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An error occurred while saving the comment Mike L. Miller supported this idea ·
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An error occurred while saving the comment Many students with reading challenges are extremely adept with receptive or productive language or both. The optimal speed for listening is highly variable strong receptive language abilities... and the slow default pace of the reader can actually be a barrier to comprehension. I'm not as certain about the importance of pitch (or sex?), and I worry about anxious students avoiding the testing by fiddling with such things if they have too many options. But speed adjustability definitely feels critical!
I was able to look over a student's shoulder this testing session and saw, to my amazement, that the student was not at all limited by their own inattentiveness or indecisiveness or anything like that. The pace of the TTS reader was the issue. This student takes four class periods to complete the test, completing 7-12 questions each 45 minutes, and I watched their cursor in constant motion (meaning the TTS reader is reading) for the entire period they were testing. The longest I saw it stop for was about 10 seconds while the student chose an answer after it finished reading the last answer choice for a question. The test needs to be shorter and/or offer estimated scores for students who don't finish, and the TTS reader needs to offer variable speeds.