Educational Service Guidelines for the Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Standard 30: Program Accountability

Standard 30: Program Accountability

The school leadership, program administrators, and staff have knowledge and skills to ensure that students who are D/HH receive appropriate instruction and designated services. Each student’s progress toward accomplishing the expected state and schoolwide learning results is regularly assessed. The aggregate student’s progress is reported to the school community, including families, the deaf/hard-of-hearing community, and related agencies and organizations. Ohio Operating Standards for Students with Disabilities 3301-51-09 (h)(1)

An audiologist administering the Functional Listening Evaluation to a student wearing a cochlear implant.

The school and/or program leadership is accountable for student learning and provides oversight to ensure staff is knowledgeable in current practices and works together to provide appropriate services, student assessment, progress monitoring, and program evaluation. The program has established an assessment process that reports the extent to which every child is meeting content and performance standards and expected child/youth development and learning results as defined in the statewide and district-wide assessments. The process includes the development of an assessment plan that provides valid and reliable information for (1) student-based indicators, including the achievement of every child related to content and performance standards, (2) school-based (program based for early intervention) indicators that include what the program plans to do to increase the level of each student's achievement over time, and (3) family input. The assessment plan includes a description of the following:

  • The assessment formats and the types of information used to determine whether every student is meeting the content standards in each subject area
  • The method employed to ensure the validity, reliability, and consistency of the evaluations of child development and achievement
  • The method employed to combine various types of information about child development and achievement
  • The method employed to ensure that all students are assessed appropriately on content standards