[Athen] Spelling accommodations or AT

[Kaela Parks]

One strategy to consider is breaking the activities of recall and spelling
into discrete phases of the assessment process. For example, students could
do the initial activity of moving from station to station without the use
of voice recognition or spelling aids - just focusing on the recall, and
writing down the names of the anatomical parts with an understanding that
they won't be penalized for misspellings yet. Then, afterward - they get an
additional window of time to use dictation or spelling aids to generate the
correctly spelled version of the word they already recorded. This could
help to ensure the correct answers aren't being generated via technology,
just the spelling is being corrected via technology.
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On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 11:36 AM Eckelberry, Robin <
Robin.Eckelberry at ppcc.edu> wrote:


> Hi ATHEN,

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> What kind of accommodations or AT have you put in place for spelling? Here

> are the details of the scenario:

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> Students travel through stations in a cadaver lab, and recall and spell

> anatomical parts correctly

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>    - These classes have correct spelling of medical words as a course

>    competency; therefore, an accommodation cannot be to not penalize for

>    spelling errors.

>    - Access to spellcheck on a tablet would be challenging, as we are

>    unsure how to block access to other apps or other sources of information on

>    that tablet

>    - Instructors are concerned that handheld spellcheck devices such as

>    the Spellex PocketMed Spell Checker give unfair advantages when recall is

>    required, as a student can type in the first few letters of a word and have

>    the correctly spelled word or list of words come up on the screen

>    - Dictating their answers through something like Dragon Medical would

>    likely not work when other students are present in the lab and can overhear

>    - Due to time, staffing, and space limitations, students requiring

>    spelling accommodations cannot test alone separately from the rest of the

>    students

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> Any help you can provide will be much appreciated!

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> Thanks,

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> Robin

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