Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) Alternative Portfolio
These templates are in Microsoft Word, version 6.0. The task analysis data sheets (TADS) are in Excel 5.0. If you have these versions or later on the computer you are connecting with, you can save the template to your hard drive, then modify it from there. You may have your browser already defaulted to save any Word documents to your "My Downloads" directory.

Portfolio Planning Forms

1. The TCAP Alt Teacher's Guide in PDF
2. TCAP Alt Portfolio Training from State, PowerPoint presentation, summer 2006
3. English Language Learner Accommodations for TCAP achievement, competency, writing, and Gateway testing
4. Planning Table, for laying out the content of primary, middle, and intermediate school students' portfolios.
   1. Here's another version of the same one, but with wider spacing in case you are handwriting your plan.
5. Planning Table, for laying out the content of high school students' portfolios.
1. Here's another version of the same one, but with wider spacing in case you are handwriting your plan.
6. Tennessee's TCAP Alt Portfolio Table of Contents, for organizing the portfolio
7. Portfolio Validation Signature Page with all adult signatures. Peers may sign this sheet, but their first name or initials are better on the evidence/data collection sheets instead.
8. Portfolio Affidavit teacher's statement of authenticity (new requirement for 07-08)
9. Portfolio Validation for parents to sign and add comments (this separate parent input has been optional since SY 03-04)
10. Letter to the Parents/Guardians explaining how the portfolio assessment process fits in with TCAP assessment
11. Parents Authorization to Use Audio/Video, optional if you don't use pictures or sound
12. Evidence Sheet, revised August 2007
13. Mode of Communication, sample of the mode, adaptations, and statement of inclusion page (this is a teacher-generated document that should be unique to each student but address all three areas)
14. Sample Student Daily Schedule for a single work period of many tasks, a way to show the student's use of the schedule with room for settings, evaluation, and comments
15. Sample Student Weekly Schedule, open-ended, with 5 lines for each day
16. Weekly Schedule, a PDF like the Word file above
17. Update of the TCAP Alt Process for this school year

The 4 graphs Tennessee requires to quantify improvement (or not) over 15 repetitions of an activity, you have to use one of these. The only difference between these and the ones in the teacher's manual is that the manual's page number has been removed (thanks to Andrea Wilson!)