Standard Accomodations

Setting/Administration

  • Small group or individual testing
  • Home/hospital setting
  • Special lighting
  • Adaptive furniture
  • Noise buffers
  • Carrels
  • Special seating
  • Soft, calming music to minimize distractions
  • Freedom of movement during individual testing

Response

  • Visual Aids (graph paper, templates, rulers)
  • Use of masks, overlays or markers to maintain place
  • Special pencils, pen, pencil grip
  • Auditory Aids
  • Augmentative assistive, or adaptive technology (text-talk converter, tape recorder, Braille writer, communication devices) contact ISBE
  • Computer/word processing equipment (spell check, thesaurus and grammar check must be off)
  • Consume the test (Student marks answer in test and teacher transfers to scantron sheet)
  • Use of scribe (student must indicate punctuation and spell all key words)
  • Use of devices or equipment to secure paper to desk

Presentation

  • Large Print
  • Repeating/simplifying directions
  • Re-reading directions for each subtest
  • Highlighted directions
  • Reading of assessment (except reading test)
  • Visual aids (magnifers, templates)
  • Audio amplification equipment
  • Calculator/talking calculator
  • Audio recordings (except decoding and reading comprehension)
  • Abacus for VI students
  • Use of acetate colored shield to reduce glare

Time/Scheduling

  • Breaks between subtests
  • Time of day of test
  • Frequent breaks within a subtest
  • Extended time


Links

IDEA partnership - journals

Bridges4Kids

Special Needs Ontario Window (SNOW)

Project Participate

Teacher Tap

ACT Test Accommodations for Students with Disabilities

Inclusion

Identifying Accomodations for Inclusion

Intervention Central Ideas

Assessing Special Education Students

National Center on Educational Outcomes - Accommodations

New York Test Access and Accommodations Guidebook