MCAS-Alt Manuals and Training Sessions

MCAS-Alt Trainings

• Introduction to the MCAS-Alt Core Concepts: Describes in depth the process of completing an MCAS-Alt for students
  • Part A
    
    • Part A Transcript
  • Part B
    • Part B Transcript
  
  
• MCAS-Alt for new or returning Administrators and Special Education Supervisors
  • Admin Overview Transcript
  
  
• Civics for the MCAS-Alt
  • Civics Transcript
  
  
• ELA Writing for the MCAS-Alt
  • ELA Writing Transcript
  
  
• Science and Technology/Engineering for the MCAS-Alt
  • STE Transcript
  
  
• MCAS-Alt Update: For Educators and Administrators that are Familiar with the MCAS-Alt
  • Update Transcript
  
  

MCAS-Alt Quarterly Updates

• MCAS-Alt Spring Training Flyer

• MCAS-Alt Winter 2024-2025 Update

  • MCAS-Alt Winter Training Flyer

• MCAS-Alt Back-to-School Update

  • MCAS-Alt Fall Training Flyer

Alternate Academic Achievement Standards for the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks (Resource Guide)

The MCAS-Alt will be based on the following versions of the Resource Guide.

Fall 2024

• English Language Arts and Literacy (PreK–Grade 12)
  (incorporating the 2017 ELA and Literacy Standards)

• Mathematics (PreK–Grade 12)
  (incorporating the 2017 Mathematics Standards)

• Science and Technology/Engineering (STE)
  (preK–Grade 8; and High School Biology and Introductory Physics only)
  (incorporating the 2016 STE Standards)

• Civics
  (Grade 8 only)
  (incorporating the 2018 History and Social Science Standards)

Manuals

• 2025 Principal's Manual for MCAS-Alt

• 2025 Educator’s Manual for MCAS-Alt

  • MCAS-Alt Skills Survey

  • MCAS-Alt "Competency Portfolio" Requirements for Students to Earn a Competency Determination (CD)

• Policy on Storage and Destruction of Returned MCAS-Alt Portfolios

MCAS-Alt Forms and Graphs

• 2024 MCAS-Alt Forms and Graphs Web Based-Version

State Training

Last Updated: January 30, 2025