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USBE clarifies allowable accommodations and alternate Acadience assessments for students with significant disabilities
Summary
USBE special education assessment staff reviewed which accommodations are allowed on Acadience reading and math, restrictions on read-aloud and extended time for reading probes, and procedures for early literacy and early mathematics alternate assessments.
Utah State Board of Education special education assessment staff reviewed allowable accommodations for Acadience reading and math and explained alternate-assessment procedures for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities during a training webinar.
Tracy Gulley, USBE special education assessment specialist, said accommodations must “reduce or eliminate the effect of that student's disability” without altering what the assessment measures. She reiterated that accommodations for testing must be determined by a student’s IEP, Section 504 plan or English-language team and that some common classroom accommodations are treated as universal resources…
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