There are accommodations that you can make for a student before, during, or after a test that is given. You also need to make sure that when you are grading a child with special needs that you do not put zeros on their report card, help them to become better and strengthen skills. It is so important to have portfolios for the children because you are able to really see how the child works and the ways that you can help them learn new skills.
Chapter 11 EVALUATING STUDENTS LEARNING
How Can Portfolio
Assessments Benefit
Students with Special
Needs?
You may have to make
accommodations when
using portfolios with
students with disabilities,
particularly in selecting
and evaluating portfolio
pieces.
Portfolios can be very helpful
for teachers working with
students with disabilities.
How Can Performance-
Based Assessment Benefit
Students with Special Needs?
Students with disabilities
also may have particular
difficulty making the
connection between
school tasks and tasks
in the real world.
Using performance-based
tests also are not subject
to the same time constraints
as traditional tests.
How Can Accommodations
in Report-Card Grading Be
Made for Students with
Special Needs?
LEGALITIES OF
INDIVIDUALIZED
GRADING
Individualizing grading
is legal for students with
disabilities as long as the
modifications that
comprise them appear on
studnets' IEPs.
USING INDIVIDUALIZED
GRADING WITH STUDENTS
WITH DISABILITIES
Basing All or Part
of the Grade on
Progress on IEP
Objectives
Grading on the basis
of progress on IEP
objectives would have
been appropriate.
5. IMPORVES COMMUNICATION
AMONG PARENTS, STUDENTS,
AND TEACHERS ABOUT
GRADING IN THE GENERAL
EDUCATION CLASSROOM.
4. ELIMINATES THE
REDUNDANCY OF
REPORTING GRADES
SEPARATELY FROM
PROGRESS ON IEP
OBJECTIVES.
3. ENSURES THAT A STUDENT'S
GRADE REFLECTS PROGRESS
ON SKILLS THAT HAVE BEEN
IDENTIFIED AS MOST
IMPORTANT FOR THEM BY THE
TEAM .
2. INFORMS STUDENTS,
PARENTS, AND TEACHERS
WHICH OBJECTIVES ARE
IMPORTANT AND HOW
SUPPORTS CAN BE
PROVIDED.
1. ALLOWS THE TEAM TO
CONSIDER HOW AND
WHEN IEP OBJECTIVES
CAN BE ADDRESSED IN
THE GENERAL EDUCATION
CLASSROOM.
Using Standards-
Based Grades
In standard-based
grading, the IEP,
team first reviews
grade-level standards
to determine whether
an accommodation or
modification is needed.
GRADING PRACTICES
THAT BENEFITS ALL
STUDNETS
Grading practices that
benefit all of your
students include using
differentiated report
cards, avoiding grades
of zero, and reporting
students progress
more frequently.
How Can Accommodations
Be Made for Students with
Special Needs When Giving
Classroom Tests?
ACCOMMODATIONS
AFTER THE TEST
You also may need to
use alternative test-
grading criteria, and
using alternatives to
traditional letters and
numbers.
ACCOMMONDATIONS
DURING THE TEST
If changes in the test
construction are intended
for a whole, class, they can
be incorporated into the
original test file before
printing.
ACCOMMODATIONS
BEFORE THE TEST
You can do a number of
things before a test
to help students
with disabilities.
6. REVIEW your answer by
checking that all parts of
the question have been
answered and edit your
essay.
5. ENGINEER your answer by
including an introductory
sentence and detailed
sentences about each of the
main ideas in your outline.
4. WORK in detail by adding
important details to the
outline that you plan to
include in your essay.
3. SET up an outline listing
your main ideas for the
essay question.
2. NOTICE the requirements
of the question. Mark each
and change the question
into your own words.
1. ANALYZE the action words
in question by reading the
question carefully and
underlining the key words.
