Are re-testing opportunities available for English language learners?
With graduation tests there is often pressure to increase the number of opportunities for students to take the test, and to move the retest times closer to the time of instruction. If field test items are included in each administration of the test, there may be pressure to remove these items when students retake the test, thereby resulting in shorter forms of the test. How re-testing interacts with issues that accompany learning English should be considered. Re-testing must be available to these students just as often as it is to other students. When accommodations are available to English language learners, they also must be provided during re-testing. Some states have found that decision makers request additional accommodations with each re-take, under the belief that more accommodations will give students the benefit needed to pass (or, perhaps, with the recognition that certain accommodations really are needed even though the student hoped not to need them). Changing rules about t
