Hi Helen
What my school does it to provide students with a dyslexia certificate
identifying them only by student number that they scan in and submit with
their course work in Turnitin (marking is set to anonymous).
The certificate states that unless grammar, spelling, punctuation etc are
part of the learning outcomes / assessment criteria these difficulties should
not be taken into account when doing the marking, though the marker is free
to note these difficulties when giving feedback.
If there are concerns about whether the certificate's student ID has been
changed / tampered with, the student ID can be compared to a list of students
with disabilities (noted by ID) held in a shared area of the network that can
be assessed by tutors and administrators.
I hope this helps.
Heather
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 15:05:20 +0000
From: "Davies Helen.M." <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Identifying a student with Dyslexia via Turnitin Grademark
Hi,
We are currently running a pilot of Turnitin Grademark here at Swansea
University. However, it has flagged up a potential accessibility issue. One
of our lecturers has contacted us with the following query:
The university's policy is that students nominate whether they want their
markers to take dyslexia into account by attaching a sticker to the hard copy
they hand in. Only students who have been assessed for dyslexia have access
to these stickers.
Does anyone have a similar policy in place? How do you manage regarding
online marking? I realise that there are different ways of marking and
giving feedback, such as the use of audio and screencasts etc, but our issue
is identifying that the (anonymous) student wants his/her dyslexia to be
taken into account during the marking process. Only students with dyslexia
are provided with these stickers, but if we to get the students to, say, type
a code in, then other students could just as easily do this, rendering the
procedure unusable.
Do you know of any workarounds/solutions? Many thanks in advance
Helen M Davies
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