Updates:

These appear in red throughout the LAA 1 PowerPoint and provide current information. This information will also be in the Assessment Guide, soon to be available, and in the Test Administration Manual, which is part of the LAA 1 assessment materials.

LAA 1 RedesignOctober 30, 31, November 1,

2007

Division of Standards, Assessments

And Accountability

Why a Redesign? Redesigned LAA 1 must pass

USDE peer review Peer review requires

•academic based assessments

•aligned/linked to content standards

•at grade level or grade spans Retired LAA 1 is 7 years old

Why Fast Track? LDE learned late in the Peer

Review process that LAA 1 had not been approved.

LDE was advised to:•Redesign LAA 1

•Implement by spring 2008

What Remains the Same? The participation criteria and form Determination made by IEP team Use of accommodations Assessment window (2/11–3/28) Test administrator is the student’s

teacher

What Is Changing? Redesigned LAA 1 measures extensions of

the standards, benchmarks, and GLEs• Referred to as Extended Standards

Assessments by 4 grade spans Three content areas to be assessed, currently Assessment design: printed items/tasks Assessment book per grade span Response documents (RDs) easier to mark Method of administration, individual Use of dual assessors for a sample of

students

Extended Standards Developed by testing contractor Data

Recognition Corporation Reviewed, revised, and approved by

Louisiana educators representing general and special education• 3 committees: English language arts,

math, and science LAA 1 items/tasks based on extended

standards

ELA, Math, Science

ELA, Math ELA, Math,

Science

ELA, Math ELA, Math Science

Grade Span Content Area 3 and 4 5 and 6 7 and 8 High school

• 9

• 10

• 11

Dual Assessors Student sample: 10 percent of the

LAA 1 population Random selection Noted with asterisk by student

name on school roster RD with words Scoring Study

Document printed upper right beside student name to be dually assessed

Dual Assessors Central office special education

personnel Support personnel

•Speech therapist

•Adapted PE teacher

•Occupational therapist

•Another special education teacher Not a paraprofessional

Update: Members of the Evaluation Team, including the psychologist, may also serve as dual assessors.

Assessment Books and Response Documents

These documents are formatted by grade span:• One marked: Grade Span 3–4

• One marked: Grade Span 5–6

• One marked: Grade Span 7–8

• One marked: Grade Span 9–11 Each TA will receive:

• One assessment booklet per grade span taught

• One response document per student

Update: These materials will be spiral bound and color coded.

And . . . One duplicate of student

assessment book(s) One supplement book(s) of tactile

images as needed One Test Administration Manual

(TAM)Update: Tactile images will not be used.

Total Materials for Any One Test Administrator (TA) Student assessment book(s) TA duplicate assessment book(s)

with script and task descriptions for students with vision impairments

Supplemental book with tactile images used as needed

Response Document(s) Test Administration Manual (TAM)

Update: Task descriptions will be on a separate sheet and available upon request.

Assessment Design Standardized: all students in the same

grade span respond to the same tasks Rubric for each task Approximately 25 tasks per content

area Therefore, approximately 75 tasks

total Flexibility: in the accommodations

Rubrics Per task Rubric scores are either:

•2 or 1 or 0

•1 or 0

Assessment Materials Student books are 11" x 12 1/2" and contain

large-print tasks. They are color coded and spiral bound with hard

covers so they can be placed on classroom stand if so used in class.

Students in the same grade span use the same book.

Students do not mark or write in the assessment book

TA books are standard size (8 1/2" x 11") and contain duplicate tasks plus scripts, rubrics, and written descriptions of the graphics to use as needed.

Materials Security LAA 1 materials should be treated the

same as general assessment materials, i.e., secure materials, not to be duplicated.

Must be returned the same day they are checked out. •Student books•Response Documents•TA books•Supplemental book with tactile images

Update: Assistive technology that in any way reproduces the assessment or graphics and task descriptions for VI-blind are considered secure.

Materials Security (continued) Response document: TA will complete

this task- by-task as student responds to each task. Therefore, the RD is confidential.

RD is designed to be left in the student assessment book as a place marker when checked in and out.

RD is removed from student book when assessment ends, and all RDs are returned in their own envelope at the end of assessment.

Accommodations Tactile images Assistive technology Other

Update: Assistive technology includes augmentative communication devices, manipulation in presentation of graphics, objects/manipulatives, symbol systems, and task descriptions for VI-blind. These are the most common assistive technology devices or product systems that may be used during LAA 1, as long as they are used routinely in the classroom.

Accommodations (continued) Tactile images

•This population does not read braille.•Tactile images are similar to braille but

include dark lines along the raised areas. •Not all students will need tactile images.•Not all tasks will need to include tactile

images.•We have yet to determine the numbers

who use tactile images regularly in the classroom.

Accommodations (continued) Assistive technology

•Any and all communication devices

•Any type of symbol system TAs (teachers) who translate the task

language using the symbol system used in the classroom may do this for the assessment.

Not all students use a symbol system. Translated materials will need to be

handed in at the end of assessment.

Accommodations (continued) Other

•Questions about accommodations: teacher to School Test Coordinator (STC) to District Test Coordinator (DTC) to LDE, Leslie Lightbourne or Jeanne Johnson

All accommodations used for LAA 1 must be used regularly during classroom instruction.

Suggestions It’s best for STC to handle LAA 1

materials him- or herself rather than hand them off to a special education teacher.

LAA 1 materials have tracking numbers. STCs and DTCs are responsible for LAA

1 materials—security, distribution, daily collection, final collection, and return.

These are not special education functions.

Special Education Responsibilities

Facilitate IEP team in making assessment decision

Complete LAA 1 Participation Criteria Form (annually) to help make determination

Preparation is in classroom instruction

Teach extended standards

LAA 1 Extended Standards Handbook Draft Content areas

•English Language Arts (ELA)

•Mathematics

•Science Grades spans

•Selected general education standards, benchmarks, grade-level-expectations (GLEs)

•Were extended for the significant population

Extended Standards Three complexity levels (CLs) for

each extended standard (ES) These are numbered, 1 being the

least complex task and 3 being the most complex task

Assessment tasks developed to these 3 complexity levels to provide a range of task difficulty

Extended Standards Students who are presymbolic and

at the awareness level have limited representation in this assessment

They must address this assessment as best they can

Extended Standards Extended standards (ESs) are to

the significant populationAS

Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs) are to the general population.

LAA 1 Extended Standards Handbook Draft These books are to arrive in the

districts October 31, to the attention of the DTCs.

Please distribute them to the schools and be sure they get to the special ed personnel as soon as possible.

An accompanying memo advises this distribution and explains the draft status.

Questions Later? Jeanne.Johnson@la.gov (general

questions) Claudia.Davis@la.gov (general

questions) Leslie.Lightbourne@la.gov

(accommodations) Bernadette.Morris@la.gov (materials

distribution, collection, return to vendor)

Questions now?

Thank you!