The Arizona Department of Education Testing Accommodations Guidelines have been updated for the 2008-2009 school year.
Key Sections of this document include:
- Accommodations Overview
- Description of Universal and Standard Accommodations
- Determining if a Student Needs an Accommodation
- Testing Accommodations Available to All Students, such as preferential seating, special lighting, and repeating instructions
- Definition of a Student with a Disability
- Testing Accommodations Available to Special Education Students, include testing with more breaks and at a different time of day, using amplification equipment, and writing answers directly into the test booklet. Non-standard (or alternate) testing accommodations are no longer permitted for AIMS or TerraNova tests. Accommodations no longer allowed include the use of a scribe for writing, read aloud for reading, the use of a calculator or other manipulatives for mathematics.
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