Modified Alternate Assessments: Design Strategies and Experimental Results

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Modified Alternate Assessments Design Strategies
and Experimental Results

• Item Modification Strategies and Item
  Presentation
• National Conference on Student Assessment
• June 17,2008

Porter W. Palmer Discovery
Education Assessment
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Reading

• Comprehension, Meaning, Content, Reading
  Comprehension, Analyze Literature, Analyze
  Informational Texts (Comprehension)
• Decoding, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development,
  Word Study (Vocabulary)

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Item Modification Strategies

• Removed least effective distracter
• Simplified language
• Added graphic support
• Increased white space
• Added voice over
• Mathematics (directions and items)
• Reading (directions and stems that contained no
  content)

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Original Item 2
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Original Item 2
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Modified Item 2
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Modified Reading Support Item 2
Script Read the following passage and then answer the next 6 questions. (Pause) This question asks, Based on this passage, we could predict that the narrator........"
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Original Item 40
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Original Item 40
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Modified Item 40
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Modified Reading Support Item 40
Script Read the following passage and then answer the question.
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Mathematics Focus

• Numbers and Operations, Number Sense, Number
  Theory, Numbers, Numbers and Computation
  (Numbers)
• Data and Probability, Probability and Statistics,
  Data Analysis (Data)

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Original Item 38
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Original Item 38
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Modified Item 38
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Modified Reading Support Item 38
Script Mr. White is buying a car. He will make a down payment of 1,735.00. He needs to get exactly 1,735.00 from the bank. The largest bills that he can get from the bank are 100 bills.At most, how many hundred dollar bills will he receive?