The Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation (CETE) at the University of Kansas announces that Colorado has joined the collaborative of educational experts working to develop the Career Pathways Assessment System (cPass). cPass is a new, innovative assessment for determining students’ career readiness. This tool will use computer-based tests with innovative item types and performance assessments to help students and states compete in an ever-changing global economy and ensure a capable and effective workforce.

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The Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation will hold the “Conference on Statistical Detection of Potential Test Fraud” on May 23 and 24 at the University of Kansas, Lawrence campus. Though test fraud is a topic of growing public concern, this is the first ever scholarly conference focusing on statistical approaches for identifying such problems. Conference topics include current statistical methods used by testing organizations to identify potential test fraud, and research into new statistical approaches.

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Progress has been made one year into a five-year grant awarded in 2010 to the University of Kansas Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation (CETE) by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. The $22 million grant — the largest in KU history — was awarded to fund development and evaluation of a new generation of alternate assessments for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities — the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternative Assessment System (DLM). Thirteen states are participating in the project: Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

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Please enroll your students for Braille booklets as soon as possible so that CETE can order them from the American Printing House for the Blind. The deadline for requesting Braille test forms for your students is January 6. If you order after that date, CETE cannot guarantee delivery of Braille booklets in time for the opening of the test window on February 15.

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by Chris Kieffer/NEMS Daily Journal/NEMS360.com

Mississippi's vocational students will soon take a new test to measure readiness for their chosen career.

The Mississippi Department of Education is collaborating with researchers at the University of Kansas to develop the Career Pathways Assessment System, which will be ready for use by 2014.

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Four Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation (CETE) staff members are presenting at the 2011 TASH conference in Atlanta this week. TASH is a disability advocacy organization that advocates for human rights and inclusion for people with significant disabilities. CETE staff members Alan Sheinker, Carrie Mark, and Sookyung Shin will present the session “Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment System (DLM-AAS): A new generation assessment for students with significant cognitive disabilities.”

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The Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation (CETE) at the University of Kansas announces a partnership with educational experts from Kansas and Mississippi to develop the Career Pathways Assessment System (cPass), a new, innovative assessment for determining students’ career readiness. This tool will use computer-based tests with innovative item types and performance assessments to benefit students and states looking to compete in an ever-changing global economy and will help ensure a capable and effective workforce.

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CETE recently identified an issue with the KCA calculator tool which caused the KCA calculator to display incorrectly with certain calculations/computations. The issue has been fixed and CETE has been working with KSDE to release an update/patch for the KCA software to resolve the calculator issue. This update/patch is critical for you to install because the KCA calculator tool will be used by students when taking Formative, Interim, and State assessments. In order to deploy the patch, please follow the instructions below:

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The Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation (CETE) at the University of Kansas will, for the first time, release tools to help Kansas schools in their transition to using universal educational content standards, known as the Common Core, as the basis for instruction. In October, CETE will release new formative assessment tools that target selected mathematics concepts and skills described in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). These tools contain 350 new formative test items developed by CETE for grades 3 through high school. CETE also expects to include English language arts items in the formative assessment tools by the end of the 2011-2012 school year.

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Feb 15, 2011 - Recent Arrival date

Aug 22, 2011 - Submission of TEST records to KIDS opens

Sept 21, 2011 - Entry on or after this date, AYP participation only
Sept 26, 2011 - Test window opens: First Interim Window

Jan 6 - Preslug deadline for TEST records to KIDS: KELPA
Jan 13 - Test window closes: Second Interim Window
Jan 16 - Test window opens: Third Interim Window
Jan 20 - Fall test window closes: OTL reading, math, science, hist/gov't

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