DMSELPA Policies and Procedures

Policy – Category 2000 (Administration)

BP 2004 – State and District Assessment Programs

Pursuant to Education Code § 60800 , all LEAs in California are required to administer the PFT annually to all children in grades five, seven, and nine. Children in grades five, seven, and nine are required to take the PFT, whether or not they are enrolled in a physical education class or participate in a block schedule. These include children who are enrolled in LEAs such as elementary, high, and unified school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools. Charter LEAs must also test all children in alternate programs, including, but not limited to, continuation schools, independent study, community day schools, county community schools, and nonpublic schools. Children who are physically unable to take the entire test battery are to be given as much of the test as his or her condition will permit ( Education Code § 60800; Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations § 1041 ). The PFT provides information that can be used by 1) students to assess and plan personal fitness programs, 2) teachers to design the curriculum for physical education programs, and 3) parents to understand their child’s fitness levels. This program also provides results that are used to monitor changes in the physical fitness of California students.

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Guidance for Making Support(s) Decisions

Statewide assessments have the following purpose: 1) to show how much a child has learned, 2) to reveal how successfully a school has educated its students, and 3) to help guide instructional improvement strategies. Since instructional and policy decisions are based on data from standards-based assessments, children with disabilities need to be included to the maximum extent possible. The following guidance offers information about the major assessment programs in California and specific information on how to provide test accommodations when needed.

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Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP)

The DRDP is the assessment component of the CDE Desired Results (DR) system. In 2000, the DR system was established within the CDE’s Child Development Division (CDD) to improve the quality of programs and services provided to young children, from early infancy through school age, who are enrolled in the thousands of center-based early care and education programs, before and after school programs, and family childcare home education network programs funded by CDD across California. The DRDP assessment is required twice per year for every child in all of these CDD-funded programs. The purpose of the DRDP is to inform and support the curricular decisions and program improvement decisions made by teachers and program staff, and to inform and support the policy decisions made by stakeholders in early childhood at the state and local levels.

DRDP is a system of authentic assessment for individual children. The teacher who knows the child best uses the broad range of DRDP observational protocols to record the

BP 2004 – State and District Assessment Programs

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Desert Mountain Special Education Local Plan Area (DMSELPA) (rev. 09/18)

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