Testing Needs of Diverse Student Subpopulations: Could One Test Accommodation Do the Work?

• In Event: Roundtable Session 46
  In Roundtable Session: Topics on English Language Learners

Abstract

This paper examines accommodation to test content and administration condition with subpopulations of students. Six thousand seven hundred students in grades 3, 5, and 8, from five diverse subpopulations in a Midwest state, participated in the study by taking regular, linguistically modified and read aloud accommodations of a mathematics test. Analyses were carried out at the item, test, and reporting levels. Findings supported the use of test accommodation practices across diverse subpopulations.

Author

• Alvaro J. Arce, Pearson