Mapping study for the integration of accommodations for students with Special Education
Needs (SEN) in PISA
Due to various technical and methodological challenges, PISA has to date offered only
limited accommodations for students with special education needs (SEN). As a result,
some students are currently excluded from the PISA target population at the sampling
stage, and in some countries, exclusion rates are growing as more and more students
are recognized as having disabilities that require testing accommodations. This practice
in PISA contrasts with testing standards in many countries which call for the inclusion
of students with SEN in order to give every student the right to demonstrate their
skills and to generate information that represents all students. In order to take
stock of the situation in terms of exclusions from PISA and accommodations already
offered in national evaluations, we conducted a survey of PISA-participating countries
and economies. This paper presents results from this survey and reviews the literature
on effective accommodations in order to identify the priority needs to address in
PISA, as well as promising accommodations that PISA could integrate to support these
needs.
Available from March 08, 2024
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