Statewide Assessment Accommodations for Students with Disabilities At a Glance Note: This summary does not replace examination of the resources provided on the TEA Website for Accommodations http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/accommodations/staar-telpas/ Accommodation Special Education 504 Other Disability Assessments Additional Information Individual & Small Group Spanish L Modified Description: Specialized setting during statewide testing for a student who is not able to test in a standard classroom setting. TEA Recommends small group be 10 or few students. Examples/Types: Routinely and effectively during instruction and testing. Type 1 Reminder to Stay on Task Projection Spanish L Modified Spanish L Modified Description: Reminders to stay on task during statewide testing beyond what is required in the standard administration procedures. Examples/Types: Visual, verbal, tactile, and auditory reminders Description: Allows for enlarging text, graphics, or the display on a computer screen for a student who has an impairment in vision. Examples/Types: Closed circuit television (CCTV), document camera Amplification Spanish L Modified Description: Reduces the interference of background noise for a student who has difficulty hearing or maintaining focus in large group settings. Examples/Types: Speakers and Frequency modulated (FM) system Manipulating Test Materials Oral/Signed Administration Eligibility: Identified with dyslexia or has evidence of reading difficulties Eligibility: Identified with dyslexia Spanish L Modified Spanish L Modified Description: Allows test administrator to physically manipulate materials and equipment for a student who is unable to do so independently. Eligibility: Routinely and effectively during instruction and testing and a disabling condition that interferes with the physical manipulation of test materials. Examples/Types: Turning test booklet pages, positioning the ruler, using the mouse to navigate an online administration, operating technology Description: Test administrator provides reading support, through speech and/or signing. See specific program eligibility. Examples/Types: Levels of support may include: read parts of the test questions and/or answer choices at student request or all test questions and answer choices throughout the test Math (3 8, Alg. I, Alg, II, and Geometry), Science (5, 8, Bio., Chem., and Physics), Social Studies (8, W. Geo., W. Hist., and US Hist.) Reading; (3 8), Writing: (4 & 7) Prompt only, English I, II, III: Q & A choices and Writing Prompt NOTE: NEVER read aloud the reading selections, revising and editing passages, test questions, or answer choices from writing, or English III Analytical Prompt 2011, Region One Education Service Center, Division of Instructional Support 1 of 5
Spelling Assistance YES YES NO Spanish Modified Description: Provides various types of spelling assistance for a student who has a disability that affects spelling. Eligibility: Routinely, independently and effectively during instruction and testing. The student is capable of organizing and developing ideas and understands the basic function and use of written language conventions (e.g., sentence structures, irregular verbs) but has a disability that is so severe that he or she cannot apply basic spelling rules and/or word patterns (e.g., silent letters, base words with affixes) to written responses. Examples/Types: Frequently misspelled word list, spell check function on a word processor, pocket spellchecker, dictionary, and software: word prediction, text to speech, or speech to text. Math Manipulatives Calculation YES NO NO YES YES NO Spanish L Modified Spanish L Modified Description: Concrete objects or pictures of concrete objects for a student to move and touch in order to visualize abstract concepts. Eligibility: Routinely, independently and effectively during instruction and testing. The student must have a disability that affects memory retrieval, focus or organization and is severe enough to prevent the student from learning and retaining information as effectively as non disabled peers despite multiple opportunities to learn, varied instructional strategies, and high quality instruction OR a student qualifies for special education services with a Visual Impairment (VI). Examples/Types: Real/play money, clocks, base ten blocks, counters, algebra tiles, fraction pieces or geometric figures. Description: Provides an alternate method of computation for a student who is unable to effectively use paper and pencil methods. Eligibility: Routinely, independently and effectively during instruction and testing. The student must have an impairment in vision that necessitates the use of Braille or large print materials OR a disabling condition (e.g., severe fine motor deficits, visual tracking difficulties, difficulty with letter formation) that prevents the student from independently and effectively recording responses in the bubbles or on the lined pages of the answer document despite multiple unsuccessful attempts to indicate responses on a format similar to an answer document. Examples/Types: Abacus or Cranmer modified abacus; Calculators: four function, scientific, graphing, large key, audio graphing Basic Transcribing Spanish L Modified Description: Allows a test administrator to transfer student responses onto an answer document when a student with a disability is unable to accomplish this task independently. Eligibility: Routinely, independently and effectively during instruction and testing AND student must have one of the following: 1) has an impairment in vision, that necessitates the use of braille or large print test materials, OR 2) has a disabling condition that prevents the student from independently and effectively recording responses in the bubbles or on the lined pages of the answer document despite multiple unsuccessful attempts to indicate responses on a format similar to an answer document. Examples/Types: Transcribes ONLY when student writes, circles, or points to responses, OR dictates or signs responses, OR writes response on scratch paper or another workspace or types responses on a word processor, OR uses speech to text software. The test administrator transfers responses onto the answer document. 2011, Region One Education Service Center, Division of Instructional Support 2 of 5
Supplemental Aids YES NO NO Spanish L Modified Description: Paper based resources that assist a student in recalling information. Eligibility: Routinely, independently and effectively during instruction and testing. a disability that affects memory retrieval, focus, or organization that is severe enough to prevent him or her from learning and retaining information as effectively as non disabled peers despite multiple opportunities to learn, varied instructional strategies, and high quality instruction. Examples/Types: All Subjects: Mnemonic, Blank Graphic Organizers Mathematics: Math Charts, Graphics, and Pictorial Models Written Composition: Grammar and Mechanics Rules Science: Graphics (scientific concepts, formal triangles) Social Studies: Graphics (blank maps, dates only timelines) Extra Time (Same Day) Large Print Spanish L Modified Spanish L Modified Description: Allows a student with a disability to have extra time until the end of the school day to complete a statewide assessment. use Optional Test Administration Procedures and Materials, Type 1 or accommodations to address student needs, AND student must have one of the following: 1) has an impairment in vision, 2) identified with dyslexia, 3) student receiving special education services with documentation indicating a lack of word identification skills and/or difficulty reading words in isolation, 4) requires frequent or lengthy breaks due to a behavioral disorder or emotional disability, 5) requires frequent or lengthy breaks due to a physical disability or a medical condition. Description: Provides a student with enlarged test materials when the student has a disabling condition that limits the ability to effectively access test materials in standard print size. Eligibility: Routinely and effectively uses large print materials, including textbooks, worksheets, etc., during instruction and testing, AND the student must have one of the following: 1) has an impairment in vision 2) has a disability that affects student s accuracy in tracking letter to letter, word to word, and/or line to line, 3) a student has a physical disability that necessitates the use of large print. Examples/Types: State provides large print test materials Dictionary YES YES NO Spanish Modified Reading (3 5) Description: Facilitates comprehension of unfamiliar words. Eligibility: Routinely, independently, and effectively uses accommodation during classroom instruction and testing and has a disability that affects memory retrieval and/or decoding skills. Examples/Types: ONLY the following dictionaries: standard/general, dictionary / thesaurus combination, electronic (no Internet access), bilingual, ESL, picture, sign language Braille YES NO NO Spanish Modified Description: provides brailled test materials to a student with a Visual Impairment who is unable to access printed test materials. Eligibility: Receives special education services and a student with a Visual Impairment AND routinely uses braille materials during classroom instruction and testing. Examples/Types: The state provides uncontracted and contracted Braille test materials. 2011, Region One Education Service Center, Division of Instructional Support 3 of 5
Complex Transcribing Spanish Modified Description: Allows test administrator to record onto an answer document a student s dictated or signed responses to the writing prompts when a student with a disability is unable to accomplish this task independently. use Basic Transcribing to address student needs, AND student must have one of the following: 1) has an impairment in vision that necessitates the use of Braille or large print test materials, 2) has a disabling condition that prevents the student from independently and effectively recording responses on the lined pages of the answer document despite multiple unsuccessful attempts to indicate responses on a format similar to an answer document. Examples/Types: Complex Transcribing ONLY when the student dictates or signs responses to the writing prompts for the test administrator to transcribe. Type 3 ARF Required Photocopy YES NO NO Spanish L Modified Description: allows for test materials to be photocopied for a student whose disability prevents the student from effectively using test materials provided by the state. Eligibility: Receives special education services, routinely receives this accommodation during classroom instruction and testing, AND cannot effectively use Optional Test Administration Procedures and Materials, Type 1 or accommodations to address needs, AND student must have one of the following: 1) has an impairment in vision and requires printed materials in a size larger than the state supplied, large print test materials, 2) a physical disability that prevents the students from effectively manipulating test materials printed on both sides of the paper and/or turning the pages in a test booklet, 3) disability that necessitates test materials be presented in a printed format other than a test booklet in order to prevent behavioral outbursts or other severe behaviors that could interfere with the student completing the test. Examples/Types: enlarging the printed test materials to a size larger than the state supplied, large print test materials, photocopying test materials into single sided sheets, photocopying test materials for presentation in smaller portions. Extra Day Spanish L Modified Description: Allows a student with a disability to have an extra day to complete a statewide assessment use Optional Test Administration Procedures and Materials, Type 1 or accommodations AND student must have one of the following: 1) has an impairment in vision including use of Braille test, 2) requires frequent or lengthy breaks due to a behavioral disorder or emotional disability, 3) requires frequent or lengthy breaks due to a physical disability or a medical condition. 2011, Region One Education Service Center, Division of Instructional Support 4 of 5
Type 3 ARF Required Other Spanish L Modified Description: Allows a student with a disability to have an extra day to complete a statewide assessment use Optional Test Administration Procedures and Materials, Type 1 or accommodations AND district testing coordinator has been advised by a member of TEA s Accommodations Task Force that the accommodation fits into the category of Other. Examples/Types: Test administrator outlines and/or darkens charts and graphs for a student with a degenerative visual impairment, student with a physical disability uses two test booklets to reduce fatigue associated with turning pages, test administrator highlights every other line of text in test booklet to aid a student with multiple disabilities in tracking, oral administrations of reading selections for a blind student who does not read Braille. 2011, Region One Education Service Center, Division of Instructional Support 5 of 5