Job Description: Student Accessibility Services seeks to hire graduate students to read and/or scribe tests to students with disabilities. Readers and scribes are an essential in implementing testing accommodations for students working with SAS and additionally help ensure academic integrity is maintained and that testing conditions are appropriately administered during the exam.
Reader: A reader is someone that reads only the questions as written on the exam. A reader does not reword questions, offer explanations or definitions.
Ability to read aloud clearly, at a normal pace and with good pronunciation.
Familiarity with the words, terms, symbols or signs that are specific to the test content.
Ability to follow instructions to read, verbatim, only the words in the test book or on the screen, without changing or adding words or assisting the test taker in selecting a response.
Willingness to be patient and to understand that the test taker may need many test questions repeated several times.
Scribe: A scribe only records exactly what is dictated to them verbally by the student. A scribe does not make any additions or alterations of their own.
Clear handwriting
Willingness to be patient and to understand that the test taker may need extra time and many test questions may take some time to complete.
At all times, the scribe must write only what the test taker dictates.
The scribe may not prompt the test taker in a way that would result in a better essay or response.
However, the scribe may respond to questions such as, “Where are we on my outline?” by pointing to and reading the outline.
The scribe should ask for the spelling of commonly misspelled words and homonyms such as to, two and too; or there, their and they’re. If the test taker uses a word that is unfamiliar to the scribe or a word that the scribe does not know how to spell, the scribe should ask the test taker to spell it.
Required:
Must be a graduate student and must be enrolled in classes at UMaine Orono.
Must be eligible to work in the United States.
Must be dependable and have flexible hours.
Qualifications:
Ability to read aloud comfortably and pronounce multisyllabic words.
Legible handwriting – for scribe.
Ability to work with the test taker comfortably and compatibly without creating unnecessary pressure or unrealistic expectations.
Payrate: $15.10 per hour
Interested applicants should apply for the position through Career Link.
Please contact Amy Sturgeon at Amy.M.Sturgeo@maine.edu for questions.
