There are three categories for accommodations used on standardized tests. The three categories are timing and scheduling accommodations, presentation accommodations, and response accommodations. With timing and scheduling accommodations, students on IEPs can have extended time to complete their assessment. The time in which a test is taken can also be organized differently that traditional tests. Students can also be allowed frequent breaks during their test taking time. The presentation in which the test is given to a student can also be changed. Some students may need differentiation in test presentation due to needing an alternate mode of access; ex. auditory, multi-sensory, visual, or tactile.
A number of adaptions could occur within an examination. This may include the use of a scribe, or increased time limits if writing becomes difficult. We are also able to employ different coloured paper to aid dyslexic learners within exam
Communication and Training: These are to train those who need to help and assist with the test.
The IEP is created by a group of individuals who play an important role in the student’s success. Those that should be involved in the creation of the IEP are the parents of the students, at least one regular education teacher of the student, at least one special education teacher, a representative of the LEA who is able to supervise the plans, someone who is able to interpret evaluation results (may be someone already on the team), any other person who has knowledge about the student, and whenever possible, the student with the disability (Gibb & Dyches, 2016). The evaluation results will be used to decide the child’s eligibility for special education and related services and to make decisions about an appropriate educational program for the child. Once the student is tested and determined eligible for services the IEP must be written.
IEP’s which are individualized educational plan are very important documents, they are used to meet a student’s educational needs. There are certain criteria a student must meet to be eligible for special education services. A team of people work together to create
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The Special Education team for learning disabilities will test the student. These students have shown signs of continuous problems with interventions in place. Psychologist, psychiatrist, and any other testing will be conducted with parental consent have evaluated the student. Parents will be mandated to attend all assessment evaluations and the team shall review the findings for referral back to tier two or upgrade student to tier four for special educational services based on educational or problematic behaviors.
The first article, Predictors of Assessment Accommodations Use for Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing by Cawthon & WurtzBest (2010), is a regression study aimed to explore whether student characteristics, teacher perspectives, and contextual factors predict accommodations use with students who are deaf or hard of hearing (Cawthon & WurtzBest, 2010). The article is very relevant to special education assessment because it discussed implications for assessment policies and practices with students who are deaf or hard of hearing, particularly during an era of accountability reform (NCLB accountability).
The learner must have sufficient time to prepare for an assessment. Learners must have clear instructions, dates, times and be aware of what treatments that they will be doing.
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With high stakes testing, it requires, states to use accommodation and alternative testing in order to allow states not to exclude students with special needs from taking any of the state’s test. Before
4.4 explain how assessment arrangements can be adapted to meet the needs of individual learners
It is made up of four major parts: standards for particular applications, technical standards for test construction and evaluation, professional standards for test use, and standards for administrative procedures. A test that is technically adequate meets the criteria for validity, reliability, and norms. Validity is “the appropriateness, meaningfulness, and usefulness of the specific inferences” that can be made from the test results. (American Psychological Association 9) Validity is the degree to which a test measures what it is intended to measure. Reliability is the extent to which the test results are dependable and consistent. Unrelated to the purpose of the test, errors in measurement can be viewed through inconsistencies in the performance, motivation, or interests of students being tested. Norms can be shown in age or grade equivalence, standard scores, and percentiles. They are generally shown in charts showing the performance groups of students who have taken the test. Norms show the comparison of the performance of new groups of test takers with the samples of students on whom the test was standardized. Goodwin and Driscoll (59-60) note that standardized tests have the following qualities: They provide a “systematic procedure for describing behaviors, whether in terms of numbers or categories.” They have an established format and set materials. Also, they present the same tasks and
All four groups will be taking the psychometric tests in the following order: numerical, verbal, and inductive. The numerical test will examine the subject’s ability to work with numbers, including numerical logic and basic mathematical operations. The verbal exam will consists of questions testing the subject’s knowledge of definitions, word association, and verbal logical processing. The inductive tests will have non-verbal questions consisting of primarily pattern recognition. Each group will progress onto the next test only when the entire group is finished. For groups with headphones, the verbal test will be layered on top of the
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To begin with, TPE 2 consists of different factors in performing the teaching job. First, teacher should demonstrates knowledge of confidentiality provisions and requirements. For this reason, teacher needs to make sure all personal and testing information are confidential. It can only be shared with IEP team who are involved in the student’s education. Second, teacher should demonstrate working knowledge of basic tests and measurement principles. With this in mind, it is essential that the teacher knows how to implement the assessment tool while making sure that the student knows how to follow the instructions. Third, teacher should demonstrate skills in the assessment of students with Moderate/Severe disabilities, collecting and using multiple sources of information to assess student learning. In order to have accurate data collection, teacher should use formal assessments such as Brigance or WIAT III and informal assessment such as San Diego Quick Reading assessment,