Unit of Student Assessment
The Unit of Student Assessment manages and oversees the development, administration scoring, and analysis of the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP), Colorado Student Assessment Program Alternate (CSAPA), the Colorado English Language Acquisition (CELA), and the administration and analysis of the Colorado ACT (COACT), and the Colorado National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
Links to other resources related to the state system of assessments and accountability are included below for enquiries related to Accountability Measures.
Colorado Law
Many answers to questions related to the large-scale standardized assessment system in Colorado can be found in these links to Colorado statutes:
- Why do we administer these assessments?
- Which content areas are assessed?
- When are the assessments administered?
- Who is required to take the large-scale standardized assessments?
- Do all scores "count" on the state's accountability reports?
- Who is required to take the Colorado ACT?
- Which scores are required to be placed in the students' records?
- Which tests are in Spanish?
- CSAPA
- CELApro Law
CELA
- 2009 Assessment Window
- CELA Placement Test (English Language Acquisition Unit)
- CELA Proficiency Test (Unit of Student Assessment)
- CELA Summary Data
- Assessment Events
CSAP
- 2009 Assessment Window
- Accommodations
- Achievement Levels
- Assessment Events
- Development
- Frameworks and FACT Sheet
- GRT Data Layout
- Item Maps
- Released Items
- Scoring Information
- Training Information
- Tech Resources
CSAPA
- 2009 Assessment Window
- Colorado Student Assessment Program Alternate (CSAPA) (Unit of Student Assessment)
- Assessment Events