Aurora Public Schools Exceptional Student Services Presented by: Barb Rice Kim Terry

1. CoAlt Science and Social Studies Administration Training March-April, 2014 Aurora Public Schools Exceptional Student Services Presented by: Barb Rice Kim Terry

2. 2014 Test Window April 14 – May 2 Science: Grades 5 & 8 Social Studies: Grades 4 & 7 Science and Social Studies Grade 12 will be in the Fall of 2014

3. Alternate Standards and Assessment Eligibility Criteria Worksheet • Eligibility is determined by the IEP team • 1stDetermine Academic Standard • 2nd Determine Assessment Linda Lamirande 303-866-6863 General Standards → TCAP Alternate Standards → CoAlt http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdesped/assessmentdisability

4. What is CoAlt? • Colorado’s standards based alternate achievement assessment based on the Colorado Extended Evidence Outcomes (EEOs). • Measures student progress toward the EEOs • An assessment for students’ with significant cognitive disabilities. • A moment in time… a snapshot of a student’s content knowledge.

5. Standardized Assessments What Does it Mean? • All students will have the same test content, resources, directions, testing conditions, and rating procedures. • One score obtained by one student in a part of Colorado will mean the same as the same score obtained by another student in another part of Colorado It is all about a valid and reliable assessment!

6. Maintaining Security Test security must be maintained: • Item Protocols • Student Materials • Adapted student materials • Rating Forms • Item Protocols must not be reproduced • Documented chain of custody must be maintained • Student responses must not be recorded anywhere other than in the Item Protocol and the Rating Form. • No cell phones, digital cameras or video cameras in the testing room during testing.

7. Chain of Custody A documented Chain of Custody must be maintained for all test materials. This includes: • Delivery of materials to school buildings • Test Examiners must account for and return test materials and adaptations to the SAC for storage in a secure and locked location on a daily basis. • Security while in CoALT Examiners Possession. • All test materials must be returned to CTB. • Missing testing materials and other irregularities must be reported to SAC/DAC • Test materials must not be stored in classrooms.

8. Security The following items must be secured: • Item Protocols • Student Materials • Accommodated student materials • Score recording form Any electronic student materials or student answers must be securely removed from technology used. 8

10. Test Examiner Before Testing • Read through the items and consider the specific needs of the student • Review the EEOs being assessed • Identify and secure any accommodations the student may need • Cut apart task manipulatives, and paperclip to corresponding pages

11. Test Examiner or SAC Before Testing • Ensure every student has their own book and write their name on the front of the book • Ensure every student has their own set of task manipulatives, score recording form, and secure return envelope • Write the student’s name with a black marker on the secure return envelope

14. Ethics It is a breach of professional ethics for school personnel to provide verbal or nonverbal clues or answers, teach items on the test, coach, hint or in any way influence a student’s performance during the test administration. A breach of ethics may result in invalidation of test results and school, district or CDE disciplinary action.

15. Score Monitors Pearson will be hiring score monitors to assist in monitoring testing. • They will be provided a list of students they are responsible to monitor • They will contact the district to determine the date the student will be testing • They will be trained by CDE and Pearson as to their role • They will be observing the testing • Note procedures followed • Score behind testing

16. Score Monitors Pearson will be hiring score monitors to assist in monitoring testing. • They will be provided a list of students they are responsible to monitor • They will contact the district to determine the date the student will be testing • They will be trained by CDE and Pearson as to their role • They will be observing the testing • Note procedures followed • Score behind testing We appreciate you working with these monitors so they may observe in the least disruptive (for the student) way possible. You need to make determinations based on what is best for your students and their instructional time.

17. Materials • Examiner’s Manual • One shrink wrapped packet per student • CoAlt test book • Secure return envelope • Task manipulatives (for Supported Performance Tasks) (SPT items) • Secure return form • Score recording form • Certification form

18. CoAlt: Science and Social Studies • What is different: • The student is presented with three answer options rather than four. • The student will work with the test item until they provide the correct answer or the maximum number of attempts is reached. • The scoring rubric incorporates the level of independence and answer, which will no longer be collected as two separate score points.

19. CoAlt: Science and Social Studies • What is different: • CoAlt Test Examiners may not reword prompts, but must follow the script exactly as written. • A cue for the student to engage is included as the additional prompt, and will no longer need to be created by the CoAlt Test Examiner. • CoAlt Test Examiners may mark student scores on the score recording form or in the test book, but final student scores must be entered online via PearsonAccess.

20. CoAlt: Science and Social Studies • What is Different: • Test booklet Layout • In grades 4, 5 & 7 there is one form • In grade 8 there are two forms (students only take 014 or 024) • Item types • Selected Response • Supported Performance Tasks • Score Monitors

21. With your partner note similarities and difference between the alternate assessments to be given this year.

22. Remember... Accommodations used during instruction should be the accommodations used during assessment as long as they do not invalidate what is being measured.

23. Accommodations Provide Access and Maintain Construct • What does the student need to access the assessment? • What is being measured?

25. Accommodations • The student facing pages of test items may need to be adapted. • Size • Color • Contrast levels • Dimension • Assistive technology • Tactile

26. Accommodations • The student facing pages of test items may need to be adapted. • Size • Color • Contrast levels • Dimension • Assistive technology • Tactile

27. Accommodations • The student facing pages of test items may need to be adapted. • Size • Color • Contrast levels • Dimension • Assistive technology • Tactile

28. Accommodations • The student facing pages of test items may need to be adapted. • Size • Color • Contrast levels • Dimension • Assistive technology • Tactile

29. Accommodations • The student facing pages of test items may need to be adapted. • Size • Color • Contrast levels • Dimension • Assistive technology • Tactile

30. Accommodations • The picture symbols/ icons provided in the CoAlt assessment should be used, except in the following circumstances: • The student needs to use objects rather than pictures • The student needs pictures of real objects rather than drawings • The student has a personal lexicon with a specific representation for the concept or words in the student answer choices – in this case, all answer choices must be from the student’s personal lexicon

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50. Selected ResponseLevel 1 or No Response Notice no repeating of the prompt.