Overview of the Dynamic Learning Maps™ Alternate Assessment System

1. Overview of the Dynamic Learning Maps™ Alternate Assessment System Required Training Module 1

2. Learning Objectives • Describe the components of the DLM system: • Learning Maps • Claims and Conceptual Areas • DLM Essential Elements • Testlets and Linkage Levels • Clarify the security demands of the DLM system

8. English Language Arts Claim 1Students will comprehend text in increasingly complex ways

9. Mathematics – Claim 1Students will demonstrate increasingly complex understanding of number sense

12. Definition of Essential Elements The DLM Essential Elements (EEs) are specific statements of the content and skills that are linked to the College and Career Readiness standards’ grade-level specific expectations for students with significant cognitive disabilities.

13. DLM Essential Elements • Reduced depth, breadth, complexity • Provide appropriate level of rigor and challenge • Are a starting point for defining achievement standards • Are not functional or pre-K skills

14. For example… • One College and Career Readiness Standard for fourth grade writing reads: • W.4.2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. a. Introduce a topic clearly and group related information in paragraphs and sections; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

15. The Essential Element reads: EE.W.4.2 Write to convey ideas and information clearly.   • Select a topic and related visual/tactual/multimedia information.

16. The two are directly linked: • Both: • emphasize writing to convey ideas and information • address topic • include the use of related illustrations and multimedia

17. Fourth Grade Mathematics Example College and Career Readiness Standard Essential Element 4.MD.5. Recognize angles as geometric shapes that are formed wherever two rays share a common endpoint, and understand concepts of angle measurement: - An angle is measured with reference to a circle with its center at the common endpoint of the rays, by considering the fraction of the circular arc between the points where the two rays intersect the circle. An angle that turns through 1/360 of a circle is called a “one-degree angle,” and can be used to measure angles… EE.4.MD.5. Recognize angles in geometric shapes.

19. DLM Testlets

20. ELA Testlet • Designed around a text • The first reading is an engagement activity in order to: • Motivate students • Provide a context • Activate prior knowledge • The second reading includes questions

21. Math Testlets • Begin with engagement activity to: • Provide a context • Activate prior knowledge • Series of items addressing one or more Essential Elements

22. Content of a Testlet Identify two related points the author makes in an informational text

23. DLM Linkage Levels • Initial Precursor • Distal Precursor • Proximal Precursor • Target • Successor

24. ELA.RL.3.5 Determine the beginning, middle, and end of a familiar story with a logical order.

25. ELA.EE.RL.3.5 Determine the beginning, middle, and end of a familiar story with a logical order. ELA.EE.RL.3.5

26. ELA.EE.RL.3.5 Determine the beginning, middle, and end of a familiar story with a logical order.

27. Initial Precursor ELA- 1472 Can express interest in book sharing. SequenceELA.EE.RL.3.5 Determine the beginning, middle, and end of a familiar story with a logical order. ELA- 1097 Expresses recognition of familiar text. ELA-1102 Can differentiate between text and pictures or braille and tactile graphics/objects that accompany the text. Distal Precursor ELA-1382 Can name objects in pictures/tactile graphics or name objects used to represent book pictures during shared reading. ELA-1214 Can identify concrete details in a familiar story (characters, objects) ELA-1197 Identify the beginning and end of a familiar story. Proximal Precursor Target ELA- 1191 Identify the beginning, middle, and end of a familiar story. Successor ELA-1355 Identify the beginning and end of a story.

28. Testlets in Linkage Levels • Each student completes a unique combination of testlets across multiple Essential Elements • The system will use dynamic routing to move students from testlet to testlet

29. Pause for Activity

30. DLM Test Security

31. Test Security Standards

32. Test Security Standard 1 Testlets are NOT to be stored or saved on computers or personal storage devices.

33. Test Security Standard 2 Testlets are NOT to be shared via email or other file-sharing systems.

34. Test Security Standard 3 Testlets are NOT to be reproduced by any means.

35. Test Security Standard 4 Testlets are NOT to be printed.

36. SeeTest Administration Manual for full test security standards

37. DLM Security Agreement • All educators complete it • Security Agreement will be renewed every year • Agreement with the terms is required for those who administer tests

38. Direct questions about test security to to your local DLM Assessment Coordinator

39. The present publication was developed under grant 84.373X100001 from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. The views expressed herein are solely those of the author(s), and no official endorsement by the U.S. Department should be inferred.