Accessible Assessment and Pedagogies

A practical guide for pre- and in-service teachers, this book demonstrates the benefits of developing accessible assessment and pedagogies to ensure that students with disabilities and learning difficulties are not left behind. What if there were some simple things schools could do to make assessment more accessible and easier for all students to understand, from the outset? This book presents robust evidence from world-leading collaborative research in three large secondary schools that proactively designing classroom instruction and assessment for accessibility makes a positive difference for students and teachers. Evidence from eye-tracking technology, summative assessment results, classroom observations and interviews with students and teachers points to what can change and why these changes are important. Written in the same plain language and humour as its best-selling sister, Inclusive Education for the 21st Century: Theory, Policy and Practice, this new book explains accessibility and why it matters, and details processes for designing out barriers in summative assessment. Stories from partner schools about how they led these gains across the whole school make this an accessibility playbook to drive whole school and system reform. Teachers, Heads of Department, Speech Pathologists and other professionals will find this text a rich source of professional learning for individuals and teams with discussion prompts for leaders and teachers at the end of each chapter.