The Trends and Practices of Accommodating Students with Disabilities in National examinations of Ethiopia
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2016-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to assess the trends and practice of national exam
accommodation
for
students
with
disabilities
and
suggest
the
necessary
recommendations. The study used descriptive design as a research design to explain the
current trends and practices of national exam accommodation To this end, 11 officials at
National Educational Assessment and Examination Agency and 127 students with
disabilities were selected using purposive and random sampling respectively.
With
regard to data gathering instrument, questionnaire, semi structured interview and FGD
were used to collect data from the participants. Accordingly, the data obtained from
different sources were analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The
result obtained revealed that the existing practice of national exam accommodation for
students with disabilities in our country is not up to the standard. The Agency does not
give much attention for the issue of students with disabilities in national examination
especially for students with hearing impairments and physical disabilities, The extended
time accommodation provided for students with visual impairments and hearing
impairments are not in legalized way there is no specific time to be added that is agreed
and ratified by experts in Agency and most of the time it depends on the will of the
invigilators and supervisors at the exam centers, There is no national policy
implementation guideline that deals about accommodation of national examination for
students with disabilities and the existing manual also does not address the issue of all
students with disabilities indeed, it deals about the compensation subject for students
with visual impairments, and there are many challenges that hinder the implementation
of national exam accommodation for students with disabilities among these absence of
clearly formulated policy implementation guideline regarding exam accommodation is
the big challenge that hinders the implementation of national exam accommodation for
students with disabilities Finally, possible recommendation had been forwarded based on
the findings
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Disabilities in National examinations of Ethiopia