Dear All
We have been using bright yellow stickers for all kinds of written work,
including exams, for some time. They say:
"This Student has SPECIFIC LEARNING DIFFICULTIES which may adversely affect
his/her spelling and literacy skills. For more information contact(my phone no)"
They're not much bigger than a postage stamp.
I've only ever had two queries from staff - one to check that the student
was entitled to use it because his script was one of the best handed in, the
other to have a learned discussion as to how students were deemed eligible,
on the basis that his wife is an Educational Psychologist and SHE says.....
Do they have an effect? Well, we have one student whose department insisted
that tutors are not influenced by poor spelling etc. where a student is
known to have dyslexia. Shortly after this, she started using stickers and
her marks improved - markedly.
To be fair, with the best will in the world, if you are marking 60 scripts
are you really going to remember who is dyslexic? Also, they need to be
accompanied by staff awareness training and guidelines for staff. We have
done some of the first and a limited amount of the second. Does anyone have
guidelines to share?
Regards
Liz T.
At 17:59 01/08/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear All
>
>We have been approached by a Pro-Vice Chancellor at Leicester for our
>views on the merits of distributing stickers to students with
>dyslexia so that they can stick them on course work and exam papers
>to alert markers to the fact that the writer of the script has dyslexia.
>This is a positive step forward in that there is an awareness that
>these students need to be identified whilst maintaining the anonymity
>of marking.
>
>But (there always is a but) some questions already occur to me:
>
>1 I have in the back of my mind a vague memory about there being
>drawbacks to this system. I wondered if any of my colleagues on dis-forum
>have used sticker and with what result?
>
>2 Markers might well say faced with such a sticker: so what does
>that mean? At Leicester we have produced written guidelines for
>markers, but do other instituions tackle this in a different way?
>
>3 What should the stickers have on them? The legend 'I have
>dyslexia' is hardly of use given the wide spectrum of difficulties
>that can be experienced. Perhaps a sticker with an indication of the
>areas where difficulties are experienced would be better. Has anyone
>got any thoughts on this?
>
>I'd also be interested in SKILL's viewpoint on this issue.
>
>Anyway, I'd be grateful for all views and comments.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Paula
>
>Dr PB Dobrowolski
>Welfare officer for students with special needs
>Leicester Uni
>
>
>nature of the pri this system
>and what sort of response they have had from both students and staff.
>
>
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