Modified Academic Achievement Standards (AA-MAS) Topics ...

Title: How “Flexible” Are You Alternate (1%) and Modified (2%)
Academic Achievement Standards: Implications for Policy,
Instruction, Preservice , and Inservice
Presenters: Martha Thurlow, Michael McSheehan, and Sue
Rigney
Tuesday July 22, 2008
3:30 – 5:00pm
Wilson ABC
Modified Academic Achievement
Standards (AA-MAS)
Martha Thurlow
on National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
Project Directors’Conference OSEP
Topics
“Flexible”Are You July 22, 2008 How
1. Current Assessment
Approaches
2. Determining Participation
3. Accommodations
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
Current Approaches
Information is limited ---
• States still deciding what to do
• No data in Annual Performance
Reports until 2009 (for 2007-08)
• Peer review information available
only in summary form
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
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Title: How “Flexible” Are You Alternate (1%) and Modified (2%)
Academic Achievement Standards: Implications for Policy,
Instruction, Preservice , and Inservice
Presenters: Martha Thurlow, Michael McSheehan, and Sue
Rigney
Tuesday July 22, 2008
3:30 – 5:00pm
Wilson ABC
In July 2007 Five States Had an Assessment
that They Believed Was an AA-MAS:
• Kansas
• Louisiana
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Oklahoma
Maryland had information on its Web site
about an AA-MAS that the state was
developing.
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
Type of Assessment/Types of Questions
National Center on Educational Outcomes
State Portfolio Multiple Choice Constructed Response Writing Prompt KS LA X MD NC ND X
(NCEO)
X X Total 1 5 1 2 OK
Number of States That Made Selected Changes
Change
No. of States
Distractor Removed 4
Fewer Items 4
Simplified Language 4
Shorter Passages 3
Segmentation of Passages 1
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Title: How “Flexible” Are You Alternate (1%) and Modified (2%)
Academic Achievement Standards: Implications for Policy,
Instruction, Preservice , and Inservice
Presenters: Martha Thurlow, Michael McSheehan, and Sue
Rigney
Tuesday July 22, 2008
3:30 – 5:00pm
Wilson ABC
Determining Eligibility Criteria for
AA-MAS
What do we know about the students
for whom the AA-MAS is appropriate
• Previous Studies
• Current Analyses
• Peer Guidance Suggestions
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
Previous Studies
National Center on Improvement of Educational
Outcomes
Colorado Study Requested by
Legislature
Only .06% for Reading and .15% for Math in the gap2005
Simpson, and Gong, Marion, From
Georgia Study of Persistently Low Performing Students
Highlighted again instructional and accommodations
issues
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
From Cortiella (2007), Learning Opportunities for Your
Child Through Alternate Assessments – Alternate
Assessments based on Modified Achievement Standards
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
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Title: How “Flexible” Are You Alternate (1%) and Modified (2%)
Academic Achievement Standards: Implications for Policy,
Instruction, Preservice , and Inservice
Presenters: Martha Thurlow, Michael McSheehan, and Sue
Rigney
Tuesday July 22, 2008
3:30 – 5:00pm
Wilson ABC
2008 Study
Number of States With Selected Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
No. of States
Student has IEP 10
Student not progressing at expected rate 8
Student is learning grade-level content 6
Student has attempted/failed other tests 6
Student is not receiving instruction on extended/
alternate standards or functional skills
6
Not based on disability category 5
Not based on attendance 5
Not due to social, cultural, language, economic, or
environmental factors
5
Identifying Accommodations for
AA-MAS
• State Approaches
• Accommodations issues for
regular assessment
• Integration of “accommodations”
and universal design principles
into the regular assessment first,
then in the design of the AA-MAS
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
State Approaches – Accommodations Incorporated
into AA-MAS Design
Accommodation
No. of States
Fewer items/page 3
Larger font size 3
Calculator 2
Breaks as needed 2
Key text underlined/bolded 1
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
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Title: How “Flexible” Are You Alternate (1%) and Modified (2%)
Academic Achievement Standards: Implications for Policy,
Instruction, Preservice , and Inservice
Presenters: Martha Thurlow, Michael McSheehan, and Sue
Rigney
Tuesday July 22, 2008
3:30 – 5:00pm
Wilson ABC
Reading Assessment Accommodation Rates in Elementary School: Percentage of
Students with IEPs Taking the Regular Reading Assessment with Accommodations
32
63
54
2005-2006
40
8
72
md
55
47
52
67
41
11
49
52
40
63
35
42
39
71
1
22
md
71
md
53
52
47
77 79
52
61
59
36
80
69
61
24
66
33
57
69
47
45
20 62
94 AS
73
59
BIE
64
65
73
CNMI
Key
≥75% (n=3 regular states and 1 unique states)
50% - 74% (n=25 regular states and 5 unique states)
26% - 49% (n=13 regular states and 1 unique states)
< 25% (n=6 regular states and 0 unique states)
md =missing data (n=3 regular states and
3 unique states)
71
md
67
md
59
md
43
DC
FSM
GU
Palau
PR
RMI
VI
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
Reading Assessment Accommodation Rates in High School: Percentage of Students
with IEPs Taking the Regular Reading Assessment with Accommodations
18
43
53
2005-2006
36
5
51
md
53
44
47
37
md
md
66
49
5
23
56
41
22
45
35
59
70
md
59
81
62
42
53
73
27
65
43
46
0
50
57
77 76
38
79
46
59
0
0 61
100
AS
59
22
BIE
39
28
42
CNMI
Key
≥75% (n=4 regular states and 1 unique state)
50% - 74% (n=17 regular states and 2 unique states)
26% - 49% (n=17 regular states and 3 unique states)
< 25% (n=8 regular states and 1 unique state)
md =missing data (n=4 regular states and
3 unique states)
48
md
61
md
46
md
53
DC
FSM
GU
Palau
PR
RMI
VI
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
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