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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

Individual Student Score Reports
May 14, 2026

The Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) program provides Individual Student Score Reports for students who completed the DLM alternate assessment during the 2025–2026 school year. Score reports communicate achievement within grade-level content standards to educators, parents, and others.

Field Testing
April 9, 2026

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DLM Highlights

Dynamic Learning Maps: Past and Present
June 4, 2026

As we close out the 2025–2026 school year, we are happy to share some exciting news about the exponential growth of the Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) assessment. During our first operational year in 2014–2015, we had a total of 749,900 testlets administered with eight states testing in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics. As we approach the end of this year’s testing window, we are proud to announce that we have more than tripled the DLM alternate assessment’s…

Upcoming DLM Compass 2026 Event
March 26, 2026

Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) staff are excited to announce the first DLM Compass 2026 event, taking place July 14–17, 2026, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At DLM Compass 2026, educators will connect with colleagues, explore science inquiry routines, examine how these routines can be integrated with English language arts (ELA) and mathematics, and leave with applicable instructional plans and ready-to-use resources. DLM states may send up to five educators to participate in…

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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).

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