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Dynamic Learning Maps® Alternate Assessment

We provide an instructionally relevant assessment and report assessment results to help guide instruction.

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Test Updates

October 5, 2023

The following information is about compatible OS platforms to use for Kite® Student Portal.  

October 2, 2023

Users have five attempts to login before their Kite® Educator Portal account is locked.

Previously, after the fifth failed login attempt, a user could select the Forgot Password link to reset their password.

DLM News

November 14, 2023

Tennessee has joined the Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) alternate assessment as the seventh instructionally embedded state. With the addition of Tennessee, DLM alternate assessments serve students in 22 states. Tennessee students will take DLM assessments for English language arts and mathematics. District test coordinators and district facilitators have been trained, and the DLM Required Test Administrator Training course is open.

July 24, 2023

At the close of the spring 2023 testing window, students had taken more than 2 million DLM testlets.

The DLM Alternate Assessment System is a technology-based assessment system designed for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The assessment is delivered in grades 3–8 and high school across 21 states.

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High Expectations for Student Success

This video outlines four keys to academic success for students with significant cognitive disabilities and highlights a few postsecondary opportunities for students taking the DLM alternate assessment. The contents of the video were developed from an ATLAS study on how DLM academic achievement standards prepare students to pursue postsecondary opportunities (pdf).

This video outlines four keys to academic success for students with significant cognitive disabilities and highlights a few postsecondary opportunities for students taking the DLM alternate assessment. The contents of the video were developed from an ATLAS study on how DLM academic achievement standards prepare students to pursue postsecondary opportunities (pdf).

Parents: Learn more about how to build high expectations for your child’s life after high school in A Future of Opportunity (pdf).