STAR DRDP November 16, 2010 ISES

1. Student Participation in Statewide Assessments: STAR DRDPNovember 16, 2010ISES

2. The Presenters Meredith Cathcart Special Education Division Patty Salcedo DR access Project

3. Purpose • Participants will: • be familiar with the STAR Program and student’s with IEPs participation • be familiar with the DRDP access and children with IEPs participation • Review indicators 3 and 7 requirements and procedures • Recommend improvement activities

5. The STAR Program

6. The STAR Program • All students (including students with disabilities) in grades two through eleven must participate in the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program, if enrolled in a California public school • To measure how well students are learning the knowledge and skills identified in the California content standards • Provides information, to be used in part, in the determination of how well schools and/or school districts are meeting state and federal accountability requirements

7. Video Clip • http://www.cse.ucla.edu/products/videos.htlm

8. The STAR Program • California Standards Test (CST) • California Modified Assessment (CMA) • California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA) • Standards-based Test in Spanish (STS)

9. Assessments Most students participate in the CST Some students participate in the CMA A fewstudents participate in the CAPA For All Students -Including students with IEPs or 504 Plans For students with IEPs For students with IEPs

10. Assessment Blueprints The content standards chosen to be tested are identified in the assessment blueprints. Web site: • CST Blueprints: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/blueprints.asp • CMA Blueprints: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/cmablueprints.asp • CAPA Blueprints: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/capablueprints.asp

11. 2011 CMA for ELAGrades 3-11 (including CMA for Writing in grade 7) CMA for MathematicsGrades 3-7 CMA for AlgebraGrades 7-11 (will complete Algebra I during the school year) CMA for GeometryGrades 8-11 (will complete Geometry during the school year) CMA for ScienceGrades 5 and 8 CMA for Life ScienceGrade 10

12. IEP Requirements

13. Purpose of Special Education Students with disabilities receive: “specially designed instruction…to ensure access of the child to the general curriculum, so that the child can meet the educational standards…that apply to all children.” (34 CFR §300.39(b)(3)(i)(ii))

14. “Children with disabilities have the right to a program designed to help them meet the same high standards expected for all children. The written individualized education program (IEP) should spell out how the child’s special needs will be addressed so that they do not pose a barrier to reaching those standards.” School reform and enforceable rights to quality education – Paul Weckstein, chapter in Heubert, ed., 1999, Law and School Reform.

15. Access – A Civil Rights Issue “Excluding students with disabilities from an opportunity to derive educational benefit from education reform becomes a civil rights issue.” (Hitchcock, Meyer, Rose, Jackson, 2002)

16. Participation Criteria Most • Previous Participation • Multiple Measures • Response to Instruction • Grade-level Standards-based Goals • High school diploma • Parent involvement CST Some IEP TEAM PROCESS CMA Few CAPA

17. Closing the GAP through access CST Many students in the GAP do not have access to grade-level content or grade-level, standards-based goals Grade-level, Standards –based Goals, Scaffolding Grade-level content Opportunities to learn Accommodations Assistive technology LRE Supports and services CMA GAP CAPA What’s missing

18. The IEP Documents: Supports and services provide access Present levels of performance Participation in STAR Assessments Accommodations Content areas the Student will be assessed with CMA Grade-level, standards-based goals FAPE

19. Training IEPs Logistics Things to consider…

20. Contact Information Meredith Cathcart, Consultant Special Education Division Assessment, Evaluation and Support Unit mcathcart@cde.ca.gov

21. Before we go… Comments/Questions