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Personalized Alternate Assessment Portfolio (PAAP)

 

09-10_paap_logo Designed specifically for students with significant cognitive disabilities, the Personalized Alternate Assessment Portfolio (PAAP) is the alternate to Maine’s required State assessments (the New England Common Assessment Program[NECAP], the Maine High School Assessment [MHSA], and the PSAT/NMSQT).  The PAAP is a fully implemented academic assessment that provides the basis for achievement and accountability reporting.  

 

The PAAP measures individual student progress towards the Maine Learning Results – the standards which identify what all Maine students, including those with unique learning needs, are expected to know and be able to do. Scores are reported for accountability purposes under No Child Left Behind in grades 2-7 through the NECAP or the PAAP, and through the MHSA or the PAAP during their third year of high school. PSAT/NMSQT participation is required for 10th and 11th grade students to inform teaching and learning. Resulting scores are not reported for accountability. The PAAP also serves as the alternate for that assessment as noted above.

Students taking the PAAP provide evidence of their progress through tasks that demonstrate academic progress towards the common content standards, but measure steps that are backed down developmentally from the levels at which their grade level peers are measured.

Explore links on this page to learn more about alternate assessment in Maine.

 

What's New:

 

2009-2010 PAAP Training Workshops

If you attended one of the November '09 PAAP training sessions and would like to take the online evaluation, click here.

 

 

Maine's Alternate Assessment Seeks Educators for Item Review/Bias Committees

Be part of a list of Maine educators that would like to participate in future Item Review Committees or in Bias Committees. Previous experience with the PAAP is not required. Participants are selected based on randomly based on the content area being reviewed.

Click here for more information.

Click here to sign up.

 

 

The 2009-2010 PAAP Alternate Grade Level Expectations (AGLEs) are now available.

AGLEs provide a common basis for the planning and assessment of standards-related instruction and assessment in a system that allows students to work on the AGLEs/Indicators, LoC descriptors, and tasks best suited to their individual needs. All Tasks within the Task Bank are aligned with the Maine AGLEs.

Click here for more information, or to view/download the 2009-2010 Maine AGLEs.

 

 

IMPORTANT UPDATE: 2009-2010 Changes to Maine’s Personalized Alternate Assessment Portfolio (PAAP)

Maine has joined with three other New England states in producing a common yearly assessment for the general education population – the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) in reading, mathematics and writing. We will continue with the current MEA program in science and the MHSA program.

Click here to learn what this means for the alternate assessment program.

 

 

PAAP Task Tryout

The Maine Department of Education and Measured Progress are looking for educators who have been trained in the PAAP process to participate in the PAAP Task Tryout. Participating teachers will try out draft Tasks in Reading, Writing, and Mathematics currently in the development process for use in 2009–10 administration year.

Teachers that want to contribute to the PAAP process by taking part in the PAAP Task Tryout are asked to complete a registration form using the link below. Due to changes in the Alternate Assessment Grade Level Expectations (AGLEs), the link to that document has been taken down from our website. It has been brought to our attention that some of you who are interested in participating are having difficulty registering for the Task Tryout, as the AGLEs are no longer available. We encourage you to complete the registration form and send it in, omitting the student information that you are unable to provide, due to the Alternate Assessment Standards being unavailable at this time. As the AGLEs become available for use, we will get them to you to complete the student information section. We apologize for any confusion this has caused and we hope that more of you will sign up! We really need your expertise!

For more information, or to sign-up, click here.

 

 

The PAAP Task Bank is currently closed...

We are in the process of developing new tasks, aligned to the 2009-2010 PAAP Standards.  Once these materials are finalized and field tested, they will be posted in the Task Bank. Look for new PAAP tasks in December, 2009.

 

 

Updated 11/14/09 - pb

 

The PAAP ListServe

The PAAP ListServe has been established to help provide improved communications related to the Personalized Alternate Assessment Portfolio, accommodations, instruction for students with significant cognitive disabilities, and other associated issues. Through this online service, we will be able to disseminate information in a timely manner to all subscribers. Information might include, but will not necessarily be limited to, links to pertinent Web sites, supplementary training materials, responses to questions of general interest that are submitted by subscribers, and changes in Federal law or rules that impact alternate assessment. This is a free service provided by the Maine Department of Education, and requires no subscription renewal. Subscribe today! Connect to the PAAP ListServe.

 

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