Suggest that you get hold of a copy of the Quality Assurance Agency's Code
of Practice for the assurance of academic quality and standards in HE.
Section 3: Students with disabilities, Precept 13 is about examination,
assessment and progression. Loretto
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> Sent: 29 November 2000 18:26
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> Subject: Re: Exam Papers for Visually Impaired Students - simple
> solution.
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> I have been told that I must use the A4 answer books because only the
> provided 'official' answer books may be used. We have enquired about
> enlarged ones, as I get enlarged papers, but have been told that in proper
> exams this is not acceptable. Anyone who has had more luck than me, please
> let me know. It will give me something to fight with.
>
> Esme
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:13:19 +0000, Discussion list for disabled students
> and their support staff. wrote:
>
> > >
> > Dear Claire,
> > As well as the RNIB, which has been suggested, The Partially
> > Sighted Society do various exercise books for the partially sighted.
> >
> > However the simplest solution is to do what we do and create our own
> > paper using Corel Draw. We have dozens of pupils each with different
> > needs, and having a drawing program to hand allows us to produce all
> the
> > lined and graph paper we need, as well as such things as isometric
> > paper, polar co-ordinate grids etc. We use Corel 8, and a cd with over
> a
> > thousand examples of tactile diagrams, large print diagrams and bespoke
> > paper will be available in a few weeks if this would help.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Adrian.
> > -----------------------------------
> > >I have been approached by a maths lecturer asking if there are any
> > >alternative examination answer books for visually impaired students.
> The
> > >answer books that they presently use are A4 size, with instructions on
> both
> > >front and back, font size 12 and 14. They are looking into enlarging
> these
> > >instructions but were more concerned with the feint ruled lines inside
> and
> > >the size of the gap between lines. One of our student has great
> difficulty
> > >seeing these lines. Does anyone know if we can obtain specialist exam
> > >anwers books from anywhere, or have any suggestions to how we overcome
> this
> > >problem? We have thought about using a computer but we have been
> advised
> > >that because of the nature of the subject, i.e. maths, this could be
> > >problematic.
> > >
> > _______________________________________________
> > --
> > Adrian Farnsworth
> > Resource Officer for the Sight Impaired
> > Derby City Council Education Dept.
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> > http://www.derby-vi-service.demon.co.uk/
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