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Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities: Evidence-Based Practice

  • 10 Jan 2025
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Virtual via Zoom
  • 398

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January 10, 2025

 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Description:

Students with disabilities often receive extra time, a separate room, breaks, or even a test read to them, but school-based teams rarely feel fully confident in making decisions about these accommodations. Must every student with ADHD get a separate location for testing? Should accommodations be given for anxiety? Questions like these are even more difficult to address when schools feel pressure from families, private evaluators, and occasionally attorneys!  In this presentation, Dr. Lovett will cover the most important aspects of the legal framework for testing accommodations, and then cover relevant research studies on accommodations--research that many decision-makers have not seen. The presentation concludes with guidance for legally defensible, evidence-based practices in accommodation decision-making.

Learning Objectives:

The participants will be able to:

  1. Apply the legal framework from special education and anti-discrimination laws to educational accommodations policies.
  2. Describe three types of educational records that can provide evidence related to disability
  3. Describe the results of recent research studies on accommodations for students with disabilities
  4. Analyze complex accommodations cases to make evidence-based decisions

Who should attend?

School psychologists, school counselors, social workers, school administrators, community providers, and special education teachers

Earn 1 hour of CPD through NASP  

About the Presenter:

Dr. Ben Lovett is a Professor in the School Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he teaches courses in assessment and the legal and ethical aspects of school psychology practice. He has over 100 publications in psychology and education, including his book Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities (2015, APA Press), and more recently Practical Psychometrics (2023, Guilford Press). He serves as a consultant to testing agencies and schools on issues related to accommodations, and occasionally serves as an expert witness in accommodations cases. He is also a licensed psychologist and conducts evidence-based psychotherapy for test anxiety.


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