Accommodations for the Reading Assessments--Grade 4The following accommodations were offered in the 1998 and 2000 reading assessments for the half-sample of schools who were permitted accommodations:
The NAEP program did not allow some of the accommodations that are permitted in certain states and other testing programs. In particular, some programs allow comprehension questions and, in some instances, reading passages to be read aloud to the students. Such "read-aloud" accommodations were viewed by NAEP as changing the nature of the construct being measured (i.e., reading comprehension) and, hence, were not permitted. Also, because the NAEP program considers the domain of its reading assessment as "reading in English," no attempt was made to provide an alternate-language version of the instrument or to allow the use of bilingual dictionaries. (The "read-aloud" and bilingual accommodations are permitted in other NAEP subject-area assessments.) Find out about the percentages of students receiving each type of accommodation in 1998 and 2000.
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