NCEO Pre-conference Clinic

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NCEO Pre-conference Clinic

• Under
• the Big Top!
• Accommodating Assessments for ALL Students

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• Pre-Clinic Tasks
• Please fill out your nametag
• Your JOB TITLE
• Your NAME
• A CIRCUS JOB
• 2. The table that creates the best balloon
  creature wins a prize! Work as a team.

Example
NCEO Director of NCEO Martha Thurlow Trapeze
Artist
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Clinic Overview

• Ring 1 Developing accommodations policy
• Ring 2 Accommodations policy implementation
• Ring 3 Looking at accommodations data
• Finale Wrap-up and evaluations

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What teachers in the field say
When my students are tested it is with an adult
they do not know and in an unfamiliar environment.
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What teachers in the field say
Special Education students are scattered since
testing was determined by the specific period of
the day.
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What teachers in the field say
Most of the time teachers do not follow the
accommodations provided on the IEPs of the
students.
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What teachers in the field say
The hardest thing is getting the general ed
teachers to understand that the accommodations
are mandatory and not a suggestion.
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What teachers in the field say
Given the diversity and volume of students and
the increasing limitations of staff resources
its difficult to provide fully individualized
accommodations because we have to test in large
groups.
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What teachers in the field say
The proper way to implement an accommodation is
not explained to the proctors.
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What teachers in the field say
Because of changes in procedures or laws,
there is uncertainty.
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What teachers in the field say
I am deeply concerned that decisions about
modifications and accommodations are being made
by people whohave never met the child.
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What teachers in the field say
It becomes very frustrating when students with
disabilities are not allowed accommodations that
will level the playing field.
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What teachers in the field say
I feel that I could use further training in
this area.
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Ring One

• Developing Accommodations
• Policy

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What we know

• EPRRI Study
• 67 of Special Ed. teachers unable to identify
  read-aloud or calculator accommodation as
  standard or non-standard
• 34 of teachers did not know what happened to
  students scores with a non-standard
  accommodation

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What we know

• During statewide testing
• School personnel were frequently unprepared for
  and unable to handle the logistics of providing
  partial participation or individual
  accommodations.
• (Shriner DeStefano, 2003)

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What we know

• Test accommodations provided not always linked to
  instructional accommodations.
• Accommodations decision making not made on the
  individual student level
• (DeStefano, Shriner, Lloyd, 2001)

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What we know

• Teachers do not always make decisions about ELL
  accommodations based on research
• ELL accommodations given often related to
  logistical practicality
• (Maihoff, 2004)

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What we know

• English language learners may not use a blanket
  accommodation because
• They are unfamiliar with it
• They dont think it will help
• They are not literate in their first-language
• (Anderson, et al., 2000 Liu, et al., 1999)

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Problem

• How do we design systems so that better
  accommodation decisions are made and we dont
  feel like we are working without a net on the day
  of testing?

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Alignment
Policies Procedures Training Materials
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Consistency
Special Education -------------------- Policies Pr
ocedures Training Materials
Assessment -------------------- Policies Procedure
s Training Materials
Curriculum Instruction -------------------- Poli
cies Procedures Training Materials
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Ring Two

• Training
• materials

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How to Choose, Administer, and Evaluate
Accommodations for Instruction and Assessment

• IN 5,
• YES, ONLY 5
• EASY STEPS!
• TA DA!!!!
• (well, maybe not THAT easy)

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This Training Package is Brought to You By

• State Collaborative on Assessment and Student
  Standards

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Here are the 5 steps

1. Expect students to meet grade level academic
   content standards
2. Learn about accommodations for instruction and
   assessment
3. Choose accommodations with students
4. Administer assessment accommodations
5. Evaluate and improve accommodations use

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Ring Three

• Accommodations
• Data and
• Evaluation

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Thank you!

• Please fill out the orange evaluation
• form