Highlights
Record Level: Student by Year by Assessment
Record Count: 139,000-282,000 records per year
Years Covered: 2008-Present
Population Coverage: Data covers all students from private, home schooled and public schools who have participated in these assessments
This Assessment Accommodations Researcher file contains commonly requested student-level assessment data from the K-12 environment pertaining to accommodations on state administered tests, such as MI-Access, MEAP-Access, M-STEP, MEAP, MME, ELPA and WIDA. Data covers all students from private, home schooled and public schools who have participated in these assessments. Data from the 2007-2008 school year forward will be included. Future years' data will be added on an annual basis as data become available. We have records on accommodations on assessments for over 666,000 students. With regards to each specific assessment, we have records for 170,000 students that were given accommodations when they were assessed using the MEAP, 60,000 students that were given accommodations when they were assessed using the MME, 20,000 students that were given accommodations when they were assessed using the MEAP-Access, 40,000 students that were given accommodations when they were assessed using the Mi-Access, 27,000 students that were given accommodations when they were assessed using the ELPA, 10,000 students that were given accommodations when they were assessed using the WIDA, and 458,000 students that were given accommodations when they were assessed using the M-STEP.
There are only about two thousand records in the 2019-2020 school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Codebook
| Category Sort descending | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Category: Testing Accommodations | Variable: AUDIO_AMP_DEVICE | Description: AUDIO AMP DEVICE OR NOISE BUFFER |
| Category: Testing Accommodations | Variable: REPEAT_LSTNG_TEST_RSPNSE_OTN | Description: REPEAT LISTENING TEST RESPONSE OPTIONS BY HUMAN READER |
| Category: Testing Accommodations | Variable: CONTRASTING_TEXT | Description: CONTRASTING TEXT |
| Category: Testing Accommodations | Variable: TEST_IN_NONSCHL_SETTG | Description: TEST MAY BE ADMINISTERED BY SCHOOL PERSONNEL IN A NON-SCHOOL SETTING |
| Category: Testing Accommodations | Variable: LEP_OTHER_ACCOM | Description: LEP OTHER ACCOM |
| Category: Testing Accommodations | Variable: MODIFIED_TIMING_SCHEDULING | Description: MODIFIED TIMING/SCHEDULING |
| Category: Testing Accommodations | Variable: AUDIO_PART_A | Description: AUDIO PART A |
| Category: Testing Accommodations | Variable: REPEAT_TEST_ITEM | Description: REPEAT TEST ITEMS BY HUMAN READER |
| Category: Testing Accommodations | Variable: DIRECTION_PROVIDED | Description: Directions provided in American Sign Language or Signed Exact English |
| Category: Testing Accommodations | Variable: TEST_READ | Description: TEST READ |
| Category: Testing Accommodations | Variable: LEP_OTHER_ACCOM_PART_A | Description: LEP OTHER ACCOM PART A |