For our class midterm, I am giving the class an essay exam that I expect will take most students four or five hours to complete, and I am giving them the prompt in this week’s class meeting, and requiring them to submit their responses before next week’s class meeting. Since students without accommodations will have seven days to complete the exam, am I required to give students with 150% time accommodations ten days to complete the exam?
Generally speaking, the 150% time accommodation for timed exams and quizzes applies to exams with a short window to complete, typically exams with less than a 24-48 hour window for completion. It would be fair to let your students know that you wrote the exam expecting that it would take students without accommodations four to five hours to complete, and that the class should plan their writing time accordingly over the course of the week to ensure that they meet 7-day deadline to hand in their work.
If a student has accommodations for...