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State Assessment Accommodations

  • PPT
  • Recording

Resources

  • Accommodations Crosswalk
  • CMAS and CoAlt Procedures Manual, Section 6.0: Administrative Considerations, Accessibility Features, and Accommodations
  • CMAS Extended Time Accommodations Table

Speech-to-Text (STT)

  • STT and Word Prediction Security Agreement Supplement

Unique Accommodation Request (UAR) Documents

ACCESS - UARs due by December 1

  • Scribe for Writing Domain
    • Guidance
    • Form*

  • ACCESS Special Accommodation Request** - special accommodations may be available to a limited number of students who meet specific criteria to access one or more domains.
    • Extended testing time within a school day
    • Extended time of a domain over multiple days
    • Other non-standard accommodations

CMAS - UARs due by December 15

  • Scribe for Constructed Response (ELA/CSLA)
    • Guidance
    • Form*
  • Calculation Device on Non-Calculator Sections (Math)
    • Guidance
    • Form*
  • District-approved Math Charts and Counters (Math)
    • Guidance
    • Form

  • CMAS Special Accommodation Request** - special accommodations may be available to a limited number of students who meet specific criteria to access one or more content areas
    • Non-standard accommodations

 

*Do not email completed UAR forms, supporting data, and spreadsheets to CDE. DACs send UAR files to CDE through Syncplicity. Notify sachdeva_a@cde.state.co.us when all of the district's UAR files are posted for review.

**Contact Arti Sachdeva for more information if you believe you have a student who may need a special accommodation.

 

Contact Arti Sachdeva with questions about state assessment accommodations.

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