Sentences with phrase «with alternate assessment»

Ms. LeFevre is also active in promoting «next generation» student - parent conferencing with alternate assessment / demonstration to engage and include all families in a student's learning journey.

She has a great understanding of test development and she really sees her work as helping us as states move forward with our alternate assessments.»

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Our Business Continuity Plan addresses all areas affected by a business disruption of any type, including data backup and recovery; financial and operational assessments; alternative communications with clients, employees and regulators; alternate physical location of employees; critical supplier, contractor and bank impact; and regulatory reporting.

Our Business Continuity Plan Addresses — data backup and recovery; all mission critical systems; financial and operational assessments; alternative communications with customers, employees, and regulators; alternate physical location of employees; critical supplier, contractor, bank and counter-party impact and regulatory reporting if we are unable to continue our business.

Our business continuity plan addresses: data back up and recovery; all mission critical systems; financial and operational assessments; alternative communications with customers, employees, and regulators; alternate physical location of employees; critical supplier, contractor, bank and counter-party impact; regulatory reporting; and assuring our customers prompt access to their funds and securities if we are unable to continue our business.

The Firm's business continuity plan addresses the following elements: all mission critical systems; financial and operational assessments; alternative communications with clients, employees, and regulators; alternate physical location of employees; critical supplier, contractor, bank and counter-party impact; regulatory reporting; and assuring that clients have prompt access to their funds and securities if the Firm is unable to continue a securities business.

In particular, our Plan addresses: data back - up and recovery; all mission critical systems; financial and operational assessments; alternative communications with customers, employees, and regulators; alternate physical location of employees; critical supplier, contractor, bank and counter-party impact; regulatory reporting; and assuring our customers prompt access to their funds and securities if we are unable to continue our business.

But in Whitehead's scheme there is an assessment of how each alternate path, each type of physical existent, comes with a different trade - off.

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.

Federal law requires states to provide «alternate assessments» for students with disabilities who can not take regular state tests, even with accommodations.

Two federally - funded consortia, Dynamic Learning Maps and the National Center and State Collaborative, have been tasked with creating alternate assessments for this small population of students with widely diverse needs.

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.

NCLB requires states to develop systems for assessing the achievement of all students against the state's standards, with only limited options for alternate assessments for students with significant disabilities.

Micromanages the way that state accountability systems include students with disabilities, setting inflexible rules about how many students can take alternate assessments.

There are a range of critical issues, such as: the implementation of the reauthorized ESEA (now called The Every Student Succeeds Act) which includes new flexibility for states in designing state standards and accountability systems as well as a hard cap on the number of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities taking alternate assessments on alternate standards; regulations on disproportionate identification of minority students to special education; and, the goal to transition more disadvantaged students into college and careers that will have a significant impact on some of the most vulnerable children.

The Florida Standards Alternate Assessment (FSAA) is designed for students whose participation in the general statewide assessment program (Florida Standards Assessments, Statewide Science Assessment, Next Generation Sunshine State Standards End - of - Course Assessments) is not appropriate, even with accommodations.

[T] here are only two possible state assessments for students with disabilities — the general assessment and the alternate assessment aligned with the challenging state academic standards.

Since below grade level assessments are not permitted for students who take an alternate assessment, there is no valid rationale for offering below grade level assessments to students with disabilities who take the general assessment.

The State Education Department is seeking a federal waiver allowing students with severe disabilities not eligible for alternate assessments to be tested at lower grade levels.

The Dynamic Learning Maps ® (DLM ®) Alternate Assessment System creates highly accessible assessments for students with significant cognitive disabilities.

Students with disabilities and English learners may take Standards of Learning tests with or without accommodations or they may be assessed through alternate or alternative assessments.

She has done much work on a national level on alternate assessments, including doing research for the National Alternate Assessment Center, assisting multiple state departments of education with improving their assessment systems, and serving as chairperson of the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on Inclusion and Accommodation in Educational Asalternate assessments, including doing research for the National Alternate Assessment Center, assisting multiple state departments of education with improving their assessment systems, and serving as chairperson of the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on Inclusion and Accommodation in Educational AsAlternate Assessment Center, assisting multiple state departments of education with improving their assessment systems, and serving as chairperson of the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on Inclusion and Accommodation in Educational Assessment.

Leila Williams, associate superintendent with the Arizona Department of Education, has worked closely with Karvonen, lead researcher on a longitudinal study of widely different alternate assessments in three states, including Arizona.

But unlike NCLB, the legislation requires states to provide reasonable adaptations and accommodations for assessing students with disabilities, including alternate assessments for the most significantly cognitively disabled.

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.

Karvonen will lead the DLM project's test development and measurement team during the next phase of development of the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment System, a computer - based assessment for the 1 % of the K - 12 public school student population with significant cognitive disabilities for whom, even with accommodations, general state assessments are not appropriate.

TCAP Alternate (TCAP - Alt) are assessments in science and social studies designed for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities in grades 3 — 8 and grade 10 and measure student mastery of the Tennessee Academic Standards.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA) requires states to develop and implement alternate assessments for students with significant cognitive disabilities who can not participate in state and districtwide assessments, even with accommodations.

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.

To ensure the language proficiency of ELLs with disabilities are validly and reliably assessed, the student's IEP Team must determine whether an ELL with a disability needs to received appropriate accommodation on the ACCESS for ELLs 2.0, or needs to take the alternate assessment.

The DLM Consortium is developing the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment, a computer - based assessment for the 1 % of the K - 12 public school student population with significant cognitive disabilities for whom, even with accommodations, general state assessments are not appropriate.

The $ 22 million grant — the largest in KU history — was awarded to fund development and evaluation of a new generation of alternate assessments for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities — the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment Systalternate assessments for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities — the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment SystAlternate Assessment System (DLM).

Alternate ACCESS for ELLs is secure large — scale English language proficiency (ELP) assessment administered to students in grades 1 — 12 identified as English learners (ELLs) with the most significant cognitive disabilities who are unable to meaningful participate in ACCESS for ELLs 2.0.

Under ESSA, there are only two possible state assessments for students with disabilities — the general assessment and the alternate assessment aligned with the challenging state academic standards.

The alternate assessments are expected to align with the assessment systems being developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), recent awardees of the Race to the Top Assessment program grant.

Alaska becomes the 16th state to join the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment Consortium, a multi-state initiative developing a computer - based assessment designed to more validly measure what students with significant cognitive disabilities know and can do.

CETE staff members Alan Sheinker, Carrie Mark, and Sookyung Shin will present the session «Dynamic Learning Maps ™ Alternate Assessment System (DLM - AAS): A new generation assessment for students with significant cognitive disabilities.»

Hyun - jeong Cho will present «Understanding alternate assessment misassignment and how to prevent it,» which examines when students are not correctly identified for alternative assessments and provides solutions to ensure academically challenging education for students with disabilities.

«That means no longer allowing the achievement of students with disabilities to be measured by these alternate assessments aligned to modified achievement standards.

«The expectation should be that students presently taking the... [alternate exams] will participate in the general assessment, with appropriate accommodations as needed,» the group wrote in July.

And just as with the CAASPP exams, students with exceptional needs who take the approved exam must be provided with appropriate accommodations, or be administered the California Alternate Assessments, and English learners must be provided appropriate accommodations, including access to testing instruction in their primary language, bilingual glossaries and extended testing time.

He added that states would still be able to count 1 percent of kids, those with the most severe disabilities, as proficient on alternate assessments even under the new regulations (the 1 percent rule is a different regulation that the administration isn't proposing to tweak).

To adopt the learning gains calculation model for the Florida Standards Alternate Assessments in English Language Arts and Mathematics, as well as to bring the rule into compliance with 2017 statutory changes and an update to the referenced federal regulation for the four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate.

If deemed appropriate by the IEP Team, English Learners may be assessed with the «VCCALPS» as an alternate assessment to the CELDT to determine English proficiency levels.

Describes accommodations, alternate assessments, appeals, procedures, and other safeguards that should be implemented for statewide assessment systems to comply with the law and guarantee educationally sound opportunities to students with learning disabilities.