Title: Modified Alternate Assessments: Design Strategies and Experimental Results
1Modified 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
2Reading
- Comprehension, Meaning, Content, Reading
Comprehension, Analyze Literature, Analyze
Informational Texts (Comprehension) - Decoding, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development,
Word Study (Vocabulary)
3Item 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)
4Original Item 2
5Original Item 2
6Modified Item 2
7Modified Reading Support Item 2
Script Read the following passage and then answer the next 6 questions. (Pause) This question asks, Based on this passage, we could predict that the narrator........"
8Original Item 40
9Original Item 40
10Modified Item 40
11Modified Reading Support Item 40
Script Read the following passage and then answer the question.
12Mathematics Focus
- Numbers and Operations, Number Sense, Number
Theory, Numbers, Numbers and Computation
(Numbers) - Data and Probability, Probability and Statistics,
Data Analysis (Data)
13Original Item 38
14Original Item 38
15Modified Item 38
16Modified Reading Support Item 38
Script Mr. White is buying a car. He will make a down payment of 1,735.00. He needs to get exactly 1,735.00 from the bank. The largest bills that he can get from the bank are 100 bills.At most, how many hundred dollar bills will he receive?