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The Kentucky Alternate Assessment was developed in 1990 as a result of the Reform Act of 1990 to provide schools and programs with a valid and reliable means of assessing the instruction provided to students with moderate and significant disabilities (i.e., for the less than 1% of the total student population for whom traditional assessments would be an inappropriate measure of progress). As the decision to include a student for participation in Alternate Assessment must be made by knowledgeable individuals through an Admissions and Release Committee (ARC) process, training of those individuals is critical.
1% Participation
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires Kentucky to ensure that the total number of students assessed in each subject using the Kentucky alternate assessment does not exceed 1.0% of the total number of all students participating in the statewide assessment – the Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress (K-PREP). States that anticipate exceeding 1.0% participation in the alternate assessment must submit a waiver request to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) 90 days before the beginning of the alternate assessment testing window. Kentucky has routinely requested and received a one-year extended waiver from the U.S. Department of Education regarding the 1.0% cap on participation in the alternate assessments aligned with alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS).
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