Sentences with phrase «given test accommodations»

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IQ tests are now given to help schools determine the kind of academic accommodations children need in school.

By abolishing any stigma that might come with a flagged test, while tightening access to special accommodations, the College Board has given new opportunities to the strategic, while leaving behind the less savvy and less financially well - endowed.

When the College Board announced, in the summer of 2002, that it would stop «flagging» the test scores of students who were given special accommodations for the SAT, the gold standard exam for college admission, disability advocates were thrilled.

For years the College Board had placed a mark alongside the test scores of students who were given special accommodations.

While the SAT scores of the average standard test - taker there did not change much in 2004, those given special accommodations jumped.

Critically, the testing accommodations that are provided to a given student, at the discretion of local administrators, can vary with each administration of the test, thus jeopardizing any longitudinal record of achievement gain or value added.

The rates at which students receive testing accommodations also vary dramatically by zip code, with well - to - do, empowered parents being able to pressure the system into giving their children extra support.

It is the only accommodation that nearly every test - taker would take advantage of if possible (unlike, say, the exams with larger print that are given to visually impaired students).

In Maryland, some students with disabilities are given special accommodations during their state tests that allow a person to read them the questions.

In fact, using administrative data we collected from the MPCP schools, we were able to determine that only one - quarter of the MPCP students judged by their school to have a disability were actually given any accommodation for last year's test.

Of course, given the variation among students with LD, results also showed that some test accommodations that were not valid for students with LD, as a group, were indeed valid for use with specific children with LD.

For this section of the IEP, the case manager should use the assessment data to outline the special education services that should be provided to improve a student's skills, accommodations that should be made to give the student equal opportunities to access the general education curriculum, and modifications or supplementary aids that the student would need for testing or daily classroom activities.

Accommodations do not change the content of instruction, give students an unfair advantage, or change the skills or knowledge that a test measures.

Proponents of the act have succeeded in ensuring that students with special needs are given the same accommodations in high - stakes testing situations as they get in the classroom.

I explained to parents, students, and teachers how having certain accommodations in place, such as extended time on tests, can give people with learning differences a «level playing field,» not an advantage as may seem to think.