Access Points

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Access Points

• For Students with Significant Cognitive
  Disabilities

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Access points describe challenging learning
expectations for students with significant
cognitive disabilities.
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Access Points

• Learning expectations for students
• Embedded in the Sunshine State Standards
• Reflect the core intent of the standards with
  reduced levels of complexity
• Accommodations (not statedprovided, as needed)

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Federal Requirements

• NCLB high expectations for ALL
• Specified for each grade level
• Students with the most significant cognitive
  disabilities may use alternate assessment based
  on access points.
• IDEA access to the general curriculum

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Florida Alternate Assessment

• Pilot Test Fall, 2007
• Operational Test Spring, 2008
• Reading
• Writing
• Mathematics
• Science

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Who Will Use Access Points?

• Only students with most significant cognitive
  disabilities
• Students who meet the criteria for alternate
  assessment
• Other ESE students are working on regular
  benchmarks with accommodations as necessary

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Participants in Alternate Assessments
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Levels of Complexity

• Describe the knowledge and skills required at
  each grade level
• Participatory Supported Independent
• Pa. Su. In.

More Complex
Less Complex
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Levels of Complexity
Grade 7
Sunshine State Standards
Grade 6
In
Su
In
Su
Pa
Pa
Less More Complex Complex
Less More Complex Complex
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Content Alignment

• Content is academic reflects science
• Content reflects assigned grade level
• Content differs from grade level benchmarks in
  range, balance, and depth of knowledge
• Flowers, Wakeman, Browder, Karvonen, (2007),
  National Alternate Assessment Center, Charlotte,
  NC

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Life Science

• Grade 1
• Big Idea 4 Heredity and Reproduction
• SC.1.L.4.1 Make observations that plants and
  animals closely resemble their parents, but there
  are always variations among individuals.

SC.1.L.4.In.a Match offspring of specific animals
to adult animals. SC.1.L.4.Su.a Recognize that
baby plants and animals have parents. SC.1.L.4.Pa.
a Identify own parents.
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Physical Science

• Grade 6
• Big Idea 6 Forces and Changes in Motion
• SC.6.P.6.3 Investigate that unbalanced forces
  acting on an object changes its speed, or
  direction, or both.

SC.6.P.6.3.In.c Demonstrate and describe how
forces change the speed and direction of objects.
SC.6.P.6.3.Su.c Recognize that force can change
the movement of an object. SC.6.P.6.3.Pa.c
Recognize the source of force acting on an object.
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Earth and Space Science

• Grades 9-12
• Standard 3 Earth Systems and Patterns
• SC.912.E.3.4 Predict future weather conditions
  based on present observations and conceptual
  models.

SC.912.E.3.In.d Use weather maps and models to
review data, identify current weather patterns,
and predict future patterns. SC.912.E.3.Su.d
Describe the daily weather in a given location
over the course of a week to identify current
weather patterns. SC.912.E.3.Pa.d Identify
elements in the environment that help to predict
weather (gray clouds, sunshine).
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Online Review

• Find the link to the online review
• Flstandards.org
• www.cpt.fsu.edu/ese