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Test Equity for Deaf and Hard of Hearing: A Summit August 2008, Broomfield, Colorado

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Fundamental Test Equity Issues Identified by Participants:

  • The need for a solid first-language base
  • Lack of professionals' experience in providing accommodations
  • The increasing importance of testing
  • The design and wording of tests
  • Testing Accommodations
  • Lack of standards for giving tests and using the results
  • Transition to postsecondary and employment
  • Psycho educational testing, assessment and evaluation

Explore the following PEPNet resources to learn more about test equity issues faces by individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing:

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Video discussion of the issues

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Test Equity Summit Publications