Abbreviations for Minnesota Assessments
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| ABE | Adult Based Education - an educational program for adults 16 and over who are not enrolled in school and don't have a HS diploma/HS basic skill equivalency.
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| ABS | Absent - test code
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| ACT | American College Testing - a testing company headquartered in Iowa City, Iowa that publishes the EXPLORER, PLAN, and ACT tests.
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| ALD | Achievement Level Descriptor - a description of what students can typically do when their score falls within 4 achievement levels (Does Not Meet Standards, Partially Meets Standards, Meets Standards, Exceeds Standards)
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| ALT | Alternate Assessment - A test code only for written Composition GRAD and reading, mathematics, and Written Composition BST retests.
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| AMAO | Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives - No child left behind (NCLB) requires limited english proficiency (LEP) students in districts to show progress in language proficiency. The TEAE and MN SOLOM are used to measure that progress.
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| AYP | Adequate Yearly Progress - NCLB requires students in schools and districts to make progress towards being proficient in reading and mathematics by 2014. Schools and districts that don't make AYP face consequences.
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| BST | Basic Skills Test - A set of reading, mathematics, and writing tests introduced in 1996 that students who entered grade 8 in 2004-2005 or earlier must pass in order to be eligible to receive a diploma from a MN public HS.
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| CR | Constructed Response - A science test item where the student is required to write a response that is scored by humans.
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| DAC | District Assessment Coordinator - the person in the district that is responsible for the conduct of statewide assessments; the main communication like between the district and the Research and Assessment Division of MDE and Pearson.
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| DSR | District Students Result file - A large Excel file that contains all student-level data from the assessments, including demographic information, achievement level information and various test scores.
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| EL | English Learner - a general term to describe someone whose primary language is not English.
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| FE | Foreign Exchange - A student from another country who attends a MN HS for one year. These students may take assessments but they won't be included in AYP calculations.
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| NCLB | No Child Left Behind - The federal Law passed in 2002 that requires all states to give reading and mathematics tests to students in grades 3-8, and once in HS. Schols are expected to make AYP toward the goal of all students being proficient in 2014.
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| NTC | New-to-Country - An LEP-identified student who first enrolled in a US school within 12 months of when the accountability tests are administered.
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| PSEO | Post Secondary Education Options
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| REF | Parent Refusal (a test code)
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| SAC | School Assessment Coordinator - the person in the school with variety of responsibilities related to the operation of the statewide assessments in their school.
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| TE | Technology Enhanced - a technology enhanced test item on the online Mathematics MCA or Science MCA where students select one or more points on a graphic, drag and drop a graphic from one location to another, or manipulate a graph.
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| TAR | Test Administration Repot - A form the DAC's fill out to document a variety of special circumstances that occur during a testing window.
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| TEAE | Test of Emerging Academic English - a test given to LEP students that measurs reading and writing language proficiency to comply with the Title III requirement of NCLB.
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| TSN | Test Security Notification - a form used to document the occurence of a serious breach of security.
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| USED | United States Department of Education
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| ESL | English as a Second Language - A general term to describe a program that teaches English to EL students or someone that teaches in that program.
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| GR | Gridded Response - a test item on the Mathematics MCA where students compute the correct answer and enter it in a gridded format.
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| GRAD | Graduation Required Assessment for Diploma - A set of reading, mathematics, and writing tests introduced in 2006-07 that students who entered in grade 8 in 2005 or later must pass in order to be eligible to receive a diploma from a MN public HS.
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| IEP | Individual Education Plan - for special education students.
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| INV | Invalid - a test code
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| ISR | Individual Student Report - A report for parents that gives information about how their child did on a test.
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| LEP | Limited English Proficient - A term used to designate students who come from a home where a language other that english is usually spoken and who lack the necessary english skills to fully participate in classes taught in english.
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| MARSS | Minnesota Automated Reporting Student System - An MDE database system for tracking a variety of student information.
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| MARSS WES | A web edit system for entering and editing data for MARSS.
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| MC | Multiple Choice - A test item where the student selects the correct answer from a set of numbers, usually 4.
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| MCA | MN Comprehensive Assessment - Mathematics, reading, and science tests MN uses to comply with Title I requirement of NCLB.
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| MCA-Modified | MN Comprehensive Assessment-Modified - An alternate assessment based on modified achievement standards for a small group of students whose disability had precluded them from achieving grade-level proficiency.
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| MDE | MN Department of Education
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| ME | Medical Excuse - a test code
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| MN SOLOM | MN Student Oral Language Observation Matrix - A checklist that teachers complete to rate listening and speaking language proficiency of EL students.
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| MTAS | MN Test of Academic Skills - A series of tests given to students with the most significant cognitive disabilities that measures performance on alternate achievement standards in reading, mathematics, and science. Requires students to be eligible.
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| NAEP | National Assessment of Educational Progress - Sometimes called the Nation's Report Card, these tests are given in a sample of districts to measure the performance of MN students on national academic standards.
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