CMT-CAPT Skills Checklist Technical Manual. - NAAC

illustrates how to link all of the individual Downward Extensions to specific CurriculumFrameworks content standards.)SECTION II—TEST DEVELOPMENT, ADMINISTRATION, SCORING, ANDREPORTINGTEST DEVELOPMENTTypes of approach (e.g., portfolio, performance task, observation checklist, etc.)The CMT/CAPT Skills Checklist was designed as a non-secure, stand-alone workingdocument that teachers can use throughout the school year to:• inform instruction,• monitor student growth and progress, and• document achievement.To assess a student, the child’s primary special education teacher rates the student’sperformance on a 3-point scale (0, 1, and 2). When rating an item, any mode ofcommunication or responding that is typically utilized by the child is acceptable.Each test item consists of 3 Downward Extensions. These Downward Extensions aredescriptors of student performance that relate to Expected Performance statements andContent Standards from the Connecticut Curriculum Framework. Downward Extensionsare arranged in descending order of difficulty, i.e., the most difficult task is listed first,the next most difficult task is listed second and the easiest task is listed last. EachDownward Extension addresses the “essence” of the Content Standard and ExpectedPerformance statements but in a simplified form that makes them more accessible forstudents with significant cognitive disabilities.To illustrate, the following is a Language Arts test item for Grade 7.xv