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Juuso Henrik Nieminen; Sarah Elaine Eaton – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
Assessment accommodations are used globally in higher education systems to ensure that students with disabilities can participate fairly in assessment. Even though assessment accommodations are supposed to promote access, not success, they are commonly portrayed as potentially being "cheating" in that they provide certain students with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Testing Accommodations, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
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Tobias Haug; Franz Holzknecht; Wolfgang Mann – Language Education & Assessment, 2024
This study investigated through an online survey how sign language practitioners changed their sign language assessment practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey consisted of five sections and 29 questions overall. It was provided in written English and German as well as in International Sign and was administered online between October…
Descriptors: Sign Language, COVID-19, Pandemics, Evaluation
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Saatcioglu, Argun; Skrtic, Thomas M.; DeLuca, Thomas A. – Teachers College Record, 2016
The overuse of test accommodations (e.g., test readers, extra time, and calculators) for students with disabilities is a potential means of gaming the accountability system because it can inflate proficiency gains. However, no direct evidence on this problem exists, and findings on whether or not test accommodations improve test scores are…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Middle School Students, Grade 8