The Influence of a Response Format Test Accommodation for College Students with and without Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Potter, Kyle; Lewandowski, Lawrence; Spenceley, Laura
Titel	The Influence of a Response Format Test Accommodation for College Students with and without Disabilities
Quelle	In: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 41 (2016) 7, S.996-1007 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0260-2938
DOI	10.1080/02602938.2015.1052368
Schlagwörter	Testing Accommodations; Disabilities; Multiple Choice Tests; Vocabulary; Evaluation Methods; Scores; Reading Comprehension; Reading Tests; Questionnaires; Undergraduate Students; Statistical Analysis; Nelson Denny Reading Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Testing process; Accessibility (for disabled); Accessibility; Disabled person; Testdurchführung; Testen; Barrierefreiheit; Zugänglichkeit; Behinderter; Handicap; Behinderung; Multiple choice examinations; Multiple-choice tests, Multiple-choice examinations; Multiple-Choice-Verfahren; Wortschatz; Leseverstehen; Lesetest; Fragebogen; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	Standardised and other multiple-choice examinations often require the use of an answer sheet with fill-in bubbles (i.e. "bubble" or Scantron sheet). Students with disabilities causing impairments in attention, learning and/or visual-motor skill may have difficulties with multiple-choice examinations that employ such a response style. Such students may request and receive testing accommodations that intend to mitigate these impairments, such as circling responses in a test booklet, which contains both the questions and corresponding multiple-choice answers. The current study evaluated this test accommodation as compared to using a bubble sheet or Scantron on a multiple-choice vocabulary test. College students with (n = 25) and without (n = 76) disabilities completed a vocabulary test under both booklet (accommodated) and bubble sheet (standard) conditions. Results demonstrated that answering in a test booklet, a much preferred response mode, allowed students to attempt significantly more items than using a bubble sheet, improving their overall test scores. Booklet responding tends to improve overall performance, even for students without disabilities, calling into question the specificity and validity of this accommodation. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01