[SE-Dir] New Accommodation for Smarter Balanced ELA Assessment

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Sarah Drinkwater, Ph.D.
Assistant Superintendent
Office of Learning/Student Services
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March 10, 2015



New Accommodation for Smarter Balanced ELA Assessment
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium voted last Friday (March 6, 2015) to adopt a new non-embedded accommodation for the Smarter Balanced ELA assessment. Effective immediately, the Read Aloud non-embedded accommodation is allowed in grades 3-5 for all ELA reading passages for the 2014-2015 Smarter Balanced summative assessment administration. Please note that embedded text-to-speech is not available for ELA reading passages at grades 3 - 5.

Similar to the accommodation for grades 6 - 8, the Read Aloud non-embedded accommodation is intended for only a limited population of students (estimated to be approximately 1-2% of students with disabilities participating in a general assessment).  For example, a student who is blind and is not yet proficient in Braille). As an accommodation, there must be documented need in a student's IEP or 504 plan.

For a detailed description of the new non-embedded read aloud accommodation for ELA reading passages at grades 3 - 5, as well as information on eligibility, please refer to the Oregon Accessibility Manual<http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/testing/admin/alt/ea/updates/oregonaccessibilitymanual.pdf>, which has been updated to reflect this new accommodation.

Contact Brad Lenhardt at Brad.Lenhardt at state.or.us<mailto:Brad.Lenhardt at state.or.us> if you have additional comments or questions.


Ruby Sandberg, Executive Assistant
Oregon Department of Education
Office of Learning l Student Services
503-947-5738 l FAX: 503-378-5156 l ruby.sandberg at state.or.us<mailto:ruby.sandberg at state.or.us>

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