Bolt, S. E. (2004, April 13). Using DIF analyses to examine several commonly-held beliefs about testing accommodations for students with disabilities [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Diego, CA, United States. https://nceo.umn.edu/docs/Presentations/NCME04bolt.pdf

Presentation

Bolt, S. E. (2004, April 13). Using DIF analyses to examine several commonly-held beliefs about testing accommodations for students with disabilities [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Diego, CA, United States. https://nceo.umn.edu/docs/Presentations/NCME04bolt.pdf

Tags

Multiple accommodations; Multiple content; Multiple disabilities; No disability

URL

https://nceo.umn.edu/docs/Presentations/NCME04bolt.pdf

Summary

Accommodation

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent of databased support for several commonly held opinions about testing accommodations for students with disabilities.

Participants

The sample was composed of students in an extant dataset from a state’s large-scale assessment data. The number was not specified.

Dependent Variable

A series of DIF analyses were conducted across three statewide achievement tests (state assessment extant data).

Findings

Results provide some support for the commonly held beliefs, although results were not always consistent across datasets. The results also point to the challenge of appropriately assessing the skills and knowledge of students with disabilities using currently available assessments.