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Download full textMoore, Joann; Huang, Chi-Yu; Huh, Noo-Ree; Li, Tianli; Camara, Wayne – ACT, Inc., 2018
In the fall of 2017, ACT began providing a limited number of supports (also known as accommodations) to English Learner (EL) students in the US taking the ACT® test. The goal of the supports is to remove construct-irrelevant variance in students' scores related to limited English proficiency and allow students to more accurately demonstrate their…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Testing Accommodations, College Entrance Examinations, Evaluation Research
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Direct linkGrodsky, Eric – Social Forces, 2010
Buchmann, Condron and Roscigno argue in their article, "Shadow Education, American Style: Test Preparation, the SAT and College Enrollment," that the activities in which students engage to prepare for college entrance exams are forms of shadow education, a means by which more advantaged parents seek to pass their privileged status along…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Criticism, Research Problems, Test Preparation
