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NCEO Pre-conference NCEO Pre-conference ClinicClinic

Under the Big Top!Accommodating Assessments for ALL

Students


Pre-Clinic Tasks1. Please fill out your nametag:

•Your JOB TITLE•Your NAME•A CIRCUS JOB

2. The table that creates the best balloon creature wins a prize! Work as a team.

NCEO

Director of NCEO

Martha Thurlow

Trapeze Artist

Example


Clinic OverviewClinic OverviewRing 1: Developing

accommodations policy

Ring 2: Accommodations policy implementation

Ring 3: Looking at accommodations data

Finale: Wrap-up and evaluations


What teachers in the field say…

When my students are tested it is with an adult they do not know and in an unfamiliar environment.



Special Education students are scattered since testing was determined by the specific period of the day.



Most of the time teachers do not follow the accommodations provided on the IEPs of the students.



The hardest thing is getting the general ed teachers to understand that the accommodations are mandatory and not a “suggestion.”


What teachers in the field say…Given the diversity and volume of students and the increasing limitations of staff resources it’s difficult to provide fully individualized accommodations because we have to test in large groups.



The proper way to implement an accommodation is not explained to the proctors.



Because of changes in procedures or laws, …there is uncertainty.



I am deeply concerned that decisions about modifications and accommodations are being made by people who…have never met the child.



It becomes very frustrating when students with disabilities are not allowed accommodations that will level the playing field.



I feel that I could use further training in this area.


Ring One

Developing Accommodations

Policy


What we know…

• EPRRI Study• 67% of Special Ed. teachers unable

to identify read-aloud or calculator accommodation as standard or non-standard

• 34% of teachers did not know what happened to students’ scores with a non-standard accommodation


What we know…

During statewide testing:“School personnel were frequently

unprepared for and unable to handle the logistics of providing partial participation or individual accommodations.”

(Shriner & DeStefano, 2003)


What we know…

• Test accommodations provided not always linked to instructional accommodations.

• Accommodations decision making not made on the individual student level

(DeStefano, Shriner, & Lloyd, 2001)


What we know…

• Teachers do not always make decisions about ELL accommodations based on research

• ELL accommodations given often related to logistical practicality

(Maihoff, 2004)


What we know…

• English language learners may not use a blanket accommodation because– They are unfamiliar with it– They don’t think it will help– They are not literate in their first-

language(Anderson, et al., 2000; Liu, et al., 1999)


Problem

How do we design systems so that

better accommodation

decisions are made and we don’t feel like

we are working without a net on the

day of testing?


Policies

Procedures

Training Materials

Alignment


Consistency

Special Education

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Policies

Procedures

Training Materials

Assessment

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Policies

Procedures

Training Materials

Curriculum & Instruction

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Policies

Procedures

Training Materials


Ring Two

Training materials


How to Choose, Administer, and Evaluate

Accommodations for Instruction and

AssessmentIN 5,

YES, ONLY 5 *EASY* STEPS!

TA DA!!!!*(well, maybe not THAT easy)


This Training Package is Brought to You By:

State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards


Here are the 5 steps:

1. Expect students to meet grade level academic content standards

2. Learn about accommodations for instruction and assessment

3. Choose accommodations with students

4. Administer assessment accommodations

5. Evaluate and improve accommodations use


Ring Three

AccommodationsData and Evaluation


Thank you!

Please fill out the orange evaluation

form

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