Assessment Accommodations for Students with Autism Spectrum
Disorder in Higher Education

Thanyasinee Laosum¹

¹thanyasinee.lao@stou.ac.th

Abstract

Assessment accommodations for students with autism spectrum disorder in higher education are academic service supposed to be provided by higher education institutes enrolling students with autism spectrum disorder. This kind of service will help minimize their difficulties during the measurement. The students can therefore demonstrate their possessed knowledge and competency with no obstacles due to their individual learning difficulty. The assessment accommodations provided shall be in these 3 forms; 1) the test itself, 2) the preparation prior to the test, and 3) the test administration. The test refers to the test content, format, difficulty level, proof reading, number of items, and test aggregation. The preparation prior to the test refers to the preparation of physical environment for the test participants. The test administration refers to the reading of instruction and test items to the test participant, the provision of assistant in writing the answer, the provision of assistant in editing the answers of the participant without any modification to the original idea of the student, the extension of testing time, the allocation for intermission, and the appropriate reminding about time remaining for the test. These assessment accommodations help improve the performance of students with autism spectrum disorder in higher education. Some autism students may need only one form of assessment accommodations whereas the others need all. The test administrator should chose the form that best fit the difficulties of the student.

Keywords:Assessment Accommodations, Learning Assessment,
   Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Higher Education