Best Practices in ELL accommodation

Best Practices in State Assessment Policies for Accommodating ELLS

This study breaks down all the accommodations that have been used on high stakes assessments, and classifies them by their utility for English Language Learners.  Because most of the accommodations that have been used were originally created for in the context of Special Ed, there are a bunch of accommodations that have been considered that don't really respond to the special needs of ELL students.  There are also a bunch of accommodations that are useful for every student in making the tests more valid measures of the student's understanding.  Those things that are so useful in the end aren't really accommodations so much as they are best practices.  The interesting thing about this study is that the one thing that is most useful to the largest set of students is extended time.  It makes you wonder about the ACT and the SAT, it really does.