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Download full textAbedi, Jamal; Leon, Seth; Kao, Jenny; Bayley, Robert; Ewers, Nancy; Herman, Joan; Mundhenk, Kimberly – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of reading test items that may differentially impede the performance of students with disabilities. The findings suggest that there are certain revisions that can be done on current assessments to make them more accessible for students with disabilities. Features such as words per page,…
Descriptors: Test Items, Reading Tests, Disabilities, Student Evaluation
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Direct linkAbedi, Jamal; Kao, Jenny C.; Leon, Seth; Mastergeorge, Ann M.; Sullivan, Lisa; Herman, Joan; Pope, Rita – Applied Measurement in Education, 2010
This study explores factors that affect the accessibility of reading comprehension assessments for students with disabilities in grade 8 public school classrooms. The study consisted of assessing students using reading comprehension passages that were broken down into shorter "segments" or "chunks" in order to assess the…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Educational Strategies, Recall (Psychology), Reading Comprehension
Abedi, Jamal; Kao, Jenny C.; Leon, Seth; Sullivan, Lisa; Herman, Joan L.; Pope, Rita; Nambiar, Veena; Mastergeorge, Ann M. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2008
This study sought to explore factors that affect the accessibility of reading comprehension assessments for students with disabilities. The study consisted of testing students using reading comprehension passages that were broken down into shorter "segments" or "chunks." The results of the segmenting study indicated that: (a)…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Disabilities, Reading Tests, Test Reliability
Abedi, Jamal; Courtney, Mary; Leon, Seth; Kao, Jenny; Azzam, Tarek – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2006
This study investigated the interactive effects between students' opportunity to learn (OTL) in the classroom, two language-related testing accommodations, and English language learner (ELL) students and other students of varying language proficiency, and how these variables impact mathematics performance. Hierarchical linear modeling was employed…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 8, Second Language Learning, Grade 7
