[senco-forum] Access arrangements

I think the important principles to keep in mind here are that access arrangements are about levelling the playingfield  -and no pupil should be given an unfair advantage. 

  I think this is sometimes being forgotten in all the madness.

  Julie 

Gaynor Dunkley <gadunkley at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

Hi eveyone

Hoping that colleagues can enlighten me. My exams officer has just been on new access arrangements course and she has come back saying that the boards are now proposing that for certain students text in exam papers can not only be read to the student it can also be explained. 

The people running the course were unable to tell her what the "certain types "of students were and how the students would be assessed. 

The text that can be explained is not subject specific text but carrier text eg "compare and contrast the qualities of two named solutions" you could explain the compare and contrast but nothing about the solutions. She has also been told that when this arrangement is given that the reader and the invigilator must pre open the paper and discuss exactly what text they are going to explain if needs be and that the readers will have to do an online training course before they can do this. 

It is because of these new arrangements that the latest version on the exams access arrangements book has not yet been issued. 

Have any of you heard about this on the grapevine? 

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Gaynor 

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