[senco-forum] Access arrangements

I'm going on the 'access arrangements' course in Stafford on Thursday. Watch
this space!
I'll probably be totally confuse too.
Well actually I'll be OK unless they show me a video 'cus I always go to
sleep in them on courses. It's a reflex action!
 Chris :-)
...Can we ask Jason to let us have smileys do you think?

-----Original Message-----
From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Gaynor Dunkley
Sent: 13 November 2007 20:33
To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: [senco-forum] Access arrangements

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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