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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
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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
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