Aurora Public SchoolsExceptional Student Services

Presented by:Barb RiceKim Terry

CoAlt Science and Social StudiesAdministration Training

March-April, 2014

2014 Test Window

April 14 – May 2Science: Grades 5 & 8Social Studies: Grades 4 & 7

Science and Social Studies Grade 12 will be in the Fall of 2014

• Eligibility is determined by the IEP team

– 1st Determine Academic Standard

– 2nd Determine Assessment

Alternate Standards and Assessment Eligibility Criteria Worksheet

General Standards → TCAP

Alternate Standards → CoAlt

Linda Lamirande 303-866-6863

http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdesped/assessmentdisability

What is CoAlt?

• Colorado’s standards based alternate achievement assessment based on the Colorado Extended Evidence Outcomes (EEOs).

• Measures student progress toward the EEOs• An assessment for students’ with significant cognitive

disabilities.• A moment in time… a snapshot of a student’s

content knowledge.

Standardized AssessmentsWhat Does it Mean?

• All students will have the same test content, resources, directions, testing conditions, and rating procedures.

• One score obtained by one student in a part of Colorado will mean the same as the same score obtained by another student in another part of Colorado

It is all about a valid and reliable assessment!

Maintaining Security

Test security must be maintained:• Item Protocols • Student Materials• Adapted student materials• Rating Forms

Item Protocols must not be reproduced Documented chain of custody must be maintained Student responses must not be recorded anywhere other

than in the Item Protocol and the Rating Form. No cell phones, digital cameras or video cameras in the

testing room during testing.

Chain of CustodyA documented Chain of Custody must be maintained

for all test materials.This includes:

– Delivery of materials to school buildings– Test Examiners must account for and return test materials and adaptations to

the SAC for storage in a secure and locked location on a daily basis.– Security while in CoALT Examiners Possession.– All test materials must be returned to CTB.– Missing testing materials and other irregularities must be reported to SAC/DAC

– Test materials must not be stored in classrooms.

The following items must be secured:• Item Protocols • Student Materials• Accommodated student materials• Score recording form

Any electronic student materials or student answers must be securely removed from

technology used.

Security

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• Read through the items and consider the specific needs of the student

• Review the EEOs being assessed• Identify and secure any accommodations the student

may need• Cut apart task manipulatives, and paperclip to

corresponding pages

Test Examiner Before Testing

• Ensure every student has their own book and write their name on the front of the book

• Ensure every student has their own set of task manipulatives, score recording form, and secure return envelope

• Write the student’s name with a black marker on the secure return envelope

Test Examiner or SAC Before Testing

It is a breach of professional ethics for school personnel to provide verbal or nonverbal clues or answers, teach items on the test, coach, hint or in any way influence a student’s performance during

the test administration.

Ethics

A breach of ethics may result in invalidation of test results and school, district or CDE disciplinary action.

Pearson will be hiring score monitors to assist in monitoring testing.

– They will be provided a list of students they are responsible to monitor – They will contact the district to determine the date the student will be testing– They will be trained by CDE and Pearson as to their role– They will be observing the testing

•Note procedures followed•Score behind testing

Score Monitors

Pearson will be hiring score monitors to assist in monitoring testing.

– They will be provided a list of students they are responsible to monitor – They will contact the district to determine the date the student will be testing– They will be trained by CDE and Pearson as to their role– They will be observing the testing

•Note procedures followed•Score behind testing

Score Monitors

We appreciate you working with these monitors so they may observe in the least disruptive (for the student) way possible.

You need to make determinations based on what is best for your students and their instructional time.

• Examiner’s Manual• One shrink wrapped packet per student– CoAlt test book– Secure return envelope– Task manipulatives (for Supported Performance Tasks)

(SPT items)• Secure return form

– Score recording form– Certification form

Materials

What is different: The student is presented with three answer

options rather than four.

The student will work with the test item until they provide the correct answer or the maximum number of attempts is reached.

The scoring rubric incorporates the level of independence and answer, which will no longer be collected as two separate score points.

CoAlt: Science and Social Studies

What is different: CoAlt Test Examiners may not reword prompts, but must

follow the script exactly as written.

A cue for the student to engage is included as the additional prompt, and will no longer need to be created by the CoAlt Test Examiner.

CoAlt Test Examiners may mark student scores on the score recording form or in the test book, but final student scores must be entered online via PearsonAccess.

CoAlt: Science and Social Studies

What is Different: Test booklet Layout

In grades 4, 5 & 7 there is one form

In grade 8 there are two forms (students only take 014 or 024)

Item types Selected Response

Supported Performance Tasks

Score Monitors

CoAlt: Science and Social Studies

With your partner note similarities and difference between the alternate assessments to be given this year.

CoAlt: Reading, Writing and Mathematics

CoAlt: Science and Social Studies

Accommodations used during instruction should be the accommodations used during assessment as long as they do not invalidate what is being measured.

Remember...

Provide Access and Maintain Construct

• What does the student need to access the assessment?

• What is being measured?

Accommodations

• The student facing pages of test items may need to be adapted.– Size

–Color– Contrast levels– Dimension– Assistive technology– Tactile

Accommodations

• The student facing pages of test items may need to be adapted.– Size

– Color

–Contrast levels– Dimension– Assistive technology– Tactile

Accommodations

• The student facing pages of test items may need to be adapted.– Size– Color– Contrast levels

–Dimension– Assistive technology– Tactile

Accommodations

• The student facing pages of test items may need to be adapted.– Size– Color– Contrast levels– Dimension

–Assistive technology– Tactile

Accommodations

• The student facing pages of test items may need to be adapted.– Size– Color– Contrast levels– Dimension– Assistive technology

–Tactile

Accommodations

Accommodations

• The picture symbols/ icons provided in the CoAlt assessment should be used, except in the following circumstances:– The student needs to use objects rather than pictures– The student needs pictures of real objects rather than drawings– The student has a personal lexicon with a specific representation for the

concept or words in the student answer choices – in this case, all answer choices must be from the student’s personal lexicon

Administration

Selected Response

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Selected ResponseLevel 4

Selected ResponseLevel 4

Selected ResponseLevel 4

Selected ResponseLevel 4

Selected ResponseLevel 4

Selected ResponseLevel 4

Selected ResponseLevel 4

Selected ResponseLevel 3

Selected ResponseLevel 3

Alternate Prompt

Selected ResponseLevel 3

Selected ResponseLevel 3

Selected ResponseLevel 2

Selected ResponseLevel 2

Selected ResponseLevel 2

Selected ResponseLevel 2

Selected ResponseLevel 2

Selected ResponseLevel 2

Selected ResponseLevel 1

Selected ResponseLevel 1 or No Response

Notice no repeating of the prompt.

Partner Practice

• At your table, find an elbow partner to practice one or two of the sample items in your packet.

• Be sure that you each have an opportunity to be the teacher and the student.

Administration

Supported Performance Task(SPT)

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Supported Performance Tasks2, 1 or NR

Positive Consequences Negative Consequences

Supported Performance Tasks2, 1, or NR

Supported Performance Tasks2, 1, or NR

Positive Consequences Negative Consequences

Supported Performance Tasks

Supported Performance Tasks2, 1, or NR

Positive Consequences Negative Consequences

Supported Performance Tasks

Supported Performance Tasks2, 1, or NR

Positive Consequences Negative Consequences

Supported Performance Tasks

Contacting Customer Service

• CMAS: Science and Social Studies– 1-888-687-4759

• Reasons for districts to contact Pearson:– Procedural questions—will be sent to

Pearson Program Team and/or CDE– Ordering– PearsonAccess questions

Colorado PearsonAccess Landing Page

PearsonAccess – Logging In• Enter your User ID and Password then click Sign In

• If you have problems logging in, use the links below to Unlock User, Reset your password, if you need help signing in or if you have forgotten your User ID.

PearsonAccess – HomeThe Home tab in PearsonAccess displays links to the all the functions available to your user account.

Create a New Individual User Account• Go to Administrative Management > View

User Accounts.• Click New User to go to the New User

Account screen.

School Assessment Coordinator--Creating PearsonAccess User Accounts

Create a New Individual User Account• Enter the required fields.• Select a user role (or roles) for the new user.• Select an organization (or organizations) for the new

user. • Click Save. After you click Save, a notification is

sent automatically to that user’s email address. • The email contains a link to the login screen where

the new user can choose a password and enter the site.

Creating PearsonAccess User Accounts

CoAlt Assigning Students to Teachers

School Assessment Coordinator

Manage Teacher Assignments Online Score Entry

Assigning a Teacher to a Assigned Student

• Select the Assigned Students option button. • Select a student(s) and then click Assign Teacher. • Select a teacher from the drop-down and click Save.

Removing a Teacher from an Assigned Student

• Select the Assigned Students option button.• Select a student(s) and then click Remove Teacher.• Click Yes-Continue with Removal.

Assigning a Subject to an Assigned Student

• Select the Assigned Students option button. • Select a student(s) and then click Assign Subject. • Select the subject and click Assign Subjects.

Removing a Subject from an Assigned Student

• Select the Assigned Students option button. • Select a student(s) and then click Remove Subject.• Click Yes-Continue with Removal.

CoAlt Score EntryCoAlt test examiners