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Universal Feature:

For online, the student will select the highlighter button using mouse control. For paper, the student will use the preferred tool.

Universal Feature:

Student may use a highlighter to highlight desired assessment questions or selections.

Universal Feature:

Highlight text in a passage or item. Four colors are available for highlighting text.

Universal Feature (Computer-Based Testing), Designated Feature (Paper-Based Testing):

Examinees may draw attention to sections of text by marking them with a color. Examinees with visual or reading impairments who benefit from using a controlled color method for focusing, in everyday or academic settings. Highlighters may not be used on the answer document, as it may interfere with the scoring equipment.

Universal Feature:

The highlighter is a digital tool for marking desired text, item questions, and item answers or parts of them with a color.

Universal Feature:

This is a digital tool for marking desired text, item questions, item answers, or parts of these with a color. Highlighted text remains available throughout each test segment.

Universal Feature:

A digital tool for marking desired text, item questions, item answers, or parts of these with a color. Highlighted text remains available throughout each test segment.

Accessibility Feature (Universal Feature):

Student uses various markup tools to assist in reading, recalling, and/or emphasizing text, and to flag items for later review. Markup tools can include highlighters, templates, place markers, masking devices, colored overlays, reading guide rulers, blank straight edges or onscreen tools to follow along with each line of text, electronic bookmarking tools.

The student electronically highlights text as needed to recall and/or emphasize. The student has the option to remove highlighting over text. The highlighter color option will change depending on the color contrast option selected.

Accommodation:

A student may use a highlighter to highlight key words or phrases in directions, passages, prompts, items, and answer choices. If a highlighter is used on a scannable document and the ink is visible on a response area (e.g., writing response, answer bubble), responses must be transcribed into a replacement document.

Universal Feature:

The student uses this digital feature for marking desired text, items, or response options with a color.

Universal Feature:

A digital tool for marking desired text, item questions, item answers, or parts of these with a color. Highlighted text remains available throughout each test segment.

Universal Feature:

A digital tool for marking desired text, item questions, item answers, or parts of these with a color. Highlighted text remains available throughout each test segment.

Accessibility Feature (Universal Feature):

Computer-based testing: The student electronically highlights text as needed to recall and/or emphasize. The student has the option to remove highlighting over text. The highlighter color option will change depending on the color contrast option selected.

Paper-based testing: The student highlights text as needed to recall and/or emphasize. Multiple colors may be provided.

Universal Feature:

Computer-based testing: Used for marking desired text, item questions, and item answers in transparent colors on the screen.

Paper-based testing: Students can mark desired text, item questions, item answers, or parts of these with a transparent color.

Universal Feature:

In the online system, the highlighter feature allows the student to highlight a word or group of words. The student has the option to remove highlighting and select from two highlight color options that change depending on the color contrast option selected. Students who are taking the paper form may be provided a physical highlighter.

Universal Feature:

Allows students to select text on the screen and highlight the selected text with a pink background.

Universal Feature:

Paper-based testing: Students may be provided with a non-carbon-based yellow highlighter.

Computer-based testing: This is the online tool used to highlight a portion of an item, text, or a graphic. The highlighter tool can be used virtually anywhere within the item to highlight passage text, item text, answer options, portions of graphics and images, and text within images.

Universal Feature:

A highlighter, like other visual organizers, is a way for a student to maintain his or her focus on specific sections of an assignment or on an assessment. Visual organizers may also be helpful to students who have difficulty with the acquisition, retrieval, or organization of learning. The use of such tools or strategies should be student initiated, rather than teacher initiated. The student electronically highlights text as needed to recall and/or emphasize. The student has the option to remove highlighting over text. The highlighter color option will change depending on the color contrast option selected.

Universal Feature:

Computer-based testing: Four highlighter colors are offered: blue, pink, green, and orange.

Paper-based testing: Colored highlighters and/or colored pencils may be used by students taking paper-based tests.

Universal Feature:

Depending on the mode of the assessment being administered (online or paper/pencil), the highlighter may be a digital or physical tool for marking desired text, item questions, or item answers with a yellow color. When taking the paper/pencil assessment, students may use a non-embedded highlighter only in the test booklets and never on the answer documents. This tool may help students retain focus on a particular segment of text, or can be used to mark specific text in order to return to it later.

Universal Feature:

Student uses provided materials while testing; these should be provided to students who have used them in instructional or other assessment settings.

Universal Feature:

Use of highlighter by student in test booklet.

Universal Feature:

The INSIGHT student platform provides all students access to an embedded highlighter for marking desired text. All students may have access to a physical highlighter.

Universal Feature:

A digital tool for marking desired text, item questions, item answers, or parts of these with a color. Highlighted text remains available throughout each test segment.

Universal Feature:

The student uses this feature for marking desired text, items, or response options with a color.

Universal Feature:

A digital tool for marking desired text, item questions, item answers, or parts of these with a color. Highlighted text remains available throughout each test segment.

Universal Feature:

A digital tool marking desired text, items, answers, or parts of the above with a color. Highlighted text remains highlighted through a pause. Students may use this embedded tool to help visually organize information.

Accessibility Feature (Universal Feature):

The student electronically highlights text as needed to recall and/or emphasize. The student has the option to remove highlighting over text. The highlighter color option will change depending on the color contrast option selected.

Accommodation:

Student highlights key words in questions.

Universal Feature:

The learner uses this digital or physical tool for marking desired text, items, or response options with a color.

Universal Feature:

The student highlights text. By default, the highlighter tool is turned on. The test administrator can adjust this setting in the Test Information Distribution Engine (TIDE) and the Test Administrator Interface.

Universal Feature:

A digital tool for marking desired text, item questions, item answers, or parts of these with a color.

Universal Feature:

The following online tools are available to all online test-takers as part of the test format as allowable for each section: Pointer, cross-off pencil, highlighter, sticky note, magnifier, line guide, calculator, graphing tool, ruler, formula sheets & conversion tables

Universal Feature:

Embedded: The embedded highlighter tool is used for marking desired text with a color. Highlighted text remains available through the test segment. Defaulted to ON for all students.

Non-embedded: Student uses their preferred writing tool(s) to mark specific text in the test booklet. Highlighters, highlighter tape, page flags, and reading guides are all acceptable.

Universal Feature:

A tool that the student can use to mark specific text in the test booklet. Online test: student can select highlighter tool from menu. Paper/pencil: student may use their preferred writing tool to mark specific test in test booklet only, not on the answer document.

Universal Feature:

A digital tool for marking desired text, item questions, item answers, or parts of these with a color. Highlighted text remains available throughout each test segment.

Accessibility Feature (Designated Feature):

Students may use a highlighter to highlight text in a passage or item in their test book as needed to recall and/or emphasize. Highlighter must be yellow.

Universal Feature:

Making the following assistive tools available: various types of highlighters, colored pencils, or any other tool that can be used to focus attention on text

Universal Feature (Online Testing), Accommodation (Paper Testing):

Highlighting, providing visual cues, and using markers, arrows, and stickers, may draw attention to key words or content in instruction. These resources may or may not be applicable or available for assessments.

Universal Feature:

A digital tool for marking desired text, item questions, item answers, or parts of these with a color. Highlighted text remains available throughout each test segment.

Accommodation:

Students may be provided additional (3 or more) writing implements such as, but not limited to: highlighters, markers, colored pens, colored pencils, etc. The student may use the additional markers, highlighters, colored pencils, and/or pens in the test booklet or on his/her scratch paper; however, these items must not be used anywhere on the student’s answer document. The additional markers, highlighters, colored pens, and/or pencils must be provided to the student at the beginning of the session and must be used independently without assistance from the examiner.

Universal Feature:

Allows the student to mark desired text, item questions, item answers, or parts of these with a color. Highlighted text remains available throughout each test segment.

Universal Feature:

A digital tool for marking desired text, item questions, item answers, or parts of these with a color. Highlighted text remains available throughout each test segment.

Universal Feature (Computer-Based Testing), Designated Feature (Paper-Based Testing):

Examinees may draw attention to sections of text by marking them with a color. Examinees with visual or reading impairments who benefit from using a controlled color method for focusing, in everyday or academic settings. Highlighters may not be used on the answer document, as it may interfere with the scoring equipment.

Universal Feature:

A digital tool for marking desired text, item questions, item answers, or parts of these with a color.