Test Lab and Note Use Accommodations

Phone: 304-473-8560

Email: testlab@wvwc.edu

The Test Lab serves the campus in three ways:

  1. Students with diagnosed learning disabilities may request the use of the Test Lab for the provision of extended time and other special testing accommodations that are indicated by documentation submitted by the student. The Comprehensive Advisor, who works closely with the student, will review this documentation and determine appropriate testing accommodations.
  2. Students currently enrolled in the College’s English as a Second Language (ESL) Program are eligible to use the Test Lab for quizzes, tests, and exams.
  3. By special request, a member of Wesleyan’s faculty may arrange for a student to take a make-up test to be proctored by the Lab Coordinator on duty.

Regular Semester Hours*

Monday – Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Access to Testing Accommodations

Monday – Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Access to Technology and Notes

Monday –Friday  8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

*Hours are subject to modification during holidays, final exams, and campus events.

Special note for your information and the protection of your belongings:
  • Personal dictionaries are permitted in the Test Lab only with prior permission from the professor. This permission must be written or communicated directly to the Test Lab Supervisor or Coordinator.
  • Since personal belongings are not permitted inside the lab while you are testing, we have provided storage shelves outside of the Test Lab.
  • We ask that you leave your valuable items locked in your dorm room. The Test Lab and West Virginia Wesleyan College cannot protect your belongings while you are testing.
  • Test Lab Policies

    It is very important that students follow procedures listed below in order to utilize the Test Lab for accommodations, students will not be permitted to take a test in the Test Lab without an appointment.

    • Students should call the Test Lab (304-473-8560) between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. (hours subject to change) to schedule an appointment a minimum of one day in advance of the desired test day. Tests are to be taken at the same time the class
      meets, unless the faculty member has given prior approval for the exam to be
      administered at an alternate time. The faculty member must provide approval directly to the Test Lab Supervisor or Coordinator. If a student has permission to begin early, they
      will not be permitted to leave the Test Lab until after the scheduled class has ended.
      Make-up exams can be scheduled at an indicated time by the faculty member.
    • No tests will begin after 3:00 p.m. in the Test Lab.
    • Students’ personal belongings must be left on the bookcase outside of the Test Lab prior to receiving the test. (including, without limitation, all notes, notebooks, textbooks, and book bags). The only items permitted in the Test Lab during a
      testing period are a pen/pencil & translator, if permitted and provided by the Test Lab staff.
    • Permission for the use of any additional testing materials must be provided, prior to the exam, by the faculty member..
    •  Cell phones, earbuds, smart watches, and other technology items are required to be left in numbered bins in the Test Lab.
    •  The Test Lab monitors and records students with the onsite HISEEU camera
      system.
    • Unless permitted under documented accommodations, there are no breaks during the testing session. Students should use the restroom prior to beginning the test.
    • When notes are allowed for testing, they will be returned to the faculty member
      along with the test, unless the faculty member stipulates otherwise.
    • Any student caught cheating or in possession of a personal electronic device loses the privilege of completing the test in the Test Lab. The test session will stop immediately, and the Lab Supervisor will collect the test. The test will be returned to the professor, indicating the reason for the incomplete test, and theTest Lab will notify the Associate Provost. The student will also be required to meet with either the Learning Center Director or the Test Lab Supervisor.
    • The Test Lab Supervisor arranges for the confidential return of the test to the faculty member.
  • Note Use Accommodations*

    The notes on file in the Test Lab are to be used by three groups of students:

    1. Students with diagnosed learning disabilities and attention difficulties who are enrolled in the Learning Center
    2. Students enrolled in the ESL Program (when notes are available because a student with a diagnosed learning disability previously requested them for the semester)
    3. Students that have medical documentation of an extended illness or serious injury

    Note-Taking System

    Our note-taking system may be used by students with diagnosed learning disabilities when indicated by educational documentation on file and deemed appropriate by the student’s Comprehensive Advisor. Approved students may request a note-taker by contacting the Test Lab Supervisor or Coordinator (Haymond 202) and completing the short note request form. It is important that the student request notes early in the semester; the Test Lab staff members need sufficient time to process student requests.

    The following conditions apply to the note-taking service:

    • The student is expected to use the notes on a regular basis and as soon as possible after class. Notes are discontinued if the student is not using them on a weekly basis. It is the student’s responsibility to cancel the notes if they are no longer needed.
    • Notes are used in Haymond 202 in the Test Lab.
    • Notes can be photocopied if specified by medical/educational documentation. Most often, the students rework class notes by comparing them with those of the note-taker.
    • Notes are kept on reserve for one week at a time. In special circumstances, notes from previous weeks will be retrieved for student use.

    *Students will have access to notes Monday – Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.