also published in Closing the Gap and Special Education Technology Practice or HTML

Stages: Valuable Tools for Professionals Working to Support Students with Special Needs (PDF 48K)
This white paper describes the ways that the Stages framework augments the role of every member of the learner's instructional team, from service delivery professionals to administrators.

Stages: An Alternative Curriculum and Assessment Philosophy (PDF 320K)
A practical overview of the Stages assessment process, components, and individual Stages, including relevant learning issues and sample IEP objectives. (Special Education Technology Practice, Sep/Oct 2001)

For Everyone
Stages Testimonials: What Users Are Saying About Stages (PDF 48K)
Testimonials and Success Stories from Stages Users

Stages: Support for Learners with Special Needs (PDF 44K)
This white paper shows how Stages addresses the needs of different learner populations

Publishers of Stages Software (PDF 12K)
A list of publishers of Stages Curriculum Software titles

A Summary of Stages Research (PDF 24K)
A list of research supporting each Stage

Stages: New Age Education - Best practices in online learning, by Jim Beasley. An update on the success of Stages and ATI's plans for future development of Stages, including an assessment certification program. (Enabled Online Jan 2002) HTML

Stages Author, for Assistive Technology, Inc., Honored for Leading the Information Technology Revolution (PDF 20K)
Madalaine Pugliese is named Computerworld Honors Program Laureate (ATI Press Release Apr 2001) or HTML

Stages: Software Solutions for Special Needs (Review) (PDF 20K)
Book & Software Review by Gilson Capilouto in Associate Editor Column (Journal of Special Education Technology, Volume 15, Number 4, Fall 2000) or HTML

Closing the Gap 2000: Stages, a Framework for Alternative Assessment (PDF 208K)
Expanded descriptions of each Stage and their relevance to alternate assessment (Closing the Gap Feb/Mar 2000)

ATI Announces the Release of Stages (ATI Press Release Jan 2000) HTML

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