[nabs-l] taking quizzes and tests

[Adriana Pulido]

Hi,
I have found it very easy to arrange things for quizzes and tests with
my professors. They have preferred not to use the DRC procedures, so I
have always taken the quizzes and test in the classroom at the same
time as everyone else. I have even been able to ask for extra time
when I have needed it.
Another thing that really helps is that your professor send you the
questions a few minutes before the class starts, so that you can start
typing the answers as soon as you enter the classroom.

Adriana

2013/2/1, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>:
> Hi all,
>
> How do you go about taking quizzes and tests?
> Every school seems a bit different in rules to administer tests to disabled
> students.
>
> At Marymount university, MU, I went to the learning center where students
> got tutored and took either make up or regular tests.
> I signed the honor code pledge and then completed the test with a reader
> usually, a student reader they provided. I could use the pc as well if it
> was an essay exam.
>
> At nova, community college, they have a testing center. you take it there in
> a room alone. You can get a reader as well if you need that.
> They have jaws on a pc at the testing center,so I can use it there if I opt
> to read it on the pc.
>
> Do you go through the formal disability office procedure and take exams in a
> separate building and whatever place for test takers with disabilities?
> I usually have done it unless my professor wants to work something else out;
> for instance, giving me short quizzes orally after class.
>
> Have you taken exams or quizzes in professor’s offices using your own
> equipment or in class? Do you work out other arrangements out with
> professors such as this rather than going to the designated testing office.
>
> I ask because I want to do this for a short quiz. Why go over to the testing
> center on the other side of campus when I feel I can take the quiz right
> there in the building? I’d either read the quiz via my notetaker or bring a
> laptop. My professor seemed unsure about this idea. She said, I’ll ask the
> disability counseling center about this.
> I said, if you do, they will just say I take them in the testing center;
> this is the default arrangement unless we work out something else. I get the
> sense she is uncomfortable with me taking the quiz after class. Note that
> that her office hours are right after class and her office is in that
> building. Its so much more convenient to take the quiz there rather than
> walk way to the testing center for a 10 question quiz.
>
>
> She said its not online; I explained that I could read it in Word format
> electronically on a flash drive; so it did not need to be online for me to
> take it on a electronic device.
>
>
> Anyway, just wondered what others have done. Hope my idea also sounds
> reasonable. to me it seems fair. I’d still be supervised while taking the
> quiz and would not have to go to the testing center.
>
> Ashley
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Adriana Pulido
Filóloga en Inglés y músico de la Universidad
Nacional de Colombia. Estudiante de Maestría en University of Florida.