Authors: Deitra Gibson, Frances B. Haeberli, Todd A. Glover, Elizabeth A. Witter

July 2003, 29 pp.

Abstract: Testing accommodations used in students’ individualized education programs (IEPs) or recommended by classroom teachers were investigated. Three domains of testing accommodations are examined:

• accommodations recommended through the IEP process,
• accommodations recommended by the teacher, and
• accommodations that were actually provided in the testing sessions.

The study explores factors that may influence the implementation of recommended testing accommodations. The Assessment Accommodations Checklist (AAC) was used to translate the IEP process from diverse school districts into a common framework. A three-category system developed by CTB/McGraw-Hill is used to characterize potential threats to validity posed by each of the recommended and provided accommodations. This paper discusses frequently recommended and used accommodations in terms of the CTB/McGraw-Hill categories and outlines directions for future research.

Keywords: provided accommodations, recommended accommodations, taxonomy

Read the full working paper: The Use of Recommended and Provided Testing Accommodations (PDF)