Kansas Alternate Assessment

Kansas Alternate Assessment

All indicators will be open to each student this year because indicators have been renumbered. The restriction of not being able to use indicators on which a student obtained a 4 or 5 the previous year will go back into effect for school year.

Kansas Alternate Assessment Only Reading, Math, and Science will be assessed this year.  No indicators can be entered for writing, or history- government. All indicators MUST be entered by December 30, Students new to the district after December 30, 2009, will not be assessed on the Kansas Alternate Assessment

Kansas Alternate Assessment The CETE Evidence Label has been revised and MUST be used this year.

Kansas Alternate Assessment Science Extended Standards – When picking the five indicators for science, you must pick one indicator from each of the first 4 standards. The last indicator can be chosen from any of the seven standards.

Kansas Alternate Assessment Administrators MUST sign off to assure the following for each student being assessed:  NO functional activities are being used for this student’s Alternate Assessment (by order of the USDoE).  Indicators are aligned to the activities chosen for this student.  Only appropriate assessable activities are used for this student’s portfolio.  A student’s opinion is not an assessable activity. How does the student fail the activity? Sign off should be competed before testing begins, by December 1,2009 so teachers can make adjustments if necessary.

Kansas Alternate Assessment Examples Activities for the KAA need to be activities that focus on the academic content of the area being assessed. The activities need to be about Reading, Math, and Science The activities cannot be functional life skills, such as dressing, feeding, hand washing, toileting, etc. Here’s an example of using academic content: ER Follows a schedule The student reads his schedule (using pictures or words) to get to class on time. The academic concept can be applied to a school activity. EM.1.19 recognizes coins or currency The student counts coin combinations needed to buy a pop from the vending machine.

Kansas Alternate Assessment Administrators MUST also sign off to assure the following:  People serving as scorers do not enter any scores at CETE.  Scoring is done independently, scores are confidential, and are sent to the recorder individually.  Scores are only given to evidence provided. If there is no evidence in the portfolio, that piece of evidence will receive a “0”. This sign off needs to be completed so scores can be entered