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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand that accommodations should be made, but I do have a question on how they are structured.  How are accommodations, specifically extra time, accurately calibrated to a student's need?  For example, if all the students without accommodations in a class have difficulty finishing an exam on time or with no time to review answers but the students with accommodations have no such problems does that mean the amount of extra time they were given is too much?  What if 50% of the class finishes the exam and 50% does not?  How much extra time should the student receive in that instance?  What ends up being fair to the student needing extra time but unfair to the other students in the class?[/quote]

That is what has been pointed out. The accommodations are not personalized. Even those w accommodations- some are benefiitting from too much time while others are given too little. Then u have the abuse by the wealthy in private schools. And then you have the poor/rural/clueless families. Just untimed it for everyone [/quote]

Accommodations are personalized to a certain extent. There is basically a range of options that the College Board chooses from.

For additional time on the SAT, for example, the alternatives at 1.5x; 2.0x and multi-day testing (taken solo with a proctor -- what Singer bribed a proctor to get)

For students who need keyboarding -- sometimes it is approved for all written sections (SAT writing or AP tests) or sometimes only for the long essays, not the FRQs.

Testing can be done in a room alone, or in a small group with other students (all must have the same amount of time to complete).

Breaks can be 1 per administration, 2 or 3, and it is specified when they can occur (between this section, but not that).

And so on.

Schools ask for the options that most mirror what the student gets in school, and the College Board decides whether to match it exactly or provide something else. They state that what a student needs for day to day classroom work is not necessarily what is required for their test.

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I know of 2 diabetic kids who got double the time and snacks during the tests.  What they should have gotten was breaks between to monitor their blood sugar levels. At end of the day, these are not personalized accommodations. Some kids w accommodations are getting too much time and some kids are getting too little. And why do parents have to spend money and jump through hoops to get these accommodations for a college test? Why for those who need it that their fates depend on a bureaucract who may be having a bad day? Just untime the tests.[/quote]

Ohhhhhh my god listen to you complaining about the fact that DIABETIC kids got snacks and more time. Like YOU know what they need. [/quote]

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