PARCC Accessibility
PARCC is committed to providing all students, including but not limited to, students with disabilities, English learners, and underserved populations with equitable access to high-quality, 21st-century PARCC assessments.
The PARCC consortium has issued a draft PARCC Accommodations Manual is a comprehensive policy document that will support local educators in the selection, administration, and evaluation of accommodations for the assessment of students with disabilities (SWDs) and English learners (EL) on the PARCC End-of-Year, Performance-Based, and Mid-Year assessment components. The draft PARCC Accommodations Manual includes many proposed accommodations policies that are currently in use across PARCC states. What is different from many current state accommodations manuals, however, is that the draft PARCC Accommodations Manual includes not only proposed participation and accommodations policies for SWDs and ELs, but also information about tools that will be provided through PARCC’s computer-based assessment delivery system for all students to optimize their performance on the assessments.
The draft Manual details a three-tiered process to providing access to the assessments for all students:
• Embedded Supports: Tools embedded in the computer-delivered system available to all students to use (e.g. font magnification, highlighting tool, bolding, underlining)
• Accessibility Features: Tools embedded in the computer-delivered system open to all students to use, but must be made available at the discretion of school-based educators (e.g. background/font color, answer masking)
• Accommodations: Supports for SWDs and ELs that increase access while maintaining a valid and reliable score (e.g. braille form, extended time, small group testing, word-to-word native language dictionary)
The draft Manual details a three-tiered process to providing access to the assessments for all students:
• Embedded Supports: Tools embedded in the computer-delivered system available to all students to use (e.g. font magnification, highlighting tool, bolding, underlining)
• Accessibility Features: Tools embedded in the computer-delivered system open to all students to use, but must be made available at the discretion of school-based educators (e.g. background/font color, answer masking)
• Accommodations: Supports for SWDs and ELs that increase access while maintaining a valid and reliable score (e.g. braille form, extended time, small group testing, word-to-word native language dictionary)
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