Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Testing Accommodations for English Language
Learners-Katalina Perez
- Purpose of Testing Accommodations for
English Language Learners
- Testing accommodations promote equity and
validity in assessment
- For English Language Learners, accomodations provide an
opportunity to show their skill despite language limitations
- Reducing or eliminating construct-irrelevant variance
increases test validity
- Language proficiency should not be evaluated
unless it is the objetive of the test
- Testing Accommodations objectives
- They are intended to benefit examinees that require them while having little
to no impact on the performance of students who do not need them
- Testing accommodations require further research
- Testing Accommodations
- Changes in the assessment environment or
process that do not fundamentally alter
what the assessment measures
- Testing Modifications
- Changes in the assessment environment or
process that may fundamentally alter what
the assessment measures
- Identifying Students Eligible for
Accommodations
- There are no uniform guidelines or policies at the federal
level regarding the use of accommodations
- For students with disabilities, eligibility for accommodations is part
of a student’s Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
- ELLs who regularly use accommodations in the classroom are usually
eligible to use the same accommodations in testing situations
- Created by Katalina Perez
- Identifying Accommodations
- Direct linguistic
support
accommodations
- involve adjustments to
the language of the test
- E.g. providing a translated or adapted version of
the test in the student’s native language or
providing test directions orally in the student’s
native language
- Indirect linguistic
support
accommodations
- involve adjustments to the conditions under
which a test is administered
- E.g. extended testing time or having the
test administered individually or in small
groups
- When Accommodations Should Be Used
- There are no standards, just factors
- Students’ proficiency in English as well as in
their native language
- Academic subjects being
assessed
- Student’s familiarity with the
accommodations
- The language in which the student
receives instruction, and the range of
available accommodations for
examinees