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Familiar Proctor/Test Administrator: States’ Accessibility Policies, 2020 (Archived)

This summary of states’ accessibility policies for familiar proctor/test administrator is part of the Accommodations Toolkit published by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).[1] The toolkit also contains a summary of the research literature on familiar test proctor or test administrator.

Accessibility policies often have several tiers of accessibility features: universal features, designated features, and accommodations.[2] Figures 1 and 2 summarize how states included familiar proctor/test administrator in their accessibility policies for students with disabilities and English learners in 2020. Table 1 shows how familiar proctor/test administrator was included in the policies, while Table 2 contains additional details and specifications.

**Figure 1. States’ Accessibility Policies for Familiar Proctor/Test Administrator for Students with Disabilities, 2020**

**Figure 2. States’ Accessibility Policies for Familiar Proctor/Test Administrator for English Learners, 2020**

Table 1. Accommodations Policies for Familiar Proctor/Test Administrator by State, 2020

U=Universal Feature, D= Designated Feature, A=Accommodation, ELA= English Language Arts, X= Allowed, SD = Allowed for Students with Disabilities, E = Allowed for English Learners, Blank cell = no policy found, N = Notes in Table 2
State	Reading/ELA/Writing			Math			Science			Notes (See Table 2)
State	U	D	A	U	D	A	U	D	A	Notes (See Table 2)
Alabama
Alaska			SD, E			SD, E			SD, E	N
Arizona	X			x			X
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware	X			X			X			N
District of Columbia
Florida			SD			SD			SD	N
Georgia			SD			SD			SD	N
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois			SD			SD			SD	N
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland	X			X			X			N
Massachusetts		X			X			X
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi	X			X			X
Missouri		X			X			X
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey										N
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio	X			X			X
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee	X			X			X
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming		X			X			X
Total	6	3	4	6	3	4	6	3	4
Total (English Learners)	6	3	1	6	3	1	6	3	1

Note: Blank cell = no policy found

Table 2. Details and Specifications: States' Braille Accessibility Policies

State	Details/Specifications
Alaska	The accommodation “specific test administrator” is used for students who need a familiar test administrator.
Delaware	The student knows the test administrator and/or interpreter and has been working with that individual throughout the school year.
Florida	A student may be administered a test in a familiar place with a test proctor present, and/or a familiar person who has been appropriately trained may administer the test. Procedures for test security must be followed and precautions taken to ensure that the test remains secure.
Georgia	“Familiar test administrator” is a standard administration procedure.
Illinois	Test Administrators administering the assessment or providing accommodations should be an education professional who is familiar with the student, and who is typically responsible for providing the accommodation in the classroom.
Maryland	A trained testing administrator familiar to the student (e.g., the student’s teacher) facilitates the administration and items are administered over the course of one or more testing sessions as needed.
New Jersey	Test Procedure Modification: Using a test examiner who is familiar with the student.

Footnotes

[1]: States’ accessibility policies on familiar proctor/test administrator were obtained through the examination and analysis of publicly available information, including accommodations manuals or other policy documents, on state department of education websites. The policies were gathered from states’ websites between January and March 2021.The information in the tables from each state was coded based on information in the state policy.
[2]: Universal Features are available to all students as they access instructional or assessment content. Designated Features are available to any student as long as an educator (or team of educators, with student and parent input) indicates that they would be helpful given the student’s characteristics and needs. Accommodations are changes in procedures or materials ensure equitable access to instructional and assessment content and generate valid assessment results for students who need them. Accommodations are generally available to students for whom there is documentation on an individualized education plan (IEP) or 504 accommodations plan; some states also have offered accommodations to English learners.

Attribution

Lazarus, S. S., Quanbeck, M., & Goldstone, L. (2021). Familiar proctor/test administrator: States’ accessibility policies, 2020 (NCEO Accommodations Toolkit #8b). National Center on Educational Outcomes.

NCEO is supported through a Cooperative Agreement (#H326G160001) with the Research to Practice Division, Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education. The Center is affiliated with the Institute on Community Integration at the College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota. NCEO does not endorse any of the commercial products used in the studies. The contents of this report were developed under the Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Education, but does not necessarily represent the policy or opinions of the U.S. Department of Education or Offices within it. Readers should not assume endorsement by the federal government. Project Officer: David Egnor