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State Report Card
Students with Disabilities
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT These bar charts show the results of the state’s Alternate Assessment in spring 2003. These assessments are designed to evaluate the progress and programs of the most severely challenged children with special educational needs. Only those districts that have more than 20 such children have their scores reported on a district level. The other results reported on page 76 are statewide averages. Most children with disabilities take the regular state tests, with varying degrees of accommodations, depending on the child’s Individual Education Program (IEP) or 504 Plan. About 1 of 200 children in the state has a severe or profound disability, and is therefore unable to participate in the standard testing process. These students take the Alternate Assessment, a series of portfolio entries. These items are based on the state’s content standards, as are the state’s regular assessments. They also have goals that are agreed upon by the student’s IEP and caregivers. The portfolio might include such items as samples of student work, captioned pictures, scripted videotape, or data from the teacher. The teacher develops these portfolios over time, not during a scheduled testing period. Each portfolio is evaluated by two trained scorers, using 27 standards derived and adapted from the regular state tests and 3 more standards addressing life skills appropriate to the child with severe disabilities. The results from the Alternate Assessment are
included in the school, district, and state scores reported throughout
Information Works!. WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR You are hoping to see that all children who participated in the Alternate Assessment Program achieved the standard, and thereby met the proficiency goals set forth for them. The Alternate Assessments provide information to the state, district, and school about the performance of students with severe special needs and their programs; these assessments give parents and caregivers standardized, clear measures of student progress.
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