Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - Some accommodations are listed as non-standard and result in only raw scores being reported.

Combination Participation - An eligible disabled student may meet state requirements for passing the Modified High School Graduation Qualifying Examination (Modified HSGQE) using any combination of testing under standard conditions, testing with the use of accommodations, or passing an approved alternative assessment (Modified HSGQE or Nonstandardized HSGQE).
Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - HSGQE.

Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - Scores of assessments taken with alternate accommodations will not be included in aggregate results at the school, district, and state level on the paper reports provided by the testing contractor. Only students with IEP’s may be given alternate accommodations.

Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - California policy differentiates between test variations, accommodations, modifications, and adaptations. Test variations are available to all students if regularly used in the classroom. Accommodations are available to students with an IEP or 504 Plan. Modifications fundamentally alter what the exam measures or affect the comparability of exam scores and are available to students with an IEP or 504 Plan. Adaptations are only available to students taking the alternate assessment.

Combination Participation - Accommodations are content-area specific therefore, only those accommodations the student requires for the specific content area being assessed may be selected. When two or more content areas are being assessed, such as reading, writing and math, the student may take the general math Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) and the reading and writing Colorado Student Assessment Program Alternate (CSAPA).The reading and writings assessments cannot be separated.
Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - Non-approved accommodations/modifications result in the student being assigned a "no score" for the purposes of state, district, and school reports.

Selective Participation - The Planning and Placement Team (PPT) may determine that a child will not participate in a particular district wide assessment of student achievement (or part of such an assessment).

Selective Participation - Students who are dually eligible as students with disabilities and English language learners may be granted an exemption from all or part of the science and social studies assessments if and only if both of the following criteria are met: 1.The student has been enrolled in Delaware public schools for less than one year. 2.The decision to exempt is made on an individual basis weighing the factors outlined in the inclusion guidelines.
Combination Participation - Students with Disabilities and ELL students in grades 2-11 will participate in the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) unless included in the Delaware Alternate Portfolio Assessment (DAPA) and/or in an alternate assessment to the DSTP reading and writing tests.
Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - Testing condition 3: students may test with accommodations that change the construct being assessed. Such accommodations interfere with the comparability of student scores to the scores of students testing under standard conditions.

Combination Participation - Students may need certain accommodations on some subtests, but not on others. For example, a student may need extra time and testing in a small group situation to complete extended response questions, but can take a test with multiple-choice questions without accommodations.

Testing using unique aggregated accommodations - Conditional and non-standard accommodations are more expansive accommodations that should be used sparingly but do not affect the reporting of scores.

Combination Participation - If the IEP team determines that the student meets the criteria for participation in the alternate assessment and he/she is working on content standards within the general education curriculum, the student may participate in relevant portions of the regular assessments and participate in appropriate areas in the alternate assessment.

Combination Participation - It may be determined by a case conference committee that a student would benefit from participation in both the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress-Plus (ISTEP+) and the Indiana Standard Tool for Alternate Reporting (ISTAR). In this case, ISTAR is considered a supplemental assessment to ISTEP+, not an alternate to ISTEP+.

Combination Participation - In some instances, it may be decided that a student should participate in general assessment in one content area, but alternate in the other two.

Combination Participation - A student may participate in any combination of the state assessments with the exception of the state alternate assessment.
Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - Some students may be eligible for the Kansas Assessment of Modified Measures (KAMM). A modification is a change in the procedure for test administration, which will in some way change what is being measured. The use of modifications results in an invalid score and the student is considered to be not tested when calculating the participation rate for AYP purposes. The student’s score will also not be included when calculating the proficiency rate for AYP decisions.

Combination Participation - A separate decision must be made for each subject scheduled for testing, a student may take the standard test in one subject and the alternate assessment in another.
Testing using unique aggregated accommodations - A non-standard accommodation is defined as an accommodation which changes the way a Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test is presented or the way a student responds to test questions which may alter a portion of what the test is intended to measure. Performance level results for students with disabilities-whether they take the standard tests with standard or nonstandard accommodations, or without accommodations, or participate through the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System-Alternate Assessment (MCAS-Alt), are aggregated in MCAS reports with the results for students who took the tests without accommodations. Scaled scores for tests taken with either standard or nonstandard accommodations are also aggregated in MCAS reports with scores of tests taken without accommodations.

Combination Participation - Participation with accommodations or in the alternate assessment is determined content area by content area.
Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - Non-standard accommodations change the construct that the assessment is measuring rendering scores that are not valid. Use of nonstandard accommodations may adversely affect a student’s eligibility to earn a MI Merit Award scholarship; in addition, students who use nonstandard assessment accommodations will not count as being assessed for the calculation of the NCLB participation rates for both the school and district.

Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - Modifications are available for students taking a basic skills test (i.e. for students who entered grade 8 prior to 2005-2006). Modifications change the meaning of the test score. No modifications are available for the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments-Series II (MCA-II) or other accountability tests.

Combination Participation - Students may need accommodations when testing in one content area but may not need them when testing in another content area.

Combination Participation - It is permissible for a student with disabilities to take the Criterion-Referenced Test-Alternate (CRT-Alternate) in one but not both subject areas.
Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - On the CRT, non-standard accommodations change what the test was intended to measure. The score achieved on the test taken with a non-standard accommodation would be reported in the ‘novice’ performance category; the score becomes invalid; the student is considered to be a non-participant when calculating the participation rate for AYP purposes; further, the results of a test taken with a nonstandard accommodation are not included in the calculations of AYP.

Combination Participation - If a district uses multiple assessments, a student may participate in the general assessment on some and in the general assessment with accommodations on the others.
Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - Assessments with modifications must be reported at the "beginning level" of the grade in which the student is enrolled.

Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - Modifications affect the validity of test scores. Students using modifications will be placed in the lowest achievement category for that test and will not be counted for participation.

Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - Use of an accommodation in the "Modifications (F)" section will invalidate the session(s) in which it was used and no credit will be given.

Combination Participation - Students with disabilities shall participate in the Alternate Proficiency in each content area where the nature of the student’s disability is so severe that the student is not receiving instruction in any of the knowledge and skills measured by the general Statewide assessment and the student cannot complete any of the types of questions on the assessment in the content area(s) even with accommodations and modifications.

Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - Assessments taken using a non-allowed modification will be invalidated; the student will be counted as a non-participant in the determination of the school’s participation rate and as a "no score" in the school’s performance results.

Combination Participation - A student may participate in the North Dakota state assessment for one content area, and in the North Dakota alternate assessment for the other content area(s).

Combination Participation - Students may take one subject test with accommodations and another without depending on the student’s needs. Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - A modification alters the construct that a test measures and changes the meaning of the test scores.

Locally Selected Assessments - The school district and Admission, review, and dismissal (ARD) committee determine a Locally Determined Alternate Assessment for students who are receiving an alternate Texas Assessments of Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) curriculum.

Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - Modifications are changes in the test or assessment conditions that fundamentally alter the test score interpretation and comparability. Providing a student with a modification during a state accountability assessment constitutes a test irregularity because it invalidates the student’s test score. Test scores from a modified test administration will not be counted toward percent proficient for determining AYP, nor will they count as participation in a statewide assessment.

Out-of-Level Assessments - The adapted assessment option is based on out-of-level administrations of the general statewide assessments.
Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - IEP teams do have the authority to use unapproved accommodations on the assessment for a student. However, these tests will be considered non-comparable to the general assessment and scored as invalid in the school accountability index.
Locally Selected Assessments - The student’s team may select modified assessments or prepare a portfolio of work samples that will be submitted to the Department’s Alternate Assessment Program for review and scoring. A student’s support team can also select two content areas from the Lifeskills Portfolio format to assess using the portfolio method.

Selective Participation - Students participating in the Virginia Alternate Assessment Program (VAAP) may fulfill federal participation requirements by submitting collections of evidence for the content areas of only math and reading.
Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - A student who has passed a Standards of learning assessment utilizing any accommodation, including a non-standard accommodation, has passed for all purposes, including earning verified credit.

Combination Participation - The IEP team should take many factors into consideration when choosing the most appropriate assessment option in each content area.
Out-of-Level Assessments - The Developmentally Appropriate Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL DAW), allows students to take the WASL at a grade level that best matches their abilities. The IEP team will select the grade level WASL that most closely matches the student’s current developmental/instructional level.

Combination Participation - Separate decisions regarding the need for accommodations or alternate assessment must be made for each content domain included in the Wisconsin Student Assessment System (WSAS) regular assessments.
Locally Selected Assessments - The department’s policy on alternate assessment also encourages educators to use data collected for determining a student’s present level of educational performance as the student’s alternate assessment. This policy enables students with disabilities to have their performance measured using methods (classroom-based tests, teacher observations, etc.) most-closely aligned with the objectives identified in the student’s IEP.

Out-of-Level Assessments - If the student can take the SAT but is very low in performance, it may be useful to change the content of the test by administering an earlier grade level. Normative scores are not valid for any of these modified administration formats.
Testing with modifications or non-standard accommodations - Normative scores are not valid for any of these modified administration formats.

Selective Participation - Even though a student may not be able to take all parts of the Palau Achievement Test, the student should be included in those parts in which participation is possible.

Exclusion Prohibited - No students are exempted from state assessments based on demographics, instructional program, or type of school.

Parent Exemption - Allowed on Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) only.
Medical Condition/Illness - Allowed on STAR and California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE).

Other- A student who is receiving services at an out-of-state residential program; A student who meets the requirements of Regulation 4140 and withdraws from the school system before the first day of the official testing window; A student who is dismissed from school.

Parent Exemption - A student may be excused from the assessment if a parent believes the test conflicts with religious beliefs.