CMT-CAPT Skills Checklist Technical Manual. - NAAC

The annual training for teachers who are utilizing the CMT/CAPT Skills Checklist isevaluated by the State Education Resource Center, an agency that contracts with theCSDE to coordinate Department training activities. Each participant completes acomprehensive evaluation of the training activity, including recommendations for futuretraining. During the 2005-2006 academic year more than 800 individuals participated intraining related to the CMT/CAPT Skills Checklist. Of this group, approximately 95percent assigned positive to very positive ratings to the training and judged it to becomplete and of practical value in terms of their use of the Checklist to assess students.Certified Rater training will be evaluated in terms of the percentage of participants who,complete the training and achieve a score of 90 percent or higher agreement on theirratings of student performance on the secure assessment videos at the completion oftraining. Since the training is to a specific standard with participants having the option ofrepeated practice sessions, the goal is to have 100 percent of the participants whocomplete training reach the 90 percent criterion.SCORINGScoring rules and criteriaAs was described earlier, each Downward Extension on the CMT/CAPT Skills Checklistrelates to a specific grade level Expected Performance statement on the ConnecticutCurriculum Framework. These Downward Extensions are rated by the student’s primaryspecial education teacher in collaboration with other members of the student’seducational team. Ratings indicate the extent to which the student has mastered specificacademic skills described in the test item.Items are rated on the 3-point scale shown below. A response for every item is required.When rating an item, any mode of communication or responding that is typically utilizedby the child is acceptable. Raters are instructed, whenever possible, to identify amodality that will permit the student to demonstrate the basic skill addressed by the item.This means that for some students skills will be demonstrated verbally; while for othersskills will be demonstrated by gestures, eye gaze, assistive technology, etc. For example,Item RR 7.7 (Reading and Responding, Grade 7, Item 7) provides that the student will“Correctly answer two or more questions related to the grade level content” For a studentwith a communication impairment, the answers may be signed rather or produced using acomputer rather than spoken to assess her/him on this item.Formatted: Font: 12 pt, Not Bold,Not ItalicFormatted: Font: 12 pt, Not Bold,Not Italic, No underlineFormatted: Font: 12 pt, Not Bold,Not ItalicFormatted: Font: 12 pt, Not Bold,Not ItalicFormatted: Font: 12 pt, Not Italicxxxii