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Which Kids Benefit from Read-aloud Accommodations for Arithmetic Assessments

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Which Kids Benefit from Read-aloud Accommodations for Arithmetic Assessments?

In order to ascertain how accurately teachers prescribe read-aloud accommodations for math examinations and to create a profile of kids who benefit from such accommodations, this article details an investigation conducted among special education teachers and students. An achievement test in mathematics was given to elementary and middle school students in eight states, including general and special education. When it came to identifying which pupils might benefit from the accommodation, teachers were no more successful than chance. Pretest reading and math accomplishment results were utilized in supplemental analyses to try and create a profile of kids who preferred one or the other format. Student profiles did not always correspond with the results of accommodations. Research on testing accommodations for children with disabilities is receiving more attention as a result of recent demands to include all students in large-scale testing. Despite this curiosity, opinions on when accommodations are warranted are divided. The verbatim oral explanation of mathematical problems is a frequently employed accommodation for pupils with inadequate reading


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Which Kids Benefit from Read-aloud Accommodations for Arithmetic Assessments by Jeff Palmer - Issuu