Assessment Accommodations Objectives

Assessment Accommodations Objectives

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Objectives

• Provides extra time to read written text.
• Provides extra time to write responses.
• Provides extra time to use certainequipment.
• Helps students with short attention spansstay on task.

Scheduling: changes in when testingoccurs.

Objectives

• Coordinates the assessment with theeffects of medication.
• Helps students who have low frustrationtolerance.

Setting: changes in the place where an assessment is given.

Objectives

• Helps students who have difficultyfocusing attention in a group setting.
• Supports other classmates who may be distracted by the accommodation.

Presentation: changes in how anassessment is given to a student.

Objectives

• Supports students with sensory needs.
• Supports students who have difficultyreading or understanding directions.

Response: changes in how a studentresponds to an assessment.

Objectives

• Meets needs related to physical andsensory disabilities that limit the student'sability to respond.
• Helps students who have memory,sequencing, directionality, alignment,organization, and other problems that mayinterfere with successful performance ontests.

Excerpted from Assessment Accommodations Toolkit.