[nobe-l] Standardized Testing

[taranabella0 at gmail.com]

Kathy,

I will definitely look into it. I know with the school where I am for student teaching, my special education teacher was told by the administration that only a licensed individual could administer the test. It became somewhat of an issue when my cooperating teacher went on maternity leave and the speech pathologist almost had to take over some of the testing because the school was having difficulty finding someone with a license. I'll reply to this email if I find any pertinent information. If anyone on this email group teaches in the elementary grades, I would love to hear from you as well.

Thanks so much,

Tara  

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> On Mar 23, 2017, at 3:17 PM, Kathy via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Tara, that does complicate things. You might want to investigate a little further, though, as I know substitute teachers can administer the test if they sign off on the paperwork of confidentiality and such. They would not have licenses from the state. Of course, I am speaking from the high school Gen ed angle only.
> 
> Kathy Nimmer
> Even in the valleys, keep believing in the mountains.
> 
>> On Mar 23, 2017, at 2:52 PM, Tara Abella via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Kathy,
>> 
>> Unfortunately, for a lot of the statewide tests, the assessment must be administered by a person with a license from the department of education. My cooperating teacher has paras to monitor, but she has to give the directions for each test. I agree with finding other tasks to assist with, but most paras are not licensed and could not give the test.
>> 
>> Tara Abella
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Mar 22, 2017, at 8:44 PM, Kathy via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Tara, 
>>> 
>>> I think that being a special ed teacher in being blind in this situation is going to require you delegating some of that adaptive administration to the paras in your classroom. All resource rooms will have these assistance, and the truth is that you cannot take test materials to put them into adaptive formats for you to read as the teacher, nor can you load software onto a machine that the special ed student is using. You could not trust technology such as the cayenne FB reader to read the text to you with enough accuracy that you could therefore read it to a student. A testing company has no obligation to provide a real copy of the test for the teacher to read to a student. In some situations, that concept might be possible, but there is no legal obligation because you are not the testing individual. Because test materials are so tightly controlled and testing conditions are so restricted, this will be one area, in my opinion, that delegation is  necessary. 
>>> 
>>> Whenever I have to give over something that is not doable for me because of my blindness, I look for other things that I can simultaneously do more of. So, you can be the one on top of the schedule of who comes into the resource room when, or you could be the individual who is stacking the materials into the protective boxes. You could be the one working the timer or the one who is organizing files. You could be the one working with students who are not testing or the one who is doing extra planning while students are testing so that everybody will benefit from your proactive planning. 
>>> 
>>> Just my opinion, but a blind teacher is not going to be able to assist a cited student in a resource room with standardized testing very easily at all.
>>> 
>>> Kathy Nimmer
>>> Even in the valleys, keep believing in the mountains.
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 22, 2017, at 3:57 PM, Tara Abella via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> During my student teaching, I will be assisting with the administration of our state wide standardized test. How do other blind teachers do this? Some students need tests read to them, responses recorded for them, or assistants with the computer if taking the test on the computer. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Tara
>>>> 
>>>> 
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