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Exploring alternative assessments for signing deaf candidates.
- Source :
- Psychology in the Schools; Mar2020, Vol. 57 Issue 3, p344-361, 18p, 2 Color Photographs, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Attitudes to sign languages or language policies are often not overtly discussed or recorded but they influence deaf young people's educational opportunities and outcomes. Two qualitative studies from Scotland investigate the provision of British Sign Language as accommodation in public examinations. The first explores the views of deaf pupils and staff about the official system for face‐to‐face interpretation of exam papers. The second investigates a centrally translated digital paper with embedded video questions. Discussion focuses on contrasts between the USA and UK approaches to accommodations, raising issues of standardized technical terms in signed languages, the right to respond in sign, and candidate choice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00333085
- Volume :
- 57
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Psychology in the Schools
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 141528301
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22326