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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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.