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- Title: Extended Time As a Testing Accommodation: Its Effects and Perceived Consequences.
- Author : Exceptional Children
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 242 KB
Description
A primary strategy for including many students with disabilities in statewide accountability systems is to provide them with accommodations on large-scale, standardized tests. Typically, teachers provide students with multiple accommodations as needed; one of the most frequently used accommodations is extended time. Extended or extra time is often needed when assistance is given to students, and it is frequently used as part of a package of accommodations teachers provide to students with disabilities (Schulte, Elliott, & Kratochwill, 2000). It has been observed that time and speed of response are constructs that rarely, if ever, appear in the state or district content standards that large-scale assessments are designed to measure. Time is actually more of a test management issue than a construct to be measured in learners (Elliott, Braden, & White, 2001). Nevertheless, the amount of time allowed to respond to questions on a test is highly important to most test takers. Thus, the goal of this study was to conduct an experimental analysis of the effects of an extended or extra time accommodation on the test performance of students with varying skill levels in mathematics. We considered the effects and consequences of this accommodation from both validity and students' psychological perspectives. ACCOMMODATIONS AND TEST SCORE VALIDITY