Assessment Policy
P2. “CASAS Life and Work, and Life Skills can be used for ESL until February 2, 2023. Sunsetting of these tests will extend to June 30th 2023”. The extension of ESL forms has been updated.
P3. Program year 2022-2023 was changed into 2023-2024.
P3. “CASAS Life and Work, and Life Skills can be used for ESL until February 2, 2023. Sunsetting of these tests will extend to June 30th 2023”. The extension of ESL forms has been updated.
P4. Program year 2022-2023 was changed into 2023-2024.
P5. Changed “A. All Iowa AEL programs must employ proper testing, scoring, and reporting protocols being used” into “A. All Iowa AEL programs must provide assurances that the employ proper testing, scoring and reporting protocols detailed in the document for the standardized instrument (s) are being used.”
P5. Added “by the Quarterly Data Quality Report and the Monthly Checklist (Appendix ) to the end of D.
P5. Added “Refer to Appendix B for ELL reportable individuals” to the end of G.1.
P7. “CASAS Life and Work, and Life Skills can be used for ESL until February 2, 2023. Sunsetting of these tests will extend to June 30th 2023”. The extension of ESL forms was updated.
P7. I.2. “Entering daily hours is strongly recommended” was changed into “Entering daily hours is required.”
P8. Program year 2022-2023 was changed into 2023-2024.
P8. The first table was updated.
P10. Program year 2022-2023 was changed into 2023-2024.
P10. Added “C. For low level English language learners follow the guidelines for the initial interview process and oral assessment as detailed in the “CASAS Intake Screening Process”. For participants with great difficulty do not test but collect demographic data and enroll in beginning ESL. Provide some classroom or one-on-one instruction, and then give Beginning Literacy Reading, Form 27 as the pretest.” Hyperlink was added to the “CASAS Intake Screening Process”.
P13. Student update was changed into student daily.
P13. Added “Review the data quality check report and data checklist each quarter” to the end of data reporting.
P22. “Local program coordinators will monitor for assessment policy by” was changed into “local program coordinators will ensure compliance with the assessment policy by.”
P22. “Training for local program staff must be provided annually by the program coordinators or certified trainer and needs to include training on the current APG. This can be done through a face to face or through a video/web conferencing service,” was changed into “Offering an annual refresher to all instructors by the program coordinators or certified trainer on the current version of the Assessment Policy Guidelines (APG).”
P22. “Date of training” was added to the required copies for monitoring.
P23. “Registration for trainings may be done through the MyLearningPlan” was changed into “registration for trainings must be documented.”
P24. Section about CASAS training was updated and table below was added.
Coordinator |
Data Specialist |
Proctor |
Instructor |
|
CASAS eTest |
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Module 1 CASAS Implementation Basics |
Every 2 years |
Every 2 years |
Optional |
Optional |
Module 2 CASAS eTests Implementation |
Every 2 years |
Every 2 years |
Optional |
Optional |
eTest Coordinator Certification |
Every 2 years |
Every 2 years |
Optional |
Optional |
eTest Proctor certification |
Optional* |
Optional* |
Every year |
Optional |
Module 4 Test Results and Reports |
Every 2 years |
Every 2 years |
Optional |
Recommended |
Remote testing certification (if provided) |
Optional* |
Optional* |
Every year |
|
CASAS paper |
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Module 1 CASAS Implementation Basics |
Every 2 years |
Every 2 years |
Optional |
Optional |
Module 3 Paper Test Implementation |
Every 2 years |
Every 2 years |
Optional |
Optional |
Paper Test Proctor certificate |
Optional* |
Optional* |
Every year |
Optional |
Module 4 Test Results and Reports |
Every 2 years |
Every 2 years |
Optional |
Recommended |
Added CASAS Intake Screening Summary to Appendix A and B.
Appendix D. “Adult literacy educators must document reasons for ALL post-assessments administered prior to the minimum required 40 hours of instruction as stipulated in the Iowa Assessment Policy Guidelines. Post assessment before 40 hours is restricted to ONLY the approved reasons provided below,” was changed into “Adult literacy educators must document reasons for any irregularity occurred with the administering of federally approved assessments ALL post-assessments administered prior to the minimum required 40 hours of instruction as stipulated in the Iowa Assessment Policy Guidelines.
Appendix H. An additional paragraph was added to PERPA Consent form (both in English and Spanish).
Added targets for PY2023 and PY2024 in Appendix M.
MindPlay was added as an approved distance learning curriculum.
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