California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 1 - California Department of Education › Chapter 2 - Pupils › Subchapter 3.75 - California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) › Article 1 - General › Section 850 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
For the purposes of these regulations, the following
						terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) "Accommodations" means resources
					 documented in a pupil's individualized education program (IEP) or Section 504
					 Plan which the pupil regularly uses in the classroom for instruction and/or
					 assessments(s) and that are either utilized in the assessment environment or
					 consist of changes in procedures or materials that increase equitable access
					 during the assessment. Accommodations cannot fundamentally alter the
					 comparability of achievement test scores.
(b) "Achievement tests" means any summative
					 standardized test that measures the level of performance that a pupil has
					 achieved on state-adopted content standards.
(c) "Adaptive engine" refers to the mechanism
					 utilized in a computer-adaptive assessment that selects the difficulty of
					 grade-level test questions throughout an assessment based on pupil
					 responses.
(d) "Alternate
					 assessments" are any CAASPP achievement tests as provided in Education Code
					 section
					 60640(k)
					 and the test materials developed to measure the level of performance for pupils
					 with the most significant cognitive disabilities who are unable to take the
					 consortium summative assessments in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics
					 pursuant to Education Code section
					 60640(b)(1)
					 or are unable to take an assessment of science pursuant to Education Code
					 section
					 60640(b)(2),
					 even with resources.
(e)
					 "Assessment management system" means the test operations management system
					 which is a set of web applications that manage the registration of pupils for
					 tests, machine or hand scoring of test items, integration of item scores into
					 an overall test score, and delivery of scores to the data warehouse.
(f) "Assessment technology platform" means
					 the underlying computer systems on which CAASPP applications run. It is
					 comprised of two components, the assessment management system and the test
					 delivery system.
(g) "California
					 Alternate Assessments (CAAs)" are the alternate assessments and corresponding
					 test materials in ELA, mathematics, and science as provided for in Education
					 Code section
					 60640(k)
					 for pupils with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The CAAs are the
					 successor alternate assessments for ELA, mathematics, and science as identified
					 in Education Code section
					 60640(b)(3).
(h) "California Spanish Assessment (CSA)" is
					 the primary language assessment and corresponding test materials in Spanish for
					 Reading Language Arts/Literacy pursuant to Education Code section
					 60640(b)(5)(E)
					 and (j).
(i) "California Science
					 Test (CAST)" is the assessment and corresponding test materials for science
					 pursuant to Education Code section
					 60640(b)(2)(B)
					 that measures the degree to which pupils are achieving the state-adopted
					 standards in science pursuant to former Education Code section
					 60605.85.
(j) "Change of construct" means a
					 modification of the concept or skills being tested that fundamentally alters
					 the meaning and comparability of achievement test scores.
(k) "Data Warehouse" means a comprehensive
					 storehouse of test registrations and results and a system to generate reports
					 on, or extracts of, that data.
(l)
					 "Designated supports" are resources which the pupil regularly uses in the
					 classroom for instruction and/or assessment(s) and that are available for use
					 by any pupil for whom the need has been indicated, prior to the assessment
					 administration, by an educator or a team of educators (with parent/guardian and
					 pupil input as appropriate) or specified in the pupil's IEP or Section 504
					 Plan.
(m) "Instructional supports"
					 are all supports, including those supports documented in a pupil's IEP or
					 Section 504 Plan, that may be used in daily instruction and for assessment(s),
					 including language and physical supports.
(n) "Local educational agency (LEA)" means a
					 county office of education, school district, state special school, or
					 direct-funded charter school as described in Education Code section
					 47651.
					 LEA superintendent, for purposes of these regulations, includes an
					 administrator of a direct-funded charter school.
(o) "Nonpublic schools (NPS)" are nonpublic,
					 nonsectarian schools as set forth in Education Code section
					 56034.
(p) "Operational" means a test administration
					 that produces valid and reliable results which are used for public reporting
					 purposes and for which pupil score reports are required to be issued, pursuant
					 to Education Code sections
					 60640
					 and
					 60641.
					 Operational tests do not include tests still under development, such as pilot
					 or field tests.
(q) "Primary
					 language assessment" means a test as provided in Education Code section
					 60640(b)(5)(E)
					 and (j) and its corresponding test materials in each primary language for which
					 a test is available.
(r) "Pupil"
					 refers to a student enrolled in a California public school.
(s) "Pupils with the most significant
					 cognitive disabilities" means pupils with a disability or disabilities as
					 defined under title
					 20
					 United States Code section
					 1401(3) that significantly
					 impact(s) cognitive functioning and adaptive behavior and who require
					 extensive, direct individualized instruction and substantial supports to
					 achieve measurement on academic standards, provided that:
(1) The identification of a pupil as having a
					 particular disability as defined in IDEA shall not determine whether or not a
					 pupil is a pupil with the most significant cognitive disabilities;
					 and
(2) A pupil with the most
					 significant cognitive disabilities must not be identified as such based solely
					 on the pupil's previous low academic achievement or the pupil's previous need
					 for accommodations to participate in general statewide or local
					 assessments.
(3) For purposes of
					 this definition, "adaptive behavior" means behavior essential for someone to
					 live independently and to function safely across three domains of daily life
					 skills: conceptual (e.g., language, functional academics, self-direction, money
					 management, and time concepts); social (e.g., interpersonal skills,
					 responsibility, self-esteem, wariness/naivete, follow rules, etiquette, and
					 social problem solving); and practical (e.g., activities of daily living,
					 occupational skills, safety, healthcare, and travel).