2009-2010Kansas Alternate Assessment

Kansas Alternate Assessment

Kansas Alternate Assessment

All indicators will be open to each student this year because indicators have been renumbered.

The restriction of not being able to use indicators on which a student obtained a 4 or 5 the previous year will go back into effect for 2010-2011 school year.

Kansas Alternate Assessment

Only Reading, Math, and Science will be assessed this year. No indicators can be entered for

writing, or history- government.

All indicators MUST be entered by December 30, 2009.

Students new to the district after December 30, 2009, will not be assessed on the Kansas Alternate Assessment

Kansas Alternate Assessment

The CETE Evidence Label has

been revised

and MUST be used this

year .

Kansas Alternate Assessment

Science Extended Standards – When picking the five indicators for science, you must pick one indicator from each of the first 4 standards. The last indicator can be chosen from any of the seven standards.

Kansas Alternate AssessmentAdministrators MUST sign off to assure the

following for each student being assessed: NO functional activities are being used for this

student’sAlternate Assessment (by order of the USDoE). Indicators are aligned to the activities chosen for

this student. Only appropriate assessable activities are used

for this student’s portfolio. A student’s opinion is not an assessable activity.

How does the student fail the activity?Sign off should be competed before testing

begins, by December 1,2009 so teachers can make adjustments if necessary.

Kansas Alternate Assessment Examples

Activities for the KAA need to be activities that focus on the academic content of the area being assessed.

The activities need to be about Reading, Math, and Science

The activities cannot be functional life skills, such as dressing, feeding, hand washing, toileting, etc.

Here’s an example of using academic content: ER.1.4.3 Follows a scheduleThe student reads his schedule (using pictures

or words) to get to class on time.The academic concept can be applied to a school

activity.EM.1.19 recognizes coins or currencyThe student counts coin combinations needed

to buy a pop from the vending machine.

Kansas Alternate Assessment