This report updates and summarizes what is known from research on the effects of test
accommodations for students with disabilities and also provides direction to the design of …

US public schools are responsible for educating large numbers of English language
learners and students with disabilities. This book considers policies for including students …

Accessibility and accommodations in assessments now are seen as critical elements of an
appropriately designed and implemented assessment of student achievement. The inclusion …

Assessment accommodations emerged during the 1990s as the avenue to access for
students with disabilities so that they could participate in national, state, and district …

This paper focuses on the use of accommodations by students with disabilities in large-scale
assessment programs. The paper is divided into three sections. The first section summarizes …

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects and consequences of using
testing accommodations, including reading aloud test content, on a standardized reading …

This study focused on the use and effect of testing accommodations on the scores of
students with and without disabilities on equivalent forms of a mathematics test used in …

Students with learning disabilities are increasingly included in state accountability systems.
The purpose of this study was to investigate disability-based differential item functioning …

The most frequent requests for accommodations made by students with learning disabilities
at the postsecondary level are for the provision of testing accommodations. Yet, to date …

Differential item/test functioning (DIF/DTF) are routine procedures to detect item/test
unfairness as an explanation for group performance difference. However, unequal sample …