In recent months, Education Week has published several articles that mention or highlight the Dynamic Learning Maps ™ (DLM ®) Alternate Assessment project, including a guest blog by Project Director Neal Kingston and a pair of stories on
alternate assessment choices, implementation, and field tests.
Not exact matches
Set for large - scale use during the 2014 — 2015 school year, the DLM
alternate assessment system will let students with significant cognitive disabilities show what they know in ways that traditional multiple -
choice tests can not and is designed to more validly measure what students with significant cognitive disabilities know and can do.
USDE further elaborated that at that time, the only
choice for special education students was to either take a grade - level
assessment or an
alternate assessment based on
alternate academic achievement standards and that neither of these options provided an accurate
assessment of what these students know and can do.