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Expanding Access

Expanding Access. Accessibility Features and Accommodations for Students with Disabilities in PARCC Assessments. In Brief. 2014-2015 school year Computer-based PARCC state assessments will be implemented Performance-Based, Midyear, End of Year Mathematics and English language arts/literacy

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Expanding Access

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  1. Expanding Access Accessibility Features and Accommodations for Students with Disabilities in PARCC Assessments

  2. In Brief • 2014-2015 school year • Computer-based PARCC state assessments will be implemented • Performance-Based, Midyear, End of Year • Mathematics and English language arts/literacy • PARCC has embedded accessibility features for ALL students • Other accessibility features may be provided for individual students as needed • PARCC also has identified accommodations that students with disabilities and students who are English learners may require

  3. PARCC Accessibility Features and Accommodations Manual To support educators in selecting, providing, and evaluating accessibility features and accommodations. (59 pages) www.parcconline.org

  4. Helpful Resources A Teacher’s Guide A Parent’s Guide www.parcconline.org

  5. promoting student access • Applying principles of universal design for accessible assessments to allow participation of the widest possible range of students • Appropriate tools are used by all students to address their individual learning needs, and accommodations are provided to eligible students (including students with disabilities, English learners, and English learners with disabilities) • Accommodations and features used on PARCC assessments are generally consistent with those used in daily instruction. Provide ALL students with equal opportunities to demonstrate what they have learned.

  6. Accessibility Features • Tools or preferences that are either built into the assessment system or provided externally by test administrators • Can be used by ANY student taking the PARCC assessments • Since the accessibility features are intended for all students, they are not classified as accommodations. • Students should be exposed to these features prior to testing, and should have the opportunity to select and practice using them.

  7. Examples of accessibility features for all students Pages 22- 23 of Manual

  8. A closer look

  9. Administrative considerations for ALL students Page 24 of manual

  10. Helping Students with Disabilities Show What They Know and Are Able to Do • Unless a student’s IEP team determines that the student will participate in an alternate assessment, he or she will participate in the new PARCC assessments in English language arts/literacy (ELA/L) and mathematics • The majority of students in Ohio who have an IEP will participate in the new PARCC computer-delivered assessments • PARCC allows for a paper-and pencil version if a student’s IEP or Section 504 plan requires it as an accommodation • For students who are unable to take a computer-delivered assessment due to a disability. List of accommodations available for students who take the paper-pencil form will be included in an appendix, to be released soon.

  11. Table of Contents

  12. Four distinct groups of students may receive accommodations on parcc assessments • Students with disabilities who have an Individualized Education Program (IEP) • Students with a Section 504 plan • Students who are English learners; and • Students who are English learners and with disabilities who have an IEP or 504 plan.

  13. Accommodations • For PARCC assessments, accommodations are adjustments to the testing situation, test format, or test administration that provide equitable access during assessments for students with disabilities and students who are English learners. • The administration of an assessment should not be the first time an accommodation is introduced to the student.

  14. Accommodations Pages 25- 35 of Manual

  15. Presentation Accommodations

  16. Response Accommodations

  17. Timing and scheduling accommodations

  18. Setting considerations • Universal Design! • Some students with disabilities will require small group or individual testing due to other accommodations they use on PARCC assessments (e.g., interpreter, human reader for the paper-based administration of the assessment, etc.) • Students with physical disabilities may need a more accessible location, more space, specific room conditions, or special equipment.

  19. reminders • Test accommodations must be listed in the IEP, 504 plan, or documented for an English learner and MUST be provided. • The administration of an assessment should not be the first time an accommodation is introduced to the student.

  20. Questions • Please feel free to contact: • laurie.langenfeld@email.sparcc.org • Laurie Langenfeld, ST9 Consultant, Special Education and School Improvement • elaine.barkan@email.sparcc.org • Elaine Barkan, Stark ESC Consultant, Curriculum, Instruction, Gifted, PARCC • dana.weber@email.sparcc.org • Dana Weber, Stark ESC Consultant, ELL, Gifted

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