[eal-bilingual] Fair Test?

We've discovered some terrible marking in our KS2 papers - 10 marks
difference in one science paper - with the majority the result of scores on
pages being incorrectly totalled up.  However, our English marks buck the
trend Stuart talks of, even for our EAL pupils.

Alison

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Dear Stuart,

I'm very glad you have brought this up! My son has just received his school
report (KS2) and his writing test result is a full number lower than his
teacher's assessment. Initially we thought that this might have been a
misprint, but now have second thoughts after reading your post. His name is
not Anglo-Saxon. His reading and maths levels were almost identical between
the teacher's assessment and the test results.

Regards,

Mirela Dumic

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   1. Fair Test? (stuart.scott)

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For those of you fortunate? enough to have test papers back (probably
more likely at the moment for KS2 than 3), were there any surprises
when compared to teacher assessment?

The KS2 writing (although the reading is above expectation) results
seem to have discriminated against EMA pupils;
by name - so if you have an English sounding name you do better (at
handwriting!) than if your name happens to look foreign. This may just
be racism on the part of one marker, but I'd be interested to know
whether others have picked this up.

Many potential level five writers marked at 4c and below. We have
started to analyse the criteria for the shorter piece and it  is
definitely biased against EMA pupils. Will do the same for the long
piece today. What are your views?

Judging from the articles in this week's TES the KS3 marking may be
even worse. It may be that the inconsistency and unmoderated marking
may not throw up the same results for you. We shall be looking at this
more carefully and probably contemplating appeals. i understand that
some LAs have already got together and have started the process.

Best wishes,

Stuart

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