Accommodations
Modifications
Accommodation or Modification?
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Allowing extra time for exams

What is assessment accommodation

100

True or False. A modification changes what a student is taught or expected to learn

What is true. Adjustments to the grade-appropriate curriculum expectations to better fit a student’s specific educational needs. 

100

Moving obstacles in a classroom so that a student with a wheelchair can move throughout the classroom.

What is accomodation. The student’s level of learning is not being altered; rather, the learning environment is becoming more accessible.

100

Reading books at grade level with the help of text-to-speech software

What is accomodation

200

True or False. Students can get only one accommodation for a course or subject.

What is false. Students are able to receive more than one accommodation for more than one course or subject.

200

Providing a student with visual impairment with text to speech technology is an example of a modification

What is false: The learning is not being changed rather there is assistive technology being provided to the student for an accessible learning environment. 

200

A student can use a visual timer when completing class work

What is accommodation

200

Assessment accommodations should be consistent with the accommodations permitted by the EQAO office

What is true

300

True or False? Some accommodations are allowed to be used for provincial assessments such as EQAO testing. 

What is True. Specific accommodations are  permitted for provincial EQAO assessments. 

300

True or False? If the modifications in that course involved changes to the number and/or complexity of the regular curriculum expectations, the notation “MOD”, for “modified expectations”, should be added after the course information.

What is true

300

A student learns different content material

What is modification

300

To ensure that a student is eligible to receive the permitted accommodations during provincial assessments, all necessary accommodations need to be recorded accurately in the _____.

What is IEP

400

Preferential seating

What is environmental accommodation 

400

Modifications are allowed during EQAO testing

What is fasle. Modifications are not allowed during EQAO testing

400

A teacher changes an assessment for a student to include lower-level readings, worksheets, and overall simplified vocabulary.

What is Modification. The grade level expectations of the assessment being given to the student are changed(lower level).

400

is the term used on the IEP form to identify a subject or course from the Ontario curriculum in which the  expectations differ in some way from the regular grade-level expectations.

What is modification

500

True or False? Accommodated Only (AO) is the term used in the IEP form to identify subjects or courses from the Ontario curriculum in which the student requires accommodations alone.

What is false. Accommodated Only (AC) is the term used in the IEP form to identify subjects or courses from the Ontario curriculum in which the student requires accommodations alone.

500

True or False? Modified learning expectations must represent specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-related and must describe specific knowledge and/or skills that the student can demonstrate independently, given the appropriate assessment accommodations.

What is True. 



500

Understand most vocabulary and some of the language structures appropriate to mass, capacity and volume measurement

What is a modification. 

500

the student is working at grade level, and to demonstrate knowledge/skills requires additional support


What is accomodations only (AC)