ABSTRACT
Melissa is a middle school teacher within a self-contained classroom for students with intellectual disabilities in a large school district in Southwest Florida. She is carrying out a project on teachers' perceptions of a newly implemented state alternate assessment for students who have severe intellectual disabilities. She has developed her inquiry questions based on what she wants to know, read what others have written about alternate assessment, explored some of the possible approaches to carry out her project, received informed consent, and has collected teacher data through surveys. Now, she is overwhelmed with the amount of information she has generated. There are piles of completed surveys strewn around her dining room floor. She is wondering how she is going to make sense of it all!
