Accessibility Supports/Tools

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Accessibility Supports for CAASPP Assessments

  • The California Department of Education recognizes the validity of assessment results depend on each and every student having the appropriate accessibility support, based on the constructs being measured by a particular assessment.  

    Who can access the supports/tools?  Some tools are available to all students, these are accessed by student choice.  Other tools and supports are only available to students with a formal plan (Individualized Education Plan (IEP) or 504 Plan).   

    Supports are offered as embedded and non-embedded:  

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Embedded:  supports that are digitally delivered or settings available on the technology platform.

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Non-embedded:   supports that are not part of the tecnology platform, but are offered locally by the site, at time of testing.

Accessibility Supports Visual Guides

These subject-specific guides provide a listing of the supports available to students taking the ELA, math and/or science pilot.  For restrictions on the tools/supports, refer to the Matrix One Guide (PDF).    

Click on the image below to access the ELA, math and/or science pilot guide.

ELA supports

Math supports

Access Support Science Pilot

The What do I look like? PDF provides a visual of the different tools that are available when taking the computer-based assessments in ELA, math and the Science pilot.

Other Resources: 

  • Click on this link to access a video that provides an overview of the embedded tools that are available, by default, to all students when taking the Smarter Balanced ELA and math test.