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TonyGosling
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 Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:31 pm Post subject: US firm marking UK exams crashes and burns |
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Check this NWO PR child strangler out - wonder who he has passed all those child psycological profiles on to?
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Teens marking SAT papers in Britain
18 Jul 2008
LONDON: The fate of British students who took this year's Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is in jeopardy with revelations that teenagers who themselves are yet to pass their examinations have been employed to mark the answer papers.
Barry Sheerman, the Labour chairman of the Commons Schools Committee, has disclosed that he had been given evidence that the company entrusted with the marking of SAT answer sheets was employing pre-university students to mark papers, the Telegraph reported on Thursday......
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Teens_marking_SAT_papers_in_U K/articleshow/3247143.cms |
Sats marking firm 'sorry'
ETS Vice President Andy Latham
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7514725.stm
Watchdog warns 1m Sats results could be scrapped
· Ofqual assessing if marking is faulty
· Two major exam boards reveal concerns over tests
What went wrong?
Markers
Markers dropped out in their thousands complaining of badly organised training days, crashed websites, and helplines that no one answered.
Technical problems
The data inputting system was faulty leading to large numbers of students being marked absent when they sat the exams. Jane Goodwin, headteacher at Knowsley junior school, Oldham, said: "We have not received the maths Sats results for 70 children. I've had to spend hours hassling ETS to find out what's going on and finally, after three days, they are telling me our papers were returned by the examiner unmarked. How that happened is anyone's guess."
The system changed
English results were demanded quicker. The requirement was dropped that all papers graded just below the borderline between two marks are looked at again. This could lead to a two percentage point drop in the results this year.
Erratic marking
One headteacher released two examples of work which had received the same mark. One read: "Quickly it became apparent that Pup was a fantastic rider: a complete natural." The other read: "If he wasent doing enthing els hes help his uncel Herry at the funfair during the day.s" Ofqual insists there is no evidence of this being any worse than last year.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2291801,00.html
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All in favour of scrapping SATs say "I"
"I"
Motion carried
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