Assessment Accommodations Objectives
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Timing: changes in the length of testing.
Objectives
- Provides extra time to read written text.
- Provides extra time to write responses.
- Provides extra time to use certain equipment.
- Helps students with short attention spans stay on task.
Scheduling: changes in when testing occurs.
Objectives
- Coordinates the assessment with the effects of medication.
- Helps students who have low frustration tolerance.
Setting: changes in the place where an assessment is given.
Objectives
- Helps students who have difficulty focusing attention in a group setting.
- Supports other classmates who may be distracted by the accommodation.
Presentation: changes in how an
assessment is given to a student.
Objectives
- Supports students with sensory needs.
- Supports students who have difficulty reading or understanding directions.
Response: changes in how a student
responds to an assessment.
Objectives
- Meets needs related to physical and sensory disabilities that limit the student's ability to respond.
- Helps students who have memory, sequencing, directionality, alignment, organization, and other problems that may interfere with successful performance on tests.
Excerpted from Assessment Accommodations Toolkit.
Provided in partnership with The Council for Exceptional Children.
