I wonder why the amanuensis needs a break of 15 minutes every hour?
A student writing an exam for themselves doesn't have formal rest breaks
like this!
If the student who is using the amanuensis is speaking so quickly that the
amanuensis gets wrist ache then the student should slow down.
Surely the argument for extra time when using an amanuensis is to do with
the
extra time it
takes to dictate rather than write for yourself, and to tell someone else
what
corrections, punctuation etc you want. If a student needs an amanuensis and
has
no need for rest breaks or has no other needs which might qualify for extra
time,
we allow 25% extra .
Asking the student to break from the exam simply to suit the stamina of the
amanuensis seems perverse.
Marion Hingston Lamb
Disabilities Adviser
RED Centre
Roehampton University of Surrey
Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5PJ
Tel: 020 8392 3113
Fax: 020 8392 3735
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Claire Shanks
Sent: 15 January 2002 10:24
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Subject: Amanuensis Work
Good morning all!
This is a query regarding a student using an amanuensis and I am in need
of some advice.
1) How often should an amanuensis have a rest break for and for how
long?
2) Should the student's extra time be added onto the end of the exam?
(including the scribes breaks)
The situation I have at the moment is that a one of a department's
secretaries is acting as an amanuensis for a student. She has told me
that in the past she has had a rest break every hour for 15 minutes.
The student continues to work under exam conditions reading through the
work, and this is therefore the student's recommended extra time. What
are other people's views on this? Is this reasonable or should the exam
break when the amanuensis is having a rest break, and then resume,
adding the 25% extra time at the end?
I hope I have explained this okay and that it makes sense to someone!
Any advice would be gratefully received. Thank you in advance.
With best wishes
Claire
Assistant Disability Officer
Brunel University
Kingston Lane
Uxbridge UB8 3PH
Middlesex
Tel: 01895 274000 ext. 2910
Fax: 01895 816260
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