In recent months, Education Week has published several articles that mention or highlight the Dynamic Learning Maps™ (DLM®) Alternate Assessment project, including a guest blog by Project Director Neal Kingston and a pair of stories on alternate assessment choices, i…
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Alaska Joins Dynamic Learning Maps
Alaska becomes the 16th state to join the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment Consortium, a multi-state initiative developing a computer-based assessment designed to more validly measure what students with significant cognitive disabilities know and can do.
Illinois becomes 15th state to join Dynamic Learning Maps
Illinois has joined the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment Consortium.
Vermont Joins Dynamic Learning Maps
Vermont has joined the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment Consortium.
It joins the DLM Consortium’s 13 other states: Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Local students work with DLM staff in development of assessment system
Work is under way to see how students with significant cognitive disabilities interact with the computer assessment system being developed for them by Dynamic Learning Maps staff at the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation (CETE).
DLM staff member receives Harvard research grant
A Dynamic Learning Maps staff member has received a research grant from Harvard University. Carrie Mark, who is Interim English Language Arts Learning Map Team Lead for the Dynamic Learning Maps project, has received a 2012-2013 Jeanne S. Chall Research Grant to research defining treatment intens…
Staff unveils the world’s largest learning map to the public
The learning map, cornerstone of the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment System (DLM-AAS), was revealed for the first time to the public at a national conference in April 2012.
KU researchers mapping out students’ learning processes
Those working on a project funded by the largest grant in Kansas University history are part of a larger national effort to change the way testing is done at elementary and secondary schools.
Neal Kingston, director of KU’s Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation, leads the $22 mill…
Milestones exceeded on project to create innovative assessment of students with disabilities
Progress has been made one year into a five-year grant awarded in 2010 to the University of Kansas Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation (CETE) by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.
KU receives $22 million grant to develop new assessment system for special education
Researchers at the University of Kansas have received a $22 million grant to develop a new assessment system for special education students in 11 states.