Iowa Alternate Assessment

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• Legal Requirements
• State Team
• Timeline for the IAA Process
• IAA Process Webinars
• Framework for Effective Instruction Webinar
• FAQs
• AEA Contacts
• Supporting Documents

The Iowa Alternate Assessment ( IAA ) promotes fair measurement of student knowledge on the Iowa Core Content Standards and Benchmarks. The Iowa Alternate Assessment is for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities whose academic performance is appropriately judged against alternate achievement standards. The Iowa Alternate Assessment measures student performance in Reading, Mathematics, and for some students, Science. The Iowa Alternate Assessment process involves providing information about student characteristics, teaching students academic content throughout the school year, reporting student performance and having evidence of performance on academic skills, collaborating with building administrators about the alternate assessment process and students' performance on the assessment, reporting results to parents in ways that describe what students are doing and how students have improved over time, and providing information to the Iowa Department of Education on the efficiency and effectiveness of the alternate assessment process.

 

Legal Requirements

The Alternate Assessment is part of the No Child Left Behind legislation and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The Alternate Assessment must measure student performance in Reading and Math, and for some students, Science.

 

State Team

• Steve Maurer -- This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Emily Thatcher -- This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Marty Ikeda -- This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Timeline for the IAA Process

September 1, 2009: IAA Process Begins
September 1 - October 31, 2009: Complete Student Profile--http://iaa.northcentralrrc.org -- Teachers will need to register and create a username and password (please keep a record of this information)
February 15--March 31, 2010: On-line data entry of rating scales
March 31, 2010: IAA process, Assurance process and Teacher Survey completed
May 3, 2010: Evidence Audit Notification
May 21, 2010: Evidence due to the Department

 

IAA Process Webinars

The IAA Webinars review the instructions for each of the parts of the Iowa Alternate Assessment process. These instructions provide guidance to teachers and administrators on how to administer the IAA Rating Scales to students with the most significant cognitive disabilities.

• General Overview
• Student Profile
• Rating Scales
• Evidence

 

Framwork for Effective Instruction Webinar

The following webinar provides an overview of the Framework for Effective Instruction which merges the curriculum components of content, instruction, and assessment of the Iowa Core Content Standards and Benchmarks to the Iowa Alternate Assessment 1%.

• General Overview

 

FAQs

IAA FAQs2009-2010 (Revised 8/26/2009)

 

AEA Contacts

2009-2010 IAA Contacts

Supporting Documents

Guides

Guidelines for Determining Alternate Assessment Participation

IAA Participation Guidelines 2009-2010

IAA Parent Guide 2009-2010

(NEW) Parent Friendly Guide - (more parent friendly-does not replace the original Parent Guide)

(NEW) IAA Parent Brochure in Spanish

IAA Parent Guide in Spanish 2009-2010

(NEW) IAA Parent Brochure- What you have always wanted to know about the Iowa Alternate Assessment, but didn't know how to ask...

(NEW) PowerPoint Slide Show for Parents (11-10-09)

IAA Administrator's Guide 2009-2010

Forms

5 Step Process for Effective Instruction

5 Step Process for Effective Instruction

Record of Classroom Performance Log

Assurance Form Checklist

IAA Rating Scales - Operational definitions of terms used in the IAA Rating Scale

IAA Student Profiles Symbolic Levels of Communication

Operationalized Rating Scale Verbs 2009-2010

• Reading Rating Scales
  • IAA Reading Rating Scale Grades 3-5 ( 2009-07-13 13:07:42)
  • IAA Reading Rating Scale Grades 6-8 ( 2009-07-13 13:09:12)
  • IAA Reading Rating Scale Grades 9-12 ( 2009-07-13 13:10:37)
• Math Rating Scales
  • IAA Math Rating Scale Grades 3-5 ( 2009-07-13 13:12:09)
  • IAA Math Rating Scale Grades 6-8 ( 2009-07-13 13:13:33)
  • IAA Math Rating Scale Grades 9-12 ( 2009-07-13 13:14:54)
• Science Rating Scales
  • IAA Science Rating Scale Grade 5 ( 2009-07-13 13:16:25)
  • IAA Science Rating Scale Grade 8 ( 2009-07-13 13:18:01)
  • IAA Science Rating Scale Grade 11 ( 2009-07-13 13:19:21)

Cut Scores

IAA Cut Scores by Content Area ( 2009-07-13 13:44:34) - This file provides a summary of the cut scores by content area.

IAA Alternate Achievement Standards

Math Performance Level Descriptors & Cut Scores 2009-2010

Reading Performance Level Descriptors & Cut Scores 2009-2010

Sciences Performance Level Descriptors & Cut Scores 2009-2010

Technical Specifications

Iowa Alternate Assessment 1% Technical Manual - Summarizes guiding principles, test development, administration/scoring/reporting, reliability, and validity of the alternate assessment. Data are summarized from 2006-Fall 2009.

Iowa Alternate Assessment 1% Item Statistics - This document summarizes item responses used in the Iowa Alternate Assessment Bias Review.

Iowa Alternate Assessment 1% Technical Manual for Science - A technical manual was developed for Science Peer Review that summarizes technical data for the 1% Alternate Assessment in Science at Grades 5, 8, and 11.