Hello
Because a student with dyslexia can typically have short term memory difficulties, so can read a page and quickly forget the detail from that read through, they are therefore given extra time to read it twice and more.
Alternatively, reading support is given via screen reading software Texthelp Read and Write and an MS Word or PDF of the exam paper.
And they are given support and strategies to assist them to learn so that they can demonstrate their learning in the exam.
Best regards
Rosemary Dixon
Assessment & Conferments Officer (Appeals)
Academic Registry
Middlesex University
The Burroughs
Hendon
London
NW4 4BT
020 8411 6392
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Fenella Building, Babington Road entrance
Hendon campus
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From: ARC Assessment Practitioners Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lesley Perry
Sent: 16 May 2013 10:25
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Subject: Prompt sheets in exams
Dear all,
Does anyone allow students with a disability to take prompt sheets into exams? At Reading we have not come across this before, but have today received a request from a dyslexic student, on the basis that his dyslexia means he cannot retrieve information from his memory without some kind of prompt. The student believes this is standard practice in some institutions, and I am trying to get an idea of how widespread this practice is.
I would be grateful if you could let me know whether you allow prompt sheets in exams, and, if so, briefly outline the process (ie how you determine whether a particular student is allowed a prompt sheet, what the sheet can contain (key words, mnemonics etc), how you deal with the practicalities of this in exams etc.)
Many thanks
Lesley
Lesley Perry
Examinations Officer
University of Reading
0118 378 8007
www.reading.ac.uk/exams
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