§ 11518. Definitions.
5 CA ADC § 11518Barclays Official California Code of RegulationsEffective: January 1, 2023
Effective: January 1, 2023
5 CCR § 11518
§ 11518. Definitions.
The following definitions apply to the ELPAC:
(a) “Accommodations” means resources documented in a pupil's individualized education program (IEP) or Section 504 Plan that an eligible pupil regularly uses in the classroom for instruction and/or assessment(s) and that are 1) either utilized in the assessment environment or 2) consist of changes in procedures or materials that increase equitable access to the assessment. Accommodations may not fundamentally alter the comparability of test scores.
(e) “Assessment management system” means the test operations management system that is a set of web applications that manage the registration of pupils for tests, machine or hand scoring of test items, integration of item scores into an overall test score, and delivery of scores to the data warehouse.
(i) “Designated supports” are resources that an eligible pupil regularly uses in the classroom for instruction and/or assessment(s) and that are available for use by any pupil for whom a need has been indicated, prior to assessment administration, by an educator or a team of educators (with parent/guardian and pupil input, as appropriate) or specified in the pupil's IEP or Section 504 Plan.
(l) “ELPAC test examiner” is an employee or contractor of an local educational agency (LEA) or nonpublic school (NPS) who has electronically agreed to an ELPAC Test Security Affidavit, who is proficient in English and has complete command of pronunciation, intonation, and fluency, and who certifies completion of training in the administration of the ELPAC.
(t) “Local educational agency (LEA)” means an elementary, high school, and unified school district, county office of education, any charter school that for assessment purposes does not elect to be part of the school district or county office of education that granted the charter, and any charter school chartered by the SBE.
(z) “Personally identifiable information” includes a pupil's name and/or any other direct personal identifiers, and indirect identifiers, such as the pupil's address and personal characteristics, and other information that makes a pupil's identity traceable through the use of a single or multiple data source(s), including publicly available information.
(ad) “Pupil eligible for the initial assessment” is: (1) a pupil whose primary or native language is a language other than English as determined by the survey conducted pursuant to section 11518.5(a), or who is identified for administration of the initial ELPAC assessment pursuant to section 11518.20(a); (2) who has not previously been classified as an English learner (EL) by a California public school; and (3) who has no record of results from an administration of the California English Language Development Test, or the ELPAC initial or summative assessment.
(ag) “Pupils with the most significant cognitive disabilities” are pupils with a disability or disabilities, as defined under title 20 United States Code section 1401(3), that significantly impact(s) cognitive functioning and adaptive behavior and who require extensive, direct individualized instruction and substantial supports to achieve measurement on academic standards, provided that:
(3) For purposes of this definition, “adaptive behavior” means behavior essential for someone to live independently and to function safely across three domains of daily life skills: conceptual (e.g., language, functional academics, self-direction, money management, and time concepts); social (e.g., interpersonal skills, responsibility, self-esteem, wariness/naïveté, follow rules, etiquette, and social problem solving); and practical (e.g., activities of daily living, occupational skills, safety, healthcare, and travel).
(ai) “Registration system” means the mechanism that provides administrators with the tools to manage users and pupils participating in the computer-based ELPAC. The system uses a role-specific design to restrict access to certain tasks based on the user's designated role as well as to manage pupils' default test settings, designated supports, and accommodations.
(al) “Scribe” is an employee or contractor of an LEA or NPS which is responsible to implement a pupil's IEP, who electronically agrees to an ELPAC Test Security Affidavit, and completes training to transcribe a pupil's responses to the format required by the ELPAC assessment(s). A parent, guardian, or sibling of a pupil is not eligible to be that pupil's scribe.
(at) “Translator” is a person who has been assigned to translate the test directions into the pupil's primary language defined in section 11518(aa), who electronically agrees to an ELPAC Test Security Affidavit, as identified in section 11518.50, and who has received training specifically designed for preparation to assist the test examiner in the administration of the assessments pursuant to Education Code section 60810. A pupil's parent, guardian, or sibling is not eligible to be the pupil's translator. A translator must be:
Credits
Note: Authority cited: Section 33031, Education Code. Reference: Sections 306, 313, 56034, 56345 and 60810, Education Code; 20 U.S.C. Section 1401; 29 U.S.C. Section 794; and 34 C.F.R. Section 200.6.
History
1. New section filed 6-5-2017; operative 10-1-2017 (Register 2017, No. 23).
2. Amendment of subsections (c) and (f), new subsections (h), (r) and (s), repealer of subsection (ae), subsection relettering and amendment of newly designated subsections (l), (q), (af) and (ah) filed 8-3-2018 as an emergency; operative 8-3-2018 (Register 2018, No. 31). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 1-30-2019 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
3. Certificate of Compliance as to 8-3-2018 order transmitted to OAL 11-16-2018 and filed 12-31-2018 (Register 2019, No. 1).
4. Amendment filed 8-1-2019 as an emergency; operative 8-1-2019 (Register 2019, No. 31). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 1-28-2020 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
5. Amendment refiled 1-17-2020 as an emergency; operative 1-29-2020 (Register 2020, No. 3). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 4-28-2020 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
6. Certificate of Compliance as to 1-17-2020 order including amendment of subsection (aj)(1) transmitted to OAL 12-12-2019 and filed 1-27-2020; Certificate of Compliance operative 1-30-2020 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(2); amendments operative 1-30-2020 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2020, No. 5).
7. Amendment of subsections (b) and (h), repealer of subsections (n)-(o), (aa), and (ap), new subsection (aj), subsection relettering, amendment of newly designated subsections (p), (w)-(x) and (ak) and amendment of Note filed 10-31-2022; operative 1-1-2023 (Register 2022, No. 44).
This database is current through 4/26/24 Register 2024, No. 17.
Cal. Admin. Code tit. 5, § 11518, 5 CA ADC § 11518
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