Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Assessment of Disabled Students in
Higher Education
Konur, O. (2002) Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and assessment of
disabled students in higher education. Paper presented at Second UK & US
Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), 23-24 May
2002, London, UK. [On-line]. http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~cx639/sotl2.htm
(Web version, 4,600 words, 25 May 2002).
Abstract
This paper was presented in a changing time. The underlying AAHE paper was
published in April 2002 and the 'less favourable treatment duty" of the
Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA) (2001) is becoming
operational by September 2002. The academic and professional discussion
lists in the global scale (such as Dis-Forum, DSSHE-L, Austed-List,
Tech-Dis) continue to include queries on whether 'reasonable adjustments'
should be made for the examination of disabled students and what form of
adjustments should be made. In the mean time HEFCE, a UK funding body, has
started a new round of its disability initiatives. A first ever legal case
under the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) regarding disabled students
reached the appellate court level in General Medical Council v. Cox (2002)
EAT decided on 22 March 2002. A series of legal cases on the academic
assessment of disabled students in higher education and in professional
training have been coming up to the federal courts over a quarter of century
in the US. Similarly a series of cases on the academic assessment of
students under the discrimination law on race and gender grounds have
reached the courts and tribunals in the UK during the same period. This
paper complements three other working papers: the AAHE paper, the project
proposal on the academic assessment of disabled students in higher
education, and the research brief on the GMC case.
Key words: Disabled students, assessment, higher education, Disability
Discrimination Act (1995), Americans with Disabilities Act (1990),
reasonable assessment adjustments, professional ethics, scholarship of
teaching and learning, public policy, professional ethics, General Medical
Council v. Cox (2002) EAT.
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Ozcan KONUR
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