A Locally Developed Assessment (LDA)

A Locally Developed Assessment is any assessment that has been developed by a local education agency (LEA) using either a purchased test/item bank, teacher-made questions, items from a purchased curriculum, items from an adopted textbook or reference materials, or any other item included on a test administered by an LEA. Sometimes LDAs are also called common assessments or benchmarks. The student data (student responses) from these LDAs must be exported from whatever system that was used to scan and score them and imported into the File Center in OnDataSuite to be analyzed.