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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As long as the test scores are reported to the colleges indicating that they were taken with particular accommodations, I’m fine with it.  Part of the test is to see how testers perform under the time pressure.  If that element is reduced, particularly in tests where there is a real intentional time crunch, that should be transparent. [/quote]

So colleges can engage in even more rampant disability discrimination? [/quote]

A PP explained it well. There is a range of processing speeds in kids who are neurotypical.  Timed tests are measuring this speed and significantly penalizing students with lower processing speeds.  All the indicator does is say that a test marked as having received an accommodation should not be used to evaluate speed but can be used for accuracy.  Personally, I think we should get rid of timed tests all together. [/quote]

I’m fine with getting rid of timed tests entirely. They seem fairly useless as a predictor. I am not remotely okay with tests indicating accommodations, and I say that as the parent of a disabled kid who doesn’t get extra time.

It’s so obvious to me that most of the posters in this thread defending their bigoted takes have no experience about what it means to be disabled. The level of discrimination faced by disabled kids is so, so high. I do not trust any college admissions boards to fairly evaluate disabled kids in admissions. But I am fully in favor of kids making as much use of accommodations as they can. [/quote]

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