Alternate Assessment Options

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Alternate Assessment Options

• School Year
• 2004 - 2005

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Alternate Assessment Options

• Level I Revised
• Grades 2 12
• Based on
• Functional standards
• New articulated kindergarten standards

• Level II New!
• Grades 6 12
• Based on
• Articulated standards grades 1 through 3

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AIMS-A Level I RevisionsArizonas Instrument to
Measure Standards - Alternate

• Form 1 Alternate Assessment Eligibility Criteria
  New!
• Form 2 Standards Status Report New!
• New articulated kindergarten standards
• Form 3 Performance Evaluation
• bolded objectives from Form 2
• Form 4 Parent Interview
• Form 5 (A-D) Activity-Based Performance
  Assessments
• Data Sheets Begin using at the beginning of the
  school year
• Score Sheets Point-in-time assessment just
  prior to submission

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ASAT Level I RevisionsAlternate State
Achievement Test

• Form 1 Alternate Assessment Eligibility Criteria
  New!
• Form 2 Standards Status Report New!
• New articulated kindergarten standards

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AIMS-A Level II New!Arizonas Instrument to
Measure Standards - Alternate

• Form 1 Alternate Assessment Eligibility Criteria
• Form 3A3D Activity-Based Performance Assessments
• Data Sheets
• Begin using when forms are available
• Score Sheets
• Point-in-time assessment just prior to submission

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AIMS-A Level II Forms 3A3DArizonas
Instrument to Measure Standards - Alternate

• Form 3A School/Vocational Domain
• Job/Volunteer Activity
• Form 3B Recreation/Leisure Domain
• Recreation/Leisure Activity
• Form 3C Community Domain
• Transportation Activity
• Form 3D Domestic Living Domain
• Entertaining Friends Activity

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ASAT Level II New!Alternate State Achievement
Test

• Form 1 Alternate Assessment Eligibility Criteria
• Form 2 Standards Status Report
• Articulated standards grades 1 through 3

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Alternate Assessment Eligibility
CriteriaSignificant Cognitive Disability
Definition

• IEP team must determine whether student meets
  significant cognitive disability (SCD) definition
  as the first step of the Form 1 eligibility
  criteria.

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Alternate Assessment Eligibility Criteria New!

• Articulated kindergarten standards incorporated
  into the Level I eligibility criteria
• Level II criteria added to Form 1
• Review the eligibility decision of most recent
  IEP before starting assessment process
• Complete any necessary IEP addendums

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Alternate Assessment Eligibility Criteria Most
Recent Test Results

• Determine the most recent alternate assessment
  results.
• Standards not exceeded
• Student in grades 2 through 12
• complete the Consideration for Level I
  Eligibility
• Standards exceeded
• Student in grades 6 through 12
• complete the Consideration for Level II
  Eligibility

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Alternate Assessment Eligibility Criteria No Test
Results

• If no previous alternate assessment results,
• Student in grades 2 through 5
• complete the Consideration for Level I
  Eligibility
• Student in grades 6 through 12
• complete the Consideration for Level I
  Eligibility
• or
• complete the Consideration for Level II
  Eligibility

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Data Entry System

• New! Web-based system (formerly known as AADSI)
  will incorporate the alternate assessment
  changes.
• Anticipated date for data entry is January 5,
  2005.
• Important! Start using the new hard copy forms to
  begin the assessment process for the 2004-2005
  school year
• Level I Begin in September
• Level II Begin as soon as forms are available
• Anticipated by the end of October

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Data Entry System

• So, please . . .
• Throw away the old forms!
• If your teachers use the old forms, when they
  start data entry, items WILL NOT MATCH!

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Revised Forms

• Revised forms available within the next two weeks
  at
• www.ade.az.gov/standards

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HEADS UP!Teacher Access to Web Application

• All teachers who have students eligible for
  alternate assessment will need to obtain a
  password to access the Web-based application.
• How to obtain passwords will be disseminated
  through the following methods
• Directors Institute Alternate Assessment
  presentation
• Statewide Alternate Assessment training
  opportunities
• Notification through AADSI and ADE/ESS listserv
• Posted on AADSI and ADE Alternate Assessment Web
  sites

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Training Opportunities

• 15 trainings scheduled throughout the state
• October 2004 through January 2005
• Due to the many changes, it is important for each
  PEA to send only 2 participants
• 1 administrator
• 1 teacher who has previously administered the
  alternate assessment
• Training participants will train other teachers
  in the PEA on the new requirements

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Questions?