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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

DLM Team Members to Share Assessment Expertise at International Conference
August 11, 2026

Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) team members will join assessment professionals from around the world at the 51st Annual International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA) Conference in Toronto, Canada, September 27 – October 2. 

Michael Muenks and Lynda Lupp will host an exhibition table where they will answer questions and talk with educators from around the world about DLM’s resources and educational approaches. The exhibit provides an opportunity…

DLM to Host Item Writing Event in October
August 11, 2026

Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) is bringing educators together this fall to help develop assessment content for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities.

The 2026 DLM Item Writing event will take place October 26–30 in Kansas City, Missouri. Participating educators will draw on their classroom experience and content expertise to develop assessment items for DLM alternate assessments.

Item writing is an important part of the DLM assessment…

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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).