A public-school assessment is intended to measure
students' ability to infer implicit meanings in English texts.
A student with a significant fine-motor impairment
understands the texts but loses substantial testing time
because every response must be handwritten. The
school considers permitting the use of a word processor
without changing the texts, inference questions, scoring
criteria, or allotted cognitive demands.
From an assessment-validity perspective, which interpretation is appropriate?
From an assessment-validity perspective, which interpretation is appropriate?