Exploring alternative assessments for signing deaf candidates

Rachel O'Neill; Audrey Cameron; Eileen Burns; Gary Quinn

doi:10.1002/pits.22326

Exploring alternative assessments for signing deaf candidates

Rachel O'Neill^*, Audrey Cameron, Eileen Burns, Gary Quinn

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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 (BSL) as an 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 standardised technical terms in signed languages, the right to respond in sign, and candidate choice.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-18
Number of pages	18
Journal	Psychology in the Schools
Early online date	15 Nov 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22326
Publication status	Published - 15 Nov 2019

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assessment
BSL
ASL
examinations
language policy
deaf

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: O'Neill, R, Cameron, A, Burns, E, Quinn, G. Exploring alternative assessments for signing deaf candidates. Psychol Schs. 2019; 1– 18. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22326, which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pits.22326. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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- Institute for Education, Teaching & Leadership
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