Oklahoma Modified Alternate Assessment Program OMAAP

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Oklahoma Modified Alternate Assessment
Program(OMAAP)

• Office of Accountability and Assessment and
  Special Education Services

Sandy Garrett State Superintendent of Public
Instruction
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Agenda

• Oklahoma School Testing Program (OSTP)
• Goals for Inclusion of Students with Disabilities
  in the Oklahoma School Testing Program
• Development of Modified Assessments
• Modification of Blueprints and Item
  Specifications
• Modification of Items
• Inclusion of Alternate Assessment Scores for
  Adequate Yearly Progress Determinations
• Additional Modified Assessment Information
• Changes to the Individualized Education Programs
  (IEPs)
• Questions and Answers ???
• Contact Information

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Oklahoma School Testing Program (OSTP)

• General Assessment - Assessment scored against
  grade level achievement standards
• Modified Assessment - Alternate assessment scored
  against modified grade-level standards
• Portfolio Assessment - Alternate assessment
  scored against alternate achievement standards
  appropriate only for students with most
  significant cognitive disabilities
  CARG-A

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Goals for Inclusion of Students with Disabilities
in the Oklahoma School Testing Program

• Assess majority of students with assessments
  aligned to general achievement standards
• Provide students access to the general curriculum
• Develop universally designed assessments
• Ensure both special and regular education
  teachers set high expectations for SWD and
  understand State content standards

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Population for Students Participating in the
Modified Assessments

• These modified assessments are intended for gap
  students for whom the Oklahoma Alternate
  Assessment Program and the general OSTP
  assessments are inappropriate.
• These students represent roughly 2 of the
  student population.
• The goal is to provide a test that is comparable
  to OSTP but more accessible for this population

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Development of Modified Assessments
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Alignment

• The items on these modified tests align to the
  Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS).

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Source of Items

• Items are selected from previously administered
  Oklahoma School Testing Program Core Curriculum
  Tests (OSTP OCCT).
• Items are modified for this assessment.

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Number of Items per TestELA/Reading
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Number of Items per TestMath
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Number of Items per TestScience
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Number of Items per TestU.S. History
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Modification of Blueprints and Item
Specifications
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Modified Blueprints

• Modified blueprints use same percentage of items
  per standard as original blueprints.
• Committee of teachers will review blueprints to
  confirm appropriate distribution of items across
  the standards and objectives.

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Modified Item Specifications

• General assessment item specs have been modified
  to become OMAAP item specs.
• Committees will review draft OMAAP item specs
  before reviewing items.

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Modified Item Specifications

• For each OMAAP objective committees decide on
• Emphasis
• Stimulus Attributes
• Format
• Content Limits
• Distractor Domain

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Modification of Items
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General Modifications

• Three answer choices
• Two or three items per page
• One column format
• Larger font than in OSTP test booklets
• Student marks responses directly in test booklet.

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General Modifications

• Reduce amount and level of reading as much as
  possible.
• Bold and underline key text in items and passages
  as appropriate.
• Avoid use of best / better / most likely /
  closest.
• Avoid use of no change as an answer choice.

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Item Modification ELA/Reading

• Break passages apart.
• Show a portion of the passage followed by the
  items related to that part of the passage.
• Writing Prompts
• Simplify prompt.
• Modify rubric.

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Item ModificationMath

• Display the number on all sides for questions
  about perimeter.
• Avoid items with negative and positive answer
  choices (4 and 4).
• Use grids for area questions.

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Item ModificationMath

• Avoid or modify questions with best or
  closest.
• Avoid complicated art.
• Avoid items that ask students to redefine their
  perception of an object (e.g. fold this object
  along the dotted line).

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Item ModificationScience

• Reduce amount of reading.
• When possible use art instead of text (to reduce
  reading).
• Simplify tables and charts by removing irrelevant
  rows or columns.
• Put a box around formulas.

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Item ModificationU.S. History

• Reduce amount of reading.
• When possible use art instead of text (to reduce
  reading).
• Simplify tables and charts by removing irrelevant
  rows or columns.
• Simplify maps and graphs when possible.

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Depth of Knowledge

• Most items will be DOK Level 1 or Level 2.

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DOK Level 1

• Level 1 requires the student to recall facts,
  terms, definitions, or simple procedures perform
  simple algorithms or apply formulas.
• One-step, well-defined, or straight algorithmic
  procedures should be included at this level.

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DOK Level 2

• Level 2 requires the student to make some
  decisions as to how to approach the problem or
  activity.
• Level 2 activities include making observations
  and collecting data classifying, comparing, and
  organizing data and organizing and displaying
  data in tables, charts, and graphs.

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Example of a Modified Item
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Inclusion of Alternate Assessment Scores for
Adequate Yearly Progress Determinations
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1 Cap on Alternate Achievement Standards in
AYP(Portfolio Assessment)

• Applies to the number of proficient and advanced
  scores that may be included in AYP determinations
• Does not limit the number of students taking an
  assessment against alternate achievement
  standards
• Applies at the state and district levels
• Alternate assessments based on grade level
  achievement standards would not be affected by
  the 1 cap

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1 Cap Information

• Can appeal 1
• May go over 1 (with appeal)
• May borrow from 2 to make 1
• May not borrow from 1 to make 2

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2 Cap on Modified Achievement Standards in
AYP(Modified Assessment)

• Applies to the number of proficient and advanced
  scores that may be included in AYP determinations
• Does not limit the number of students taking an
  assessment against modified achievement standards
• Applies at the state and district levels

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2 Cap Information

• Can not appeal 2
• Can not go over 2 but may count overage at 1
  (if under 1) to make total of 3
• May not borrow from 1 to make 2

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Examples
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Additional Modified Assessment Information
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Additional Modified Assessment Information

• Same administration window as the Grades 3-8
  general assessment (Grades 3-8 and EOI)
• Modified writing assessment available only for
  English II
• Students in grade 5 and grade 8 must be
  administered the general writing assessment
• Test security

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Accommodations Available
Accommodations for Multiple Choice Assessments
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Accommodations Available (continued)
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Changes to the Individualized Education Programs
(IEPs)
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What changes must be made in Individualized
Education Programs (IEPs)?

• To place a child in the OMAAP, an IEP meeting
  will have to be scheduled to discuss
• Eligibility for placement in an alternate
  assessment.
• Changes to the curriculum.
• OMAAP is an alternate assessment
• Goals and objectives will be required for all
  subjects that will be assessed on the OMAAP.
• Goals and objectives will have to be written for
  the grade of which the student is enrolled.

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Assessment Options

• 1. General Assessment
• 2. General Assessment with Accommodations
• 3. Modified Assessment in all subjects available
• 4. Modified Assessment in all subjects available
  with Accommodations
• 5. Combination of Modified and General
  Assessments
• 6. Combination of Modified and General
  Assessments with Accommodations
• 7. Portfolio

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Modified Assessment Information

• Modified Assessments available for
• Grade 3 Mathematics and Reading
• Grade 4 Mathematics and Reading
• Grade 5 Mathematics, Reading, and Science
• Grade 6 Mathematics and Reading
• Grade 7 Mathematics and Reading
• Grade 8 Mathematics, Reading, and Science
• End-of-Instruction Algebra I, English II, U.S.
  History, and Biology I

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Changes to the Individualized Education Programs
(IEPs)

• Accommodations for the OMAAP will need to be
  addressed on the IEP.
• Only approved accommodations are allowed on the
  OMAAP.
• All accommodations should be clearly identified
  in the IEP.

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Questions and Answers
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Contact Information

• Jennifer_Stegman_at_sde.state.ok.us
• Amy_Daugherty_at_sde.state.ok.us
• Joyce_Defehr_at_sde.state.ok.us
• Malissa_Cook_at_sde.state.ok.us
• Karen_Robertson_at_sde.state.ok.us
• Janine_Hope_at_sde.state.ok.us

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