Training on Accessibility Features and Accommodations

for Computer-basedand Paper-based Testing

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Administrative Considerations

School based teams (including IEP, 504, or EL teams as appropriate) may determine if any student requires any of the following test administration considerations: – Small group testing – Frequent breaks – Time of day – Separate or alternate location – Specified area or seating – Adaptive and specialized equipment or furniture

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Accessibility Features and Accommodations

Features for All Students

Accessibility Features

Identified in advance

AccommodationsIEP/504/EL

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Types of Accessibility Features and Accommodations

Features for All Students

Accessibility Features

Identified in advance

AccommodationsIEP/504/EL

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Accessibility Features for All Students

Accessibility Features for All StudentsComputer-Based Testing Paper-Based TestingAudio Amplification Auditory Aids

Blank Paper Blank PaperEliminate Answer Choices Visual Aids/Organizers

External Spell Check External Spell Check DeviceFlag Items for Review Visual Aids/Organizers

General Administration Directions Clarified

General Administration Directions Clarified

General Administration Directions Read Aloud and Repeated as Needed

General Administration Directions Read Aloud and Repeated as Needed

Headphones or Noise Buffers Headphones or Noise BuffersHighlight Tool Highlighter

Line Reader Tool/Ruler Line Reader (Straight Edge)

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Accessibility Features for All Students

Accessibility Features for All StudentsComputer-Based Testing Paper-Based Testing

Magnification/Enlargement Device Magnifying Glass or Enlargement DeviceNotePad Scratch Paper

Pop-Up Glossary Glossary in FootnotesRedirect Student to Test Redirect Student to Test

Writing Tools Bold, Italicize, Underline, Bullet with Writing Implement (Pencil)

Ruler (cm. or in.) Ruler (cm. and/or in.)Calculator (Math and Science) Calculator sections (not Gr. 3-5)

Calculator (Math and Science)Calculator sections (not Gr. 3-5)

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Accessibility Features Identified in Advance

Accessibility Features (for all Grades/Courses)

Answer Masking

Color Contrast*

Human Reader or Human Signerfor the Mathematics Assessments

Text-to-Speech or ASL Video for the Mathematics Assessments (CBT only)

Text-to-Speech for Science and Social Studies

Note: These accessibility features must be identified in advance and enabled in PearsonAccessnext (PNP)/PearsonAccess (SDU) for the computer-based administration, and prepared in advance for paper-based testing.

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Accessibility Features Identified in Advance

Accessibility Features(for all Grades/Courses) Administration Guidelines

Text-to-Speech for the Mathematics, Science and Social Studies Assessments*

For computer-based testing, the test is read aloud to the student using embedded text-to-speech software. Student must be tested in a separate setting if unable to wear headphones.

Three text-to-speech speeds are available and can be adjusted during testing. Female voice cannot be changed.

* Accessibility Feature for Math, Science and Social Studies only, it is an accommodation for ELA

New

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Accommodationsfor Students

• Accommodations for Students with Disabilities (SWD) – Presentation Accommodations– Response Accommodations– Timing and Scheduling Accommodations

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Students With Disabilities – Presentation Accommodations

Presentation Accommodations for Students with Disabilities

Assistive Technology

Screen Reader Version for Mathematics*

Refreshable Braille Display with Screen Reader Version for ELA/Literacy *

Hard Copy Braille Edition*

Tactile Graphics

Large Print Edition*

Paper-Based Edition

Closed-Captioning of Multimedia for ELA/Literacy Assessments

* Transcription Guidelines are found in Appendix C of the Test Coordinator Manual

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Students With Disabilities – Presentation Accommodations

Presentation Accommodations for Students with Disabilities (continued)

Text-to-Speech for the ELA/Literacy Assessments, including items, response options, and passages*

Screen Reader Version for ELA/Literacy, including items, response options, and passages*

ASL Video for the ELA/Literacy Assessments, including items, response options, and passages*

Human Reader/Human Signer for the ELA/Literacy Assessments,including items, response options, and passages*

ASL Video for the Mathematics Assessments

Human Signer for Test Directions

Student Reads Assessment Aloud to Themselves

*In CO, Unique Accommodation form required

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• Teacher Read Directions are no longer available. • For Math, Science, and Social Studies, students may use Text-

to-Speech.• ELA measures reading as well as literacy. Therefore, Text-to-

Speech or Human Reader for ELA is limited to a very small number of students whose requests for a unique accommodation have been approved .

Text-to-Speech

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<SAY> I cannot help you answer any test questions. You may or may not know the answers to all of the questions. Answer the best you can.

Test Administrators may assist individual students by re-reading scripted directions from the manual

• Redirection script: [Student name], please continue working.

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Students With Disabilities – Response Accommodations

Response Accommodations for Students with Disabilities

Assistive Technology

Braille Note-taker

Braille Writer

Calculation Device and Mathematics Tools

(on Calculator Sections of Mathematics Assessments)

Calculation Device and Mathematics Tools

(on Non-Calculator Sections of Mathematics Assessments*)

Monitor Test Response * More information is available in the Accessibility Features and

Accommodations Manual for selection implementation and notation.

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Response Accommodations for Students with Disabilities (continued)ELA/Literacy Selected Response Speech-to-Text

ELA/Literacy Selected Response Human Scribe

ELA/Literacy Selected Response Human Signer

ELA/Literacy Selected Response External Assistive Technology Device

ELA/Literacy Constructed Response Speech-to-Text*

ELA/Literacy Constructed Response Human Scribe*

ELA/Literacy Constructed Response Human Signer*

ELA/Literacy Constructed Response Assistive Technology Device*

Students With Disabilities – Response Accommodations

*In CO, Unique Accommodation form required

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Response Accommodations for Students with Disabilities (continued)

Response Speech-to-Text

Response Human Scribe

Response Human Signer

Response Assistive Technology Device

Word Prediction External Device

Monitor Test Response

Students With Disabilities – Response Accommodations

* More information is available in the Accessibility Features and Accommodations Manual for selection implementation and notation.

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Accommodation Availability Administration Guidelines

Extended Time All Content Areas

Students have until the end of the school day to complete a single test unit administered during the prescribed testing window. It is recommended to test students with the extended time accommodation in a separate setting to minimize distractions to other students, and to schedule these students for testing in the morning to allow adequate time for completion of a test unit by the end of the school day.*

*Strongly suggest that districts provide additional guidance. Students should not work on an assessment unit all day.

Time-and-a-half is included in the Science and Social Studies section testing time. Students who need extended time accommodations beyond time-and-a-half should take the assessment in a separate setting.

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Students With Disabilities – Timing and Scheduling Accommodations

Accommodations for English Learners

Accommodations for English Learners

Extended Time

Word-to-Word Dictionary (English/Native Language)

Mathematics Response Speech-to-Text Mathematics Response Human Scribe

General Administration Directions Read Aloud and Repeated in Student’s Native Language (by test administrator)

General Administration Directions Clarified in Student’s Native Language (by test administrator)

Online Translation of the Mathematics, Science and Social Studies Assessmentin Spanish (or other translated languages as needed)

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Accommodations for English Learners

Accommodations for English Learners (Continued)

Paper-Based Edition of the Mathematics Assessment in Spanish (or other translated languages as needed)

Large Print Edition of the Mathematics Assessmentsin Spanish (or other translated languages as needed)

Text-to-Speech for the Mathematics Assessmentsin Spanish (or other translated language as needed)

Human Reader for the Mathematics Assessments in Spanish (or other translated language as needed)

Spanish Audio (Science and Social Studies)

Spanish Oral Script (Online and Paper)

Spanish Source Books (Social Studies only)

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• The PARCC Accommodations manual indicates a 1 year waiver. – CDE does not have this waiver.– Colorado law requires all students to test.

ELL in U.S.Less than One Year

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• A paper/pencil Spanish Language Arts test is being developed for grades 3 and 4.

• Additional information will be provided at the end of the training.

Spanish Language Arts Assessment

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Transcription Guidelines

Transcription Paper-based and Computer-based:

• At least two persons must be present during any transcription of student responses.

• The student’s responses must be transcribed verbatim into the Test Booklet or TestNav.– Note for braille transcription: Only a braille certified Test Administrator

may transcribe student’s responses.

• CBT: Submit the test once all items have been transcribed. • After transcription, shred any responses made from an

assistive technology device.

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Transcription Guidelines

Transcription on Computer-based Tests:– Student responses to constructed response should be

entered into TestNav by the Test Administrator before the next Unit/Section.

– Student will respond to questions on their assistive device.– Student will Exit the Unit/Section, student should not

Submit the current Unit/Section. – Resume the student’s test in

PearsonAccessnext/PearsonAccess.– Log-in as the student and transcribe the responses.– Submit responses for the current Unit/Section only. – Student resumes testing in the next Unit/Section.

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Personal Needs Profile (PNP)

What is a Personal Needs Profile?

The Personal Needs Profile (PNP) is used to gather information regarding a student’s testing condition, materials, or accessibility features and accommodations that are needed to take a PARCC ELA/L and Math assessment.

PNP is not available for Science and Social Studies assessment.

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Unique Accommodations

Unique accommodations must be approved by CDE. A unique accommodation request is required for:• Oral presentation of the English language arts assessment

(e.g., text-to-speech, ASL, human reader)• Calculation device, including math manipulatives, on the non-

calculator portion of the mathematics assessment• Scribing, including speech-to-text, on the constructed

response portions of the English language arts assessment

For new students, the form is available on the CDE website at the following location: http://www.cde.state.co.us/assessment/newassess-parcc.

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Emergency Accommodation

• A case where a student needs a new accommodation immediately due to unforeseen circumstances. – Cases could include students who have a recently-fractured limb (e.g., arm,

wrist, or shoulder); whose only pair of eyeglasses have broken; or a student returning from a serious or prolonged illness or injury.

• Emergency accommodation form must be completed and maintained in the district.

• Contact CDE if a student requires a paper-based administration.

• Refer to Appendix G of the PARCC Accessibility Features and Accommodations Manual, online: Use of an Emergency Accommodation on a PARCC Assessment. Also use this form for Science and Social Studies.

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PARCC: Student Accommodation Refusal Form

• If a student refuses an accommodation, the school should document in writing that the student refused the accommodation.

• Refer to Appendix H of the PARCC Accessibility Features and Accommodations Manual, online: Student Accommodation Refusal Form.

• The accommodation must be offered and remain available to the student during testing.

• School Test Coordinators should send a copy of the form to parents when a student refuses an accommodation documented in an IEP, 504 Plan, or EL Plan.

• Form must be maintained in the students record.

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Thank you for your time and attention!

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