FLORIDA Year to Year Comparison: The C178 total A similar Year to Year Comparison discrepancy stopped collecting accommodation “Florida number of students who took a regular exists between the SY 2014-15 C188 total information on our test documents and in our assessment with accommodations number of REGPARTWACC students who were testing systems in 2014-15 for ELA and (REGASSWACC) and received a valid score in enrolled at the time of the assessment and the Mathematics and only required that schools SY 2014-15 is significantly smaller than the SY SY 2015-16 number. record and maintain the accommodations 2015-16 number. The discrepancy is 64,644 information at the local level. students (10901%). It was realized during the 2015-16 school year that the accommodations information was required for federal reporting purposes. However, at that time it was too late to make changes to the documents/systems and collect all accommodations data for the spring 2016 testing. For 2015-16 reporting we were able to generate data for certain accommodations through our computer testing system (text-to-speech, masking, paper-based tests) and certain paper based accommodations (LP, Braille, The discrepancy between 2014-15 vs 2015-16 is because in 2014-15 we reported certain paper accommodations and in 2015-16 we were able to add certain computer based accommodations. The numbers for the 2016-17 year will be different. In 2016-17 we will begin collecting information on all accommodations on paper and computer based assessments Grade 3 Mathematics and Grade 4 Reading assessments have fewer accommodations reported as they were paper based assessments only in 2015-16.”
FLORIDA Year to Year Comparison: The C178 total number of students who took a regular assessment with accommodations (REGASSWACC) and received a valid score in SY 2014-15 is significantly smaller than the SY 2015-16 number. The discrepancy is 64,644 students (10901%). A similar Year to Year Comparison discrepancy exists between the SY 2014-15 C188 total number of REGPARTWACC students who were enrolled at the time of the assessment and the SY 2015-16 number. “Florida stopped collecting accommodation information on our test documents and in our testing systems in 2014-15 for ELA and Mathematics and only required that schools record and maintain the accommodations information at the local level. It was realized during the 2015-16 school year that the accommodations information was required for federal reporting purposes. However, at that time it was too late to make changes to the documents/systems and collect all accommodations data for the spring 2016 testing. For 2015-16 reporting we were able to generate data for certain accommodations through our computer testing system (text-to-speech, masking, paper-based tests) and certain paper based accommodations (LP, Braille, The discrepancy between 2014-15 vs 2015-16 is because in 2014-15 we reported certain paper accommodations and in 2015-16 we were able to add certain computer based accommodations. The numbers for the 2016-17 year will be different. In 2016-17 we will begin collecting information on all accommodations on paper and computer based assessments Grade 3 Mathematics and Grade 4 Reading assessments have fewer accommodations reported as they were paper based assessments only in 2015-16.”
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