Accomodations
This accommodation provides qualifying students with extra time to complete an examination.
What is "Time and a Half" or time extension?
This is the kind of everyday language that students need to communicate and perform well on the regents examinations.
What are BICS language skills?
This strategy involves explicitly educating ELLs about American values and cultural practices.
What is cultural education?
This type of alternative assessment involves extended writing responses in English concerning the subject matter.
What are essays?
This accommodation allows students to have listening passages repeated for a third time.
What is a third reading of the listening section?
This is the kind of language that is used in academic subject matter that ELLs do not use in their daily communication, but need to master in order to pass the regents examination.
What are CALP language skills?
This strategy involves explicitly teaching CALP vocabulary throughout every lesson.
What is explicit vocabulary instruction?
This kind of alternative assessment relies on a variety of synthesized skills and research to produce a final product or conclusion.
What is a research project?
This accommodation provides direct translations of terms in the form of a resource book.
What is a bilingual or multilingual dictionary/glossary?
This quality of the test questions makes them unnecessarily difficult to understand.
What is overly wordy or complicated sentence structures?
This solution to testing bias calls for a review of the cultural bias of each examination.
What is a cultural bias review board?
In one NYC school, these three components were combined to determine ELLs proficiency in biology.
What are portfolio, response essays, and biology regents.
This accommodation provides two copies of the examination, one in English, and one directly translated into the student's native language.
What is Simultaneous use of English and Alternate Language Editions?
These kinds of test questions are geared towards students of a certain culture, and create bias towards culturally different students.
What are culturally biased exam questions?
This is possible solution to testing bias calls for the creation of a culturally diverse exam.
What is a culturally inclusive examination?
This kind of personal writing style is often used as a component of the portfolio: an example is a daily log.
What is a journal?
This is how students qualify to take a bilingual Regents Examination.
What is enrollment in a bilingual education program?
This language device is rooted in cultural practices, but is still often used in the wording of test questions anyway.
What is metaphor?
This solution for testing bias calls for an examination of how the tests are scored.
What is rubric review?