Assessment: MTASData :

The Minnesota Test of Academic Skills (MTAS) is Minnesota’s alternate assessment in reading and mathematics for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The MTAS serves several purposes:

• It meets No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements to provide an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards that are aligned with grade level academic standards.
• It promotes access to the general education curriculum for students with significant cognitive disabilities, as required by NCLB and the Individuals with Disabilities Education ACT (IDEA).
• It provides a tool for educators to measure student progress on academic standards in reading and mathematics.

For each assessment file the “all student group” is filtered at 9 to protect student privacy. The 'filtered' column indicates if the results have been suppressed. In these cases, the average score and counts within each proficiency level will be empty. MTAS data are available in Excel and tab delimited formats. Tab delimited files provide detailed school and district information including demographics of test takers. Excel files show only summary information for a school.