NCEO - Technical Report 64 - Rules for Audio Representation of Science Items on a Statewide Assessment: Results of a Comparative Study

2012

In this study, we investigated an online auditory feature of an assessment, designed to provide students with challenges with print reading with content information. In an effort to evaluate the impact of how content is presented in auditory fashion, NimbleTools and NCEO examined three approaches to "scripting" or creating audio representations of items. We found that students with disabilities' mean scores were .13 higher on items in which tables were read automatically than when they were not. Mean scores for students with disabilities were .21 higher for items in which chemical equations were read as letters than when items did not have audio presentation, and mean scores were .05 higher when units of measures were read in tables than tables that did not have audio presentation. None of these findings were statistically significant, and student preference for auditory scripting only sometimes aligned with achievement.

Reports and monographs

Professionals, Policymakers

Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting)

www.nceo.info

N/A