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Policies, Procedures and Guidelines
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Policies, Procedures and Guidelines

This section contains policies, procedures, and guidelines related to the administration of Minnesota's statewide assessments. The majority of these documents will be of interest to District Assessment Coordinators, but some teachers and parents may also find them useful.

Information on test accommodations for students is available in Chapter 5 of the Procedures Manual for Minnesota Assessments: 2008-2009 below. Also available is The Minnesota Manual of Accommodations for Students with Disabilities in Instruction and Assessment developed by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) with a grant from the Minnesota Department of Education. This manual is for individual education plan (IEP) teams looking at the need for and relationship between accommodations used in instruction and assessment. *View the Manual for Accommodations on the NCEO Website. The NCEO has also developed a Training Guide for effectively using the Minnesota Manual. View the Training Guide on the NCEO Website.

* Links to third-party sites are provided as a service to Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) Website visitors. See our disclaimer regarding these sites in our copyright information linked at the bottom of this page. Links will open in a new browser window. 

How Authorized School Personnel Can Look Up Student Scores on Minnesota Graduation Tests pdf icon 33Kb (6/1/2009)
     Instructions for using Educator Portal to look up student scores on graduation tests.
Optional Assessment Order Worksheets pdf icon 51Kb (12/17/2009) doc icon 254Kb (12/17/2009)
     These worksheets can be used to help DACs gather information when preparing to place orders for accommodations and assessment materials in PearsonAccess. Do not return these worksheets to Pearson or MDE.
Procedures Manual for Minnesota Assessments: 2009-2010 pdf icon 1Mb (1/26/2010) doc icon 5Mb (1/26/2010)
     This 2009-10 manual replaces the 2008-09 manual.
Reciprocity Guidelines for High School Graduation pdf icon 187Kb (8/19/2009)
     A state-by-state listing of tests that are reciprocal with the GRAD tests.
Test Administration Report pdf icon 112Kb (11/2/2009) doc icon 769Kb (11/2/2009)
     Use this form to report situations where something unusual or unexpected happened that could affect the validity of a test result for a student.
Test Security Notification Form pdf icon 119Kb (11/2/2009) doc icon 772Kb (11/2/2009)
     This form is for documenting testing irregularities such as security breaches and misadministrations of a test.
Universal Non-Disclosure Agreement Form pdf icon 18Kb (11/2/2009)
     To be signed by personnel with access to secure MDE test materials such as test booklets and test items from any Minnesota assessment.