Sentences with phrase «use alternate assessments»

Students who struggle can continue to retest and use alternate assessments until they show proficiency, and they are not penalized for needing extended time.

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This test consists of 20 items (with an associated answer key for the teacher) that assess the vocabulary, grammar, and cultural concepts listed below: Vocabulary Themes: History; Countries and cities; Communities Grammar Themes: Prepositions: Preterite tense in regular - ar, - er, and - ir verbs; Direct object pronouns Culture Themes: The Mayas and The Incas; Independence Age; Latin American and US Writing in Spanish: Punctuation and accents An alternate version of the test is also provided to the teacher, in case a student needs to re-take the assessment or for use in large classrooms.

This test consists of 20 items (with an associated answer key for the teacher) that assess the vocabulary, grammar, and cultural concepts listed below: • Country / Region: South America: Colombia, a Magic Land • Vocabulary Themes: physical characteristics and parts of the body • Grammar Themes: adjectives: descriptives; agreement; gender and number • Writing in Spanish: el alfabeto • Culture Theme: Colombia and the Arts An alternate version of the test is also provided to the teacher, in case a student needs to re-take the assessment or for use in large classrooms.

This test consists of 20 items (with an associated answer key for the teacher) that assess the vocabulary, grammar, and cultural concepts listed below: - Country / Region: United States: La Florida - Vocabulary Themes: Modes of transportation; The beach; Weather - Grammar Themes: Prepositions: Overview; Contractions: a + el / al (to the), de + el / del (from the)- Culture Theme: History of Florida: San Agustín, Immigration from Latin America, cultural fusion, geography, ecology An alternate version of the test is also provided to the teacher, in case a student needs to re-take the assessment or for use in large classrooms.

This test consists of 20 items (with an associated answer key for the teacher) that assess the vocabulary, grammar, and cultural concepts listed below: • Country / Region: Spain: general description and main regions • Vocabulary Themes: my home and my neighborhood; numbers 11 to 100; cognates • Grammar Themes: subject pronouns and articles • Culture Theme: Spain and Spanish culture An alternate version of the test is also provided to the teacher, in case a student needs to re-take the assessment or for use in large classrooms.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

Limit alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards only to students with the most significant cognitive disabilities, up to 1 percent of all students; terminate assessments based on modified achievement standards; and prohibit the use of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) to measure academic achievement under ESEA.

Alternate assessment means a State alternate assessment recommended by the committee on special education, for use by students with disabilities as defined in section 100.1 (t)(2)(iv) of this Part in lieu of a required State asAlternate assessment means a State alternate assessment recommended by the committee on special education, for use by students with disabilities as defined in section 100.1 (t)(2)(iv) of this Part in lieu of a required State asalternate assessment recommended by the committee on special education, for use by students with disabilities as defined in section 100.1 (t)(2)(iv) of this Part in lieu of a required State assessment.

The passing scores for the substitute tests were the same ones used in 2010 when the state transitioned into a new alternate assessment process for students who had failed the High School Proficiency Assessment.

A large number are already using testing accommodations and a few are developing alternate assessments.

Examining the participation of students in national and state assessments, including the use of accommodations and alternate assessments.

West Virginia requires alternate route candidates to complete a minimum of 18 semester hours of coursework in the areas of student assessment, development and learning, curriculum, classroom management, the use of educational computers and other technology and special education and diversity.

Karin draws upon a decade of experience designing and conducting alignment studies for general education and alternate assessments to propose some new coding and analysis protocols for use with both large - scale assessment and locally - developed assessments.

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.