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- Deleted assessments that will no longer be accepted: CASAS Math GOALS, CASAS Life and Work, BEST Literacy, BEST Plus 2.0. Also deleted wording in the policy that referred to the extension of approvals for these assessments.
- Added new assessments: CASAS Math GOALS 2, CASAS Listening STEPS, CASAS Reading STEPS, BEST Literacy 2.0, BEST Plus 3.0
- Revised the guidance for selecting assessments for appropriate populations to align with new assessments. Additional revisions may be necessary when more information is available from test publishers.
- In the Assessment Training information for TABE, we reduced the number of tests that someone has to administer under the supervision of a qualified assessor from three to two.
- Updated Tables 1 and 2 to reflect changes to the approved assessments.
- Updated the links in the Additional Resources section.
- Deleted outdated wording regarding which assessments to enter in our data collection, eData. The old wording allowed programs to enter only the assessment related to the content area that a student wanted to focus on. Since students can show MSG on any assessment, not just the one with the lowest EFL, we are requiring programs to enter all assessments.
- Removed wording that required programs to keep informal formative and summative assessments in the program records.
- There are also revisions to wording throughout to clean up the text. These revisions do not change the meaning of the content.