NCEO - Synthesis Report 58 - Access Assistants for State Assessments: A Study of State Guidelines for Scribes, Readers, and Sign Language Interpreters

2011

Over the past few years, states have made greater attempts to define each accommodation and to decide whether the accommodation provided valid test results. During that time, the National Center on Educational Outcomes has recorded accommodations used by states and their definitions and decisions about validity. As NCEO studied accommodations use, they found that there are accommodations that require human assistance in order to administer, but that rarely came with instructions about how they were to be delivered or qualifications of the human assistants. Given the apparent importance of access assistants, NCEO conducted an in-depth analysis on available policies and guidelines on scribes, readers, and sign language interpreters in all 50 states to examine the extent to which guidelines existed for these individuals and the nature of the guidelines.

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http://www.cehd.umn.edu/nceo/onlinepubs/synthesis58.pdf

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