What is assessable and when and who decides? How will this impact Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)?
Under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, states are required to submit their grade level assessments to a national review and approval process. If the grade level content expectations from which grade level assessments are developed do not meet the NCLB criteria of high, rigorous, academic standards, neither will the grade level assessments. In order to ensure that grade level assessments are approved by the United States Department of Education, it was essential to have the Grade Level Content Expectations reviewed by Achieve, Inc. The MEAP Office is currently designing an assessment system where tests would be developed to measure all of the new grade level expectations with a gradual inclusion of the new grade level expectations. The following chart explains the proposed structure for the future MEAP tests: With the help of local educators, advisory and review committees both core and matrix portions of the test will be determined. Core assessment items are the intersection of th
