Obviously I agree with the fact that you should not allow, when you are aware, any arrangement for the exams if not taken up in class. However I do not know all the students and have to rely on the Learning Support Department on the information for access arrangement. At the RTA course last week, two JCQ inspectors confirmed, when I posed the question that I suspected that not all the arrangements were not the 'normal way of working', that if we had documentation to say it was, we as Exam Officers had acted in good faith and the Inspector would speak with the principal/director about this. These inspectors said that the documents they expected to see for Exams were a copy of form 8, a copy of the outcome of the application (either electronically or printed) and the signed data protection.
In case I suspect 'fraud' I always inform the principal and point out the consequence for the centre.
But it is one of the areas I am not at all confident about. Today I got a letter of a GP which stated that a candidate is agoraphobic and needed a separate room. She has been coming into college and is participating in class. I have refused so far. No doubt I will get parents on the line.
Kind regards
Marjanne
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Haha!
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Subject: Re: Access Arrangements Normal Way of Working (Again!)
Samantha
That is classic "buck passing" - and I speak as Mr Black! The issue is
very simple - they are either telling the truth or not. As suggested
before, your Head of Centre needs to interpret how the JCQ inspector
would react if they found this practice occurring.
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Duncan
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Thanks Shirley
I have spoken to my line manager about it now, she wants me to put a
paper together detailing what the problems are and what we need in order
to be compliant with the regulations. The next part will be getting
Learning Support to yield to our will. Wish me luck!
Samantha Vowles
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Subject: Re: Access Arrangements Normal Way of Working (Again!)
Hi
I don't think this can be allowed, does it not state that it must be
their normal way of working? I think I would pass this up higher with
your recommendations.
Regards
Shirley
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Subject: Re: Access Arrangements Normal Way of Working (Again!)
Hi Samantha
I agree with you. However if the Learning Support team sign the document
(lying comes to mind), you can apply for the arrangements. You might
want to warn the Learning Support Department that when the JCQ inspector
discover their ploy, they could take away your school's status as an
exam centre.
Kind regards
Marjanne
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>>> Samantha Vowles <[log in to unmask]> 10/12/2012 14:41
>>> >>>
Hi all
Sorry to bring this up yet again.
We have recently discovered that our Learning Support team have been
requesting various access arrangements for students that do not
necessarily need these arrangements in the classroom, but, according to
them, need the arrangement in the exam as they panic and get stressed
and it is only then that they need the arrangement. These arrangements
are backed up by the appropriate evidence, and our learning support team
signing one of our forms agreeing that it is the usual way of working.
Have any of you come across this? To my mind if the student is not
using it in the classroom, even though recommended, they should not have
it during the exam. Surely a bit of stress with exams is normal, and
not necessarily a good enough reason to expect an access arrangement, is
it?
Thanks,
Samantha Vowles
Exams Officer
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Somerset College
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