Bolt, S., & Bielinski, J. (2002, April). The effects of the read aloud accommodation on math test items [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), New Orleans, LA, United States.
Bolt, S., & Bielinski, J. (2002, April). The effects of the read aloud accommodation on math test items [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), New Orleans, LA, United States.
Summary
Accommodation
The test was read aloud (read-aloud) to students.
Participants
One thousand randomly selected students without disabilities, 930 students with reading disabilities not receiving the accommodation, and 1083 students with reading disabilities receiving the accommodation participated in the study. All students were in 4th grade.
Dependent Variable
Item-level analyses were conducted on multiple choice math items from the Missouri Assessment Program.
Findings
The read aloud accommodation did not appear to improve score comparability for students with reading disabilities when compared to students without disabilities. More items displaying differential item functioning (DIF) were identified for those who received the accommodation than for those who did not receive the accommodation.