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A Summary of the Research on the Effects of K-12 Test Accommodations: 2022. NCEO Report 444
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Virginia A. Ressa; Sheryl S. Lazarus; Christopher M. Rogers; Kascinda Fleming; Mari Quanbeck – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2024
Research on test accommodations provides valuable information that informs policy and practice. This report presents a synthesis of the research literature published in 2022 on testing accommodations for U.S. elementary and secondary students (K-12). The National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) has reported on accommodations research since…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Testing Accommodations, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Teacher Attitudes
Measuring Private Tutoring: Methodological Lessons and Insights from Francophone Africa
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Mark Bray; Abdel Rahamane Baba-Moussa – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
This paper examines and builds on an earlier contribution to this journal focusing on private supplementary tutoring -- widely known as shadow education -- in Francophone West and Central Africa. Drawing on wider literature about research methods in this domain, it examines the basis for the numerical estimates presented in the original article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Supplementary Education, Private Education
Beyond Performance Results: Analyzing the Informational and Developmental Potentials of Standardized Mathematics Tests
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di Martino, Pietro; Baccaglini-Frank, Anna – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2017
In this article, we discuss the potential of a critical approach to standardized tests and their results. In particular, we explore and discuss this potential not only for the assessment of students' mathematical competence, but also for teachers' professional development. We identify and describe two kinds of potential: the Informational…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Mathematics Tests, Faculty Development, Evaluation Utilization
Getting Dumber in School?
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Bracey, Gerald W. – Principal Leadership, 2001
Factors contributing to American students' declining scores on the TIMSS (Third International Mathematics and Science Study) between grades 4 and 8 include textbook size and U.S. educators' traditional views of middle-school years. Bad data probably invalidate claims about the grade 8 to 12 decline. International reading scores favor Americans.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Education, Data Interpretation, Elementary Secondary Education