Thematic Research Report
Accessible Assessment Arrangements: Standards for Fair Participation
A global standards-interpretive study of disability-related barriers, assessment validity, reasonable accommodation and educational remedy
Accessible assessment arrangements are changes to the conditions in which a learner demonstrates knowledge, skill or competence so that a disability-related barrier does not decide the result. They are neither discretionary favours nor automatic reductions of the educational standard. The governing task is to preserve fair participation while protecting the construct the assessment is intended to measure. That task now stands within the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which entered into force on 3 May 2008. Its provisions on equality, reasonable accommodation, accessibility and inclusive education give direct international importance to the design and administration of assessment. For accessible assessment, the executive summary evidence must show whether the intended construct is assessed without an avoidable participation barrier. Fair assessment requires the participation barrier, intended construct, effective adjustment and review route to be stated together.
- Research category
- Standards Interpretation
- Report archetype
- Standards Interpretive Study
- Geographic scope
- Global