P.O.
SUPTS. MEMO NO. 93
April 28, 2006
INFORMATIONAL
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TO: |
Division
Superintendents |
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FROM: |
Patricia I.
Wright Acting
Superintendent of Public Instruction |
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SUBJECT: |
Nominations
for the 2006 Standards of Learning Assessment Review Committees for Special
and Plain English Mathematics Test Forms |
The Division of Assessment and Reporting is accepting nominations
from May 1 to 31, 2006, for participation in the following committees:
1. 2006 Standards of Learning Assessment Special Test Forms Review
Committee, and
2. 2006 Standards of
Learning Assessment Plain English Mathematics Test Forms Review Committees
(four separate committees).
You are invited to identify one distinguished educator in your
division for each of these five committees. All nominees must
submit an application via the new Web-based process,
Assessment Committee Application Processing System (ACAPS). ACAPS is designed
to be a paperless system for the submission and review of assessment
committee applications from educators in
https://eb01.vak12ed.edu/acaps
or visit the Virginia
Department of Educations website at
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Assessment/home.shtml
and
select the ACAPS link.
Descriptions of the committees
The Special Test Forms Review Committee will be responsible for reviewing test items on the Braille,
large-print, and regular audiotape special forms to be used with students who
are visually impaired. Committee
nominees should be educators with expertise in special education and experience
with the administration of Braille, large-print, and regular audiotape special
test forms.
The Plain English Test Forms Review Committees will be responsible for reviewing test
items on Plain English mathematics test forms. The Plain English
mathematics test covers the same content as the regular mathematics test, but
test items have been modified to address issues related to non-native English
speakers who may have been in the United States only a short time and thereby
encounter language barriers. There will be four separate committees to
represent grades 3 and 4, grades 5 and 6, grades 7 and 8, and Algebra I.
Committee nominees should be educators with expertise in limited English
proficiency, experience in the instruction of mathematics (at one or more grade
levels, 3 through 8 or Algebra I) and in-depth knowledge of the Standards of
Learning.
Selection process
Fifteen members will be selected for each committee. Although
committee participation is limited to one representative per school division, a
school division may have multiple representatives serving on each of the five
committees.
All members selected for these committees will be expected to:
serve a one-year term;
sign a Non-Disclosure/Conflict of Interest
Agreement; and
participate in the committee meeting(s) as scheduled by the Virginia
Department of Education (see attachment).
The applicant must provide two professional references in support
of his/her nomination and the division superintendent or designee must approve
the nomination.
Provisions for committee members
Committee members will be provided the following:
reimbursement for meals
and travel expenses in accordance with state travel policy and guidelines;
lodging;
honorarium of $100 per
meeting day for committee members not under contract with a school division at
the time of meeting(s); and
certificate for recertification points.
If you have questions, please
contact Ronald Sutton, assessment specialist, Division of Assessment and
Reporting, at Ronald.Sutton@doe.virginia.gov
or by phone at (804) 225-2913.
Your continued support of this
effort is greatly appreciated.
PIW/SLR/jc
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