GSEG Pacific Assessment Consortium (PAC6) Projects

 

Overall PAC6 Implementation Plan

 

On behalf of the Pacific Assessment Consortium (PAC6), the six Pacific Basin jurisdictions of American Samoa, CNMI, FSM, Guam, Marshall Islands, and Palau, Guam CEDDERS received three IDEA General Supervision Enhancement Grants (GSEGs) to facilitate the improvement of each entity’s capacity to report accurately participation and performance data of students with disabilities in each jurisdiction’s State system of assessments, including alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards. With the overall PAC6 outcome to improve each entity’s capacity for reporting, the scope of each GSEG award has provided for the continuity in regional and on-site technical assistance support from local, regional, and national experts on special education and large-scale assessment. Given the project period for each GSEG, the following describes the major activities, and focus of the three IDEA GSEGs:

 

GSEG I: PAC6 Planning Project
January 2006-December 2006 with, a no-cost extension through December 2007

 

The completion of individual entity PAC6 Self-Assessment Tool adapted from the 2004 NCLB Peer Review Guidance. The completed tool represents the status of each entity’s system of assessments and serves as the jurisdiction’s plan for improving the reporting of participation and performance data of students with disabilities in the entity’s system of assessments.

 

GSEG II: PAC6 Implementation Projects(1 per entity)
January 2007-December 2007, with a no-cost extension through June 2008

 

To address prioritized “next steps” identified in each entity’s jurisdiction plan, the implementation projects provide for continued technical support in addressing critical revisions to the accommodations guidelines and to facilitate a process to articulate and clarify the linkage of the alternate achievement standards to enrolled grade-level content standards.

 

GSEG III – The PACIFIC Project January 2008

 

To improve local capacity for reporting and analyzing participation and performance data of students with significant cognitive disabilities on alternate assessments based on alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAS) to inform critical changes in assessment, curriculum, and instruction.