Integrating actual time usage into the assessment of examination time extensions provided to disabled college engineering students

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2020, Pages 988-1000

  Golan, Maya ^a   Singer, Gonen ^b   Rabin, Neta ^c   Kleper, Dvir ^d  

^a AFEKA TEL AVIV ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d National Institute for Testing and Evaluation Jerusalem   (Israel)

Author keywords

accommodations; actual examination time usage; Learning disabilities; time extension

Indexed keywords

EID: 85078427512     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2020.1717434     Document Type: Article

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