1. Connecticut Enhanced Assessment Grant
KENTUCKY
June 22, 2010

2. Connecticut Enhanced Assessment Grant - Kentucky
Background
Review of Finding
Implications for Kentucky

3. Connecticut Enhanced Assessment Grant - Kentucky
Background of Accommodation Work in Kentucky
1990 – Kentucky Educational Reform
Performance-based testing led to a more rigorous model and a small number of proficient students
Concern for special education students led to a comprehensive package of accommodations

4. List of Kentucky Accommodations
Disabled Student Accommodations
Use of assistive technology
Readers (permitted for reading and math tests) may read entire passages
Scribes
Paraphrasing
Extended time
Reinforcement and behavioral modification strategies
Manipulatives
Prompting and cueing
Interpreters
Note: Calculators allowed on math tests for all students

5. List of Kentucky Accommodations
English Language Learner Accommodations
Use of assistive technology
Readers (permitted for reading and math tests) may read entire passages
Scribes with limited conditions
Extended time
Prompting or cueing
Interpreters for students with deafness or hearing impairment
Simplified language and oral native language support for Limited English Proficient students

6. Accommodation Studies
1999 NAEP Study conducted by Richard Innes
2010 NAEP Flags
NAEP FLAGS
Grade 4 Math IEP
Grade 8 Math IEP
Grade 8 Math ELL
19%
38%
36%
Grade 4 Reading Total
Grade 4 Reading IEP
Grade 4 Reading ELL 8%
50%
43%
Grade 8 Results Total
Grade 8 Results IEP
Grade 8 Results ELL 7%
57%
68%

7. CT EAG Findings
Kentucky chose to study the effect of read aloud accommodation on test scores for SWD in grade 4. The study findings showed increased test scores for SWD more than for SWOD. The difference in score gain, due to the read aloud accommodation between the two groups, was significant.

8. CT EAG Study Findings Accommodation Effects Kentucky
Item Statistics Not Changed
Changes in Item Stats
Test Dimensionality Not Changed
Test Structure Not Changed
Significantly Increased Test Scores
Significantly Increased Test Scores for SWD More Than SWOD (Disability X
Accommodation)
CT EAG Study Findings

9. Implications for Kentucky Suggestions for Future Studies
Build in provisions for on-site monitoring of the assessment process to gain an understanding of how accommodations are administered at the individual student level.
Expand the student read aloud accommodation testing to students at middle school and high school levels to measure age affect.
Conduct future studies in a different time of the school year, probably in the fall.

10. Implications for Kentucky Uses of the Study
Supports United States Department of Education requirements.
Supports Kentucky’s application for Race to the Top and State Fiscal Stabilization Funds Phase 2.

11. Kentucky Implications Future Action
Kentucky will conduct a thorough review of accommodations for the upcoming state test.
Expectations exist that accommodations in Kentucky will be changed from the existing model.