When a teacher or school system needs to have a commercially available test adapted into large type or braille, certain guidelines must be followed. This article describes the recent adaptation of the Stanford Achievement Test (Series 8) by the American Printing House for the Blind. It presents the steps that are usually pursued in such a process and the guidelines that must be considered in adapting typical standardized tests.
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HayesS.P. (1952). Adaptation of standard tests: Headaches of the test-maker [Summary]. In Procedures of the First Regional Conference on Mental Measurements of the Blind (pp. 11–14). Watertown, MA: Perkins Institution.
