FILE: JS

Testing Participation

All students attending Auburn City schools are required to participate in the Student Assessment Program.  An individual school must have at least ninety-five percent participation on all state required criterion or norm-referenced tests.  The five-percent allowance is for absentees not test exemptions.  LEP students, during their first academic year of enrollment in U.S. schools, will not be required to participate in state assessments except for any math subtest and an assessment of English language proficiency.  However, LEP first year students may be included in assessments depending upon their English proficiency. During and beyond their second academic year of enrollment in U.S. schools, they will be required to participate in all state assessments. Special education students whose Individual Education Plans indicate that an alternative assessment is appropriate will not participate in one or more state assessments.  These are the students with the most severe cognitive disabilities.

The State of Alabama participates in the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP).  NAEP administers reading and math assessments for Grades 4 and 8 every other year.  Districts that receive Title I funds must ensure that selected schools participate in the assessment.

When individual intellectual evaluation is required as part of the eligibility battery of assessments for special education placement, the evaluation shall be conducted only by persons approved in accordance with state guidelines.  Testing and evaluations shall utilize the individual intellectual report format specified in Rules of the Alabama State Board of Education, State Department of Education, Special Education Services.

Confidentiality of test results will be assured and information will be released only in compliance with the Education Amendment of 1974 (P.L. 93-380) known as the Buckley Amendment.

 ADOPTED:  October 12, 2004

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