Assignment Requirements

• Choose an assessment you have already used with your students and brainstorm ideas for how to adapt the assessment for a student with special needs.
• Select three or more of your ideas for adaptations to the assessment and formulate a rationale for the changes you have made. In particular, focus on how the accommodations will help the student more accurately demonstrate progress toward the intended learning outcomes.
• Be sure to consider one or more ways you will address each of the following: preparing the student before the test, providing support during the test, and communicating results after the test.
• Also consider technologies that might help students “bypass” their disability and more accurately demonstrate their progress toward the outcomes being measured.
With these thoughts in mind, write a report that provides the following:
• A brief description of the original assessment.
• A description of the revised assessment, that includes three or more adaptations for a student with special needs.
• Your rationale for the changes you made to the assessment. In other words, why would a student with special needs benefit from the supports you describe?
• An explanation about how you will address each of the following: preparing the student before the test, providing support during the test, and communicating results after the test.
• A list of any technologies that might help students “bypass” their disability and more accurately demonstrate their progress toward the outcomes being measured.