Modified Alternate Assessments: Design Strategies and Experimental Results

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Modified Alternate Assessments Design Strategies
and Experimental Results

• Item Modification Strategies and Item
  Presentation
• National Conference on Student Assessment
• June 17,2008

Porter W. Palmer Discovery
Education Assessment
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Reading

• Comprehension, Meaning, Content, Reading
  Comprehension, Analyze Literature, Analyze
  Informational Texts (Comprehension)
• Decoding, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development,
  Word Study (Vocabulary)

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Item Modification Strategies

• Removed least effective distracter
• Simplified language
• Added graphic support
• Increased white space
• Added voice over
• Mathematics (directions and items)
• Reading (directions and stems that contained no
  content)

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Original Item 2
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Original Item 2
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Modified Item 2
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Modified Reading Support Item 2
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Original Item 40
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Original Item 40
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Modified Item 40
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Modified Reading Support Item 40
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Mathematics Focus

• Numbers and Operations, Number Sense, Number
  Theory, Numbers, Numbers and Computation
  (Numbers)
• Data and Probability, Probability and Statistics,
  Data Analysis (Data)

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Original Item 38
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Original Item 38
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Modified Item 38
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Modified Reading Support Item 38