CMT-CAPT Skills Checklist Technical Manual. - NAAC

• The student requires direct instruction in multiple settings to successfullygeneralize skills to natural settings, including home, school and community;and• 4. The student’s instructional program includes participation in the generaleducation curriculum to the extent appropriate and may also include afunctional and life skills component.The following factors MAY NOT serve as the sole basis for a determination that athestudent should participate in the CMTCAPT Skills Checklist:• • The student’s disability category (e.g., intellectual disability, autism, etc.);• • The student’s placement (e.g., self-contained classroom, regional program,etc);• • The amount of time spent with non-disabled peers (e.g., 20% of the time,10% of the time, etc.);• • An expectation that, even with accommodations, the student will not scorewell on the standard version of the CAPT.Formatted: Indent: Left: 0",Hanging: 0.25"Formatted: Bulleted + Level: 1 +Aligned at: 0.5" + Tab after: 0.75"+ Indent at: 0.75"While there are no specific IQ requirements for participation in the CMT/CAPT Skills Checklist,students who are assessed with the Checklist typically score two or more standard deviationsbelow the mean in terms of overall cognitive ability and have significant limitations both inintellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social and practicaladaptive skills. Frequently these students have been identified as having an IntellectualDisability (ID); however, students with other types of disabilities (e.g., Autism, MultipleDisabilities, Traumatic Brain Injury, etc.) who have evidence in their files of a significantcognitive disability may also satisfy the criteria for participation in the CMT/CAPT SkillsChecklist.Beginning with the 2006-2007 test administration, teachers will be required to complete theLearner Characteristics Inventory (see Appendix M) developed by the National AlternateAssessment Center at the University of Kentucky.On advice of Connecticut’s Technical Advisory Committee this inventory of learnercharacteristics will be completed 3 or more months prior to administration of the CMT/CAPTSkills Checklist to minimize the possibility of a “halo” affect from completing the inventory, i.e.,rating the student on the Checklist to ensure agreement with the learner characteristics outlinedin the inventory.This collection of information about each student recommended for the CMT/CAPT SkillsChecklist will permit the Connecticut State Department of Education to monitor the Planningand Placement Team identification procedures described earlier and will also permit theDepartment to match each student with demographic and achievement data contained in theDepartment’s Public School Information System (PSIS) data base.Formatted: Right: -0.5"x