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Accessible pedagogical practices can be used to enhance course design, teaching strategies, and assessment strategies. The recommendations below are informed by various frameworks and guidelines, including Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Universal Instructional Design (UID), and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2.
The Principles are the outcome of an extensive research efort, the National Accessible Reading Assessment Projects (NARAP), funded by the Oice of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
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- Why Is UDL and Assessment Important For Higher Education?
- Assessing Variable Learners
- Construct Relevance
- UDL Tips For Assessment
- CSP Approaches to Assessment
From cultural and linguistic proficiencies to unbridled enthusiasm for study, to desperate anxiety about the challenges ahead, students vary. Reducing cognitive, linguistic, executive, and affective barriers is of vital importance as students negotiate college and university expectations differently, according to their widely ranging background exp...
Provision of options within the design of both formative and summative assessment helps to ensure that all learners can act on new information and demonstrate what they know. This requires a distribution of the demands and benefits of any one kind of assessment among all students. For example, students with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) may have...
Assessments are designed to measure knowledge, skills, and abilities. Constructs are the knowledge, skills or abilities being measured by an assessment. By their nature, however, most assessments include features that are not relevant to the construct being assessed. Often the methods and materials used in assessments require additional skills and ...
Align assessments to learning goals.Offer authentic opportunities for assessment.Assess engagement as well as content knowledge.Include frequent formative assessments.How does culture play a role in assessment? In addition to language, when designing assessments, we must consider that the cultural knowledge of learners can impact how assessments are understood and completed. For example, there may be cultural knowledge needed about the content of assessments to complete them successfully. Likewise, cultural expe...
Ensure that assessments are fair – separate language skills from content skills. Language skills include vocabulary, comprehension, phonology, syntax (grammar), and semantics (meaning).
Apr 16, 2012 · guidelines for the use of accessible language are provided below: • Design test directions to maximize clarity and to minimize the potential for confusion. • Use vocabulary in test items that is widely accessible to all students , and avoid
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We are exploring the viability of developing computer-based systems that analyze verbal protocols produced while a student is actually reading. RSAT, a computer-administered test, assesses a student’s level of comprehension -- and the processes that support it -- while the student reads.
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Sep 22, 2022 · When designing assessments, there are many strategies that teachers can implement to measure their ELL’s content knowledge more effectively and gain a better understanding of what they have learned.
