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Like most schools, testing proves to be a busy time for students and teachers. My campus has over 60 students in the special education program each year. Many of these students are receiving specific accommodations in their ARD meetings, such as varied levels of oral administration on unit, district and state tests. The ARD committee is also deciding to have certain students take the STAAR online, in order for the students to have the best chance to be successful. When we test, whether it be local or state testing, it also requires our faculty to be scheduled to accommodate each of these groups, which pulls our special education team out of the classes they support. These headphones will allow the students with oral administration accommodations to take their tests on the computer, and will allow the special education team to use our resources better. I am able to convert the tests to PowerPoint, and record myself reading the questions and answer choices, and then embed the audio files to each question's slide. This allows all students with any level of oral administration to have control over what is read to them, how many times they need it read, and lets the students go at their own pace, as opposed to waiting on every student to finish so that the administrator can move on to the next question. It also helps those students get ready for the STAAR Online by getting them accustomed to taking the tests on the computer.
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