Transcript Dr. Tom Dauphinee Deputy Director of Assessment and

Test Design and Transition to Common Core Standards
• Past and present performance in multiple setting
point to a significant cognitive disability
• Needs intensive, pervasive, or extensive level of
support in multiple settings
• Current cognitive and adaptive skills require direct
instruction to acquire, maintain and generalize across
multiple settings
NMAPA replaced on-demand structured rating scale :
• On-demand performance assessment
• Measures on-grade-level academic skills
• Based on alternate achievement standards
•Three content areas – Language Arts (separate ELA
and writing scores), Mathematics, and Science
• Students respond through any communicative
modality
• Grade spans 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, and high school 10-12
• 12 performance tasks per content area
• Each task has an average 5 items
• Linking tasks to support a vertical scale
• Tasks arranged in order of complexity
• Starting task determined by teacher’s questionnaire
• Starting and stopping rules maximize number of items at
appropriate complexity
Grade
3-4
3-4/5-6
5-6
5-6/7-8
7-8
7-8/1012
10-12
Math
Unique
Linking
Unique
Linking
Unique
Linking
Unique
3-4
9
Total
12
3
5-6
6
12
3
7-8
6
12
3
10-12
9
Grade
3-4
3-4/5-6
5-6
5-6/7-8
7-8
7-8/1012
10-12
Science
Unique
Linking
Unique
Linking
Unique
Linking
Unique
3-4
9
12
Total
12
3
5-6
6
12
3
7-8
6
12
3
10-12
9
12