NCEO Synthesis Reports: Access Assistants for State Assessments: A Study of State Guidelines for Scribes, Readers, and Sign Language Interpreters (#58)
Part of the NCEO Synthesis Reports series.
- Author(s)
- Ann T Clapper, Amanda Morse, Sandra Thompson, Martha L Thurlow
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This year 2005 report describes a national study on state guidelines provided for human access assistants that help students who use either a scribe, reader or sign language interpreter accommodation on state assessments. Overall, 22 states had guidelines for one or more of the three access assistants that were the focus of the study. Variations across state guidelines extended from breadth and depth to format and ease of access. Further, 14 states with guidelines also had described the qualifications or characteristics required of these access assistants. The report concludes with a description of several challenges to the development of state guidelines for access assistants, and recommendations for meeting those challenges.
Details
- Date
- December 2005
- Type
- Report
- Edition
- Number 58
- Publisher
- National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
Topics
- Educational accountability and assessment
- Accessibility & Accommodations
- English Learners with Disabilities
- Specific life stage
- Adolescents and young adults
- Children