Testing Accommodations
Students with disabilities are eligible for academic accommodations, as appropriate and through compliance with Disability Services policies. Testing accommodations must be approved through Disability Services based on documentation of need provided by the student.
There are three types of testing accommodations:
Extended testing time
Extended testing time allows students longer than the regularly allotted time to complete a test. Generally this is accomplished in the campus testing center. Instructor and student decide on when the student will take the test. No student is allowed unlimited time, but additional time may be allowed if documentation supports the request.
Quiet environment
Students who require a “distraction-free” environment for testing are allowed to take their tests both out of the classroom and, at times, in a private testing room outside of the regular campus testing center.
Assisted testing
Assisted testing usually involves reading the test to the student exactly as written. Readers will not explain or re-word questions or offer any other assistance to the test-taker. A test assistant may also write answers dictated by the student or fill in testing forms as directed by the student. The director or designated staff members are the only persons allowed to conduct this type of testing.
How It Works
Students will take tests on the same day and as close to the same time as the rest of the class. In the case of scheduling conflicts or circumstances that would not allow adequate time, students may schedule tests on the day before or the day after the test with the approval of their instructor and Disability Services.
Students will be responsible for reminding instructors to forward tests to the campus testing center. In the event of an instructor failing to forward a test, the student will be allowed to reschedule based on his/her availability and, in the case of assisted testing, that of the Disability Services director or approved proctor.
All students are subject to the college’s polices on cheating or other inappropriate behaviors related to testing.