Testing Accommodations Attached to Student Record
Currently a student's testing accommodations have to be entered for each testing session. Accommodations also have to be re-entered within the same testing session if the student is assigned one test, (say the reading test), finishes the test, and then is assigned a different test (the Math test). We have so many students with accommodations in our system that it is easy to miss assigning their accommodations because we have to do and redo it so many times.
The desired system would allow an admin or SpEd staff (or anyone) to go into the system and assign accommodations directly to the student so that any time that student is added to or joins any testing session, their accommodations are pre-set and ready to go. Test administrators/ facilitators won't have to worry about checking every kids' needs every time they start a new testing session. These settings would stay in place as long as the student is active at the school. But can always be updated or modified as IEP/504, etc. change.
This would be better for kids and better for teachers. And therefore result in more accurate data.
Aaron Hansen
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Mrs. Avigayil Shaffren commented
Currently, the way accommodations are set up is by session, rather then by test or even student.
I am proposing several changes to this system:
1) Allow a student to have accommodations for certain tests associated specifically with the student so that they will automatically receive them when a test is set up for that student
2) Instead of accomodations following the SESSION, they should follow the STUDENT, the same as the test does. If a student starts a test in one session and finishes in another session it is highly likely the second proctor may forget to turn back on accomodations
3) a way to turn accommodations on in middle of testing in the event that they were mistakenly not turned on. This would prevent the student from having to completely log out and log back in which is highly disruptive to the testing environment -
Kayla Conley commented
I would like accomidations to be entered when students are rostered instead of multiple times per semester everytime a teacher gives an assessment. We have privacy concerns with student accomidations and it is a huge indertaking to enter TTS for students grades 6-10 multiple times per year.
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Marya Madsen commented
Great idea
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Krista Herling commented
This would be ideal! Right now if you switch a student to a different test in the same testing session and you forget to add their accommodations, you can't do it without making them stop, adding them, and then letting the student back in to the test. Having them already there would be a huge burden off teachers who are proctoring and don't know all the ins and outs of the testing system.
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Abbie Estep commented
Each testing time (Spring, Winter, Fall) someone must put in accommodations two times, generally taking 6-8 hours for two people to complete. This is done each testing time.