Are You Smarter Than a 4th Grader

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Are You Smarter Than a 4th Grader????

• CRES
• Alternate Assessment Training
• September 2008

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Students who have an Alternate Assessment must
meet the following criteria

• Student has a significant cognitive disability
• Student requires substantial modifications to
  general curriculum and requires instruction
  multiple levels below age/grade level.
• Student requires instruction focused on
  application of state standards through essential
  life skills.
• All of the above.

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Applications for each Alternate Assessment entry
may be selected from one of the following

• Ohios Academic Content Standards and grade-level
  indicators.
• Previous examples of Alternate Assessments.
• Resources compiled by really old teachers.
• Application lists in Appendices 3-8 and 10.

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COE, in Alternate Assessment-land, is an acronym
for

• Compilation of Examples
• Committee of Excellence
• Collection of Evidence
• Coordinated Office of Education

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In Alternate Assessment, only 1 of the total
tested population may have an Alternate
Assessment.

• True
• False

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Information on the COESAD may be written in

• Number 2 black-lead pencil
• Ballpoint pen
• Permanent marker
• All of the above

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Entry sheets may be filled out in

• Number 2 black-lead pencil
• Ballpoint pen
• Permanent marker
• All of the above

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In an Entry, each application should have 3 tasks
with a unique type of evidence for each task.

• True
• False

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Tasks selected should clearly relate /align to

• The Standard
• The Benchmark
• The Application
• All of the above

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A students successful performance on Alternate
Assessment tasks should be

• 80
• 100
• Equivalent to a B
• All of the above

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Session 2
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Alternate Assessments are meant to showcase a
students mastery not progress.

• True
• False

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Each task should have one unique type of evidence
that best displays the students performance on
that task.

• True
• False

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ODE recommends using three pieces of evidence
(one piece per task) for each entry.

• True
• False

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Evidence for any one task would include the
following

• Graded work samples
• Data charts
• Checklists
• Any one of the above

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Videotapes or audiotapes must include written
scripts. Those scripts must contain

• Criteria for grading
• Student Identifying Information
• Level of prompting
• All of the above

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Schools should retain copies of the COESAD for
future reference.

• True
• False

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Break Out SessionsAuditorium CoED 4
SoftwareRoom C Scoring