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Pupils' Perceptions on Accommodations in Multilingual Assessment of Science
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De Backer, Fauve; Baele, Judith; van Avermaet, Piet; Slembrouck, Stef – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
One of the greatest assessment challenges is providing fair and valid tests for multilingual pupils. Since language proficiency impacts their results on content tests, accommodations are suggested to help in solving the validity issues. In this mixed methods study on multilingual assessment, pupils were divided according to three testing…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Testing Accommodations, Student Attitudes, Language Proficiency
Are Fourth and Fifth Grade Children Better Scientists through Metacognitive Learning?
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Dejonckheere, Peter; Van de Keere, Kristof; Tallir, Isabel – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2011
Introduction: A way to find out how scientific thinking in children develops is to focus on the processes that are involved. As such, scientific thinking can be seen as a particular form of problem solving in which the problem solver selects a strategy from the space of possible experiments that can reveal the cause of an event. Notwithstanding…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Grade 5, Computer Uses in Education, Grade 4