Test Accessibility: Item Reviews and Lessons Learned from Four State Assessments

Table 6

Percentages of items at each overall accessibility level, by content area and state.

State	Content area	1; (inaccessible for many test takers)	2; (maximally accessible for some test takers)	3; (maximally accessible for most test takers)	4; (maximally accessible for nearly all test takers)
State A	Across (n = 159)	2% (n = 3)	27% (n = 43)	58% (n = 93)	13% (n = 20)
	Language Arts (n = 67)	0% (n = 0)	31% (n = 21)	55% (n = 37)	13% (n = 9)
	Mathematics (n = 50)	4% (n = 2)	22% (n = 11)	64% (n = 32)	10% (n = 5)
	Social Studies (n = 21)	5% (n = 1)	24% (n = 5)	52% (n = 11)	19% (n = 4)
	Science (n = 21)	0% (n = 0)	29% (n = 6)	62% (n = 13)	10% (n = 2)
State B	Science (n = 60)	8% (n = 5)	23% (n = 14)	63% (n = 38)	5% (n = 3)
State C	Science (n = 101)	3% (n = 3)	24% (n = 24)	73% (n = 73)	1% (n = 1)
State D	Science (n = 100)	0% (n = 0)	50% (n = 50)	50% (n = 50)	0% (n = 0)