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Publication details [#58930]

Schissel, Jamie L. 2014. Classroom use of test accommodations: issues of access, equity, and conflation. Current Issues in Language Planning 15 (3) : 282–295.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | language proficiency | multilingualism | school | testing

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Using data from two different multilingual US schools, this paper explores classroom use of test accommodations as a tool fostering enhanced assessment access, yet possibly biased, mainly when this practice blends emergent bilingual with disabled students.