Updates:

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Updates

• These appear in red throughout the LAA 1
  PowerPoint and provide current information. This
  information will also be in the Assessment Guide,
  soon to be available, and in the Test
  Administration Manual, which is part of the LAA 1
  assessment materials.

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• LAA 1 Redesign
• October 30, 31, November 1, 2007
• Division of Standards, Assessments
• And Accountability

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Why a Redesign?

• Redesigned LAA 1 must pass USDE peer review
• Peer review requires
• academic based assessments
• aligned/linked to content standards
• at grade level or grade spans
• Retired LAA 1 is 7 years old

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Why Fast Track?

• LDE learned late in the Peer Review process that
  LAA 1 had not been approved.
• LDE was advised to
• Redesign LAA 1
• Implement by spring 2008

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What Remains the Same?

• The participation criteria and form
• Determination made by IEP team
• Use of accommodations
• Assessment window (2/113/28)
• Test administrator is the students teacher

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What Is Changing?

• Redesigned LAA 1 measures extensions of the
  standards, benchmarks, and GLEs
• Referred to as Extended Standards
• Assessments by 4 grade spans
• Three content areas to be assessed, currently
• Assessment design printed items/tasks
• Assessment book per grade span
• Response documents (RDs) easier to mark
• Method of administration, individual
• Use of dual assessors for a sample of students

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Extended Standards

• Developed by testing contractor Data Recognition
  Corporation
• Reviewed, revised, and approved by Louisiana
  educators representing general and special
  education
• 3 committees English language arts, math, and
  science
• LAA 1 items/tasks based on extended standards

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Grade Span Content Area

• 3 and 4
• 5 and 6
• 7 and 8
• High school
• 9
• 10
• 11

• ELA, Math, Science
• ELA, Math
• ELA, Math, Science
• ELA, Math
• ELA, Math
• Science

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Dual Assessors

• Student sample 10 percent of the LAA 1
  population
• Random selection
• Noted with asterisk by student name on school
  roster
• RD with words Scoring Study Document printed
  upper right beside student name to be dually
  assessed

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Dual Assessors

• Central office special education personnel
• Support personnel
• Speech therapist
• Adapted PE teacher
• Occupational therapist
• Another special education teacher
• Not a paraprofessional

Update Members of the Evaluation Team, including
the psychologist, may also serve as dual
assessors.
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Assessment Books and Response Documents

• These documents are formatted by grade span
• One marked Grade Span 34
• One marked Grade Span 56
• One marked Grade Span 78
• One marked Grade Span 911
• Each TA will receive
• One assessment booklet per grade span taught
• One response document per student

Update These materials will be spiral bound and
color coded.
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And . . .

• One duplicate of student assessment book(s)
• One supplement book(s) of tactile images as
  needed
• One Test Administration Manual (TAM)

Update Tactile images will not be used.
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Total Materials for Any One Test Administrator
(TA)

• Student assessment book(s)
• TA duplicate assessment book(s) with script and
  task descriptions for students with vision
  impairments
• Supplemental book with tactile images used as
  needed
• Response Document(s)
• Test Administration Manual (TAM)

Update Task descriptions will be on a separate
sheet and available upon request.
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Assessment Design

• Standardized all students in the same grade span
  respond to the same tasks
• Rubric for each task
• Approximately 25 tasks per content area
• Therefore, approximately 75 tasks total
• Flexibility in the accommodations

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Rubrics

• Per task
• Rubric scores are either
• 2 or 1 or 0
• 1 or 0

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Assessment Materials

• Student books are 11" x 12 1/2" and contain
  large-print tasks.
• They are color coded and spiral bound with hard
  covers so they can be placed on classroom stand
  if so used in class.
• Students in the same grade span use the same
  book.
• Students do not mark or write in the assessment
  book
• TA books are standard size (8 1/2" x 11") and
  contain duplicate tasks plus scripts, rubrics,
  and written descriptions of the graphics to use
  as needed.

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Materials Security

• LAA 1 materials should be treated the same as
  general assessment materials, i.e., secure
  materials, not to be duplicated.
• Must be returned the same day they are checked
  out.
• Student books
• Response Documents
• TA books
• Supplemental book with tactile images

Update Assistive technology that in any way
reproduces the assessment or graphics and task
descriptions for VI-blind are considered secure.
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Materials Security (continued)

• Response document TA will complete this task-
  by-task as student responds to each task.
  Therefore, the RD is confidential.
• RD is designed to be left in the student
  assessment book as a place marker when checked in
  and out.
• RD is removed from student book when assessment
  ends, and all RDs are returned in their own
  envelope at the end of assessment.

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Accommodations

• Tactile images
• Assistive technology
• Other

Update Assistive technology includes
augmentative communication devices, manipulation
in presentation of graphics, objects/manipulatives
, symbol systems, and task descriptions for
VI-blind. These are the most common assistive
technology devices or product systems that may be
used during LAA 1, as long as they are used
routinely in the classroom.
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Accommodations (continued)

• Tactile images
• This population does not read braille.
• Tactile images are similar to braille but include
  dark lines along the raised areas.
• Not all students will need tactile images.
• Not all tasks will need to include tactile
  images.
• We have yet to determine the numbers who use
  tactile images regularly in the classroom.

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Accommodations (continued)

• Assistive technology
• Any and all communication devices
• Any type of symbol system
• TAs (teachers) who translate the task language
  using the symbol system used in the classroom may
  do this for the assessment.
• Not all students use a symbol system.
• Translated materials will need to be handed in at
  the end of assessment.

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Accommodations (continued)

• Other
• Questions about accommodations teacher to School
  Test Coordinator (STC) to District Test
  Coordinator (DTC) to LDE, Leslie Lightbourne or
  Jeanne Johnson
• All accommodations used for LAA 1 must be used
  regularly during classroom instruction.

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Suggestions

• Its best for STC to handle LAA 1 materials him-
  or herself rather than hand them off to a special
  education teacher.
• LAA 1 materials have tracking numbers.
• STCs and DTCs are responsible for LAA 1
  materialssecurity, distribution, daily
  collection, final collection, and return.
• These are not special education functions.

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Special Education Responsibilities

• Facilitate IEP team in making assessment decision
  
• Complete LAA 1 Participation Criteria Form
  (annually) to help make determination
• Preparation is in classroom instruction
• Teach extended standards

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LAA 1 Extended Standards Handbook Draft

• Content areas
• English Language Arts (ELA)
• Mathematics
• Science
• Grades spans
• Selected general education standards, benchmarks,
  grade-level-expectations (GLEs)
• Were extended for the significant population

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Extended Standards

• Three complexity levels (CLs) for each extended
  standard (ES)
• These are numbered, 1 being the least complex
  task and 3 being the most complex task
• Assessment tasks developed to these 3 complexity
  levels to provide a range of task difficulty

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Extended Standards

• Students who are presymbolic and at the awareness
  level have limited representation in this
  assessment
• They must address this assessment as best they
  can

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Extended Standards

• Extended standards (ESs) are to the significant
  population
• AS
• Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs) are to the
  general population.

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LAA 1 Extended Standards Handbook Draft

• These books are to arrive in the districts
  October 31, to the attention of the DTCs.
• Please distribute them to the schools and be sure
  they get to the special ed personnel as soon as
  possible.
• An accompanying memo advises this distribution
  and explains the draft status.

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Questions Later?

• Jeanne.Johnson_at_la.gov (general questions)
• Claudia.Davis_at_la.gov (general questions)
• Leslie.Lightbourne_at_la.gov (accommodations)
• Bernadette.Morris_at_la.gov (materials distribution,
  collection, return to vendor)

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Questions now?

• Thank you!

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