NCEO Reports: A Summary of the Research on the Effects of K–12 Test Accommodations: 2021 (#438)

Reprint permission request

Part of the NCEO Reports series.

Author(s)

Chris Rogers, Virginia A Ressa, Sheryl Lazarus, Martha L Thurlow, Ghada Swadek

PDF

Cost:

Free

Description

This report provides an update on the state of the research on testing accommodations. Previous reports by the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) have covered research published since 1999. In this report, we summarize the research published in 2021. During 2021, 12 research studies addressed testing accommodations in the U.S. K–12 education system. The research published in the year 2021 addressed several critical areas such as the effects of accommodations on student performance and educators’ knowledge, perceptions, and implementation practices regarding accommodations. The research also identifies emerging trends such as the use of paper-and-pencil accommodations in digital environments, the role of individualized accommodations, and the increased research in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) content areas.

Details

Date

February 2023 

Type

Report 

Edition

Number 438

Publisher

National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)