Ami Fletcher wrote:
> Do you make any changes in the marks from examinations if the student has
> only been tested for dyslexia in their third year, and they sat exams that
> have gone towards their final degree in both of these years. If you do
> take this into account and make adjustments to marks retrospectively, and
> if you do, could you please let me know how you go about it!
QUANTITATIVE changes are unlikey, QUALITATIVE more so. By this I mean
they wont bother to make detailed regradings of earlier results. Final year
exam boards take the max mark attainable from a perfect performance
in everything (let's say this is 1000 points), then set the
boundaries for the classifications. So, with 1000 max this might
read:
850+ 1st
750-850 2.1
650-750 2.2 and so on.
Mitigation such as you are seeking would be considered only where a
student is very near a boundary. So if your student had 735 they may
be willing to ask "Would an earlier diagnisis have improved things
sufficiently for him to have got 750 or over?" If they think it would
they have the power to award the higher classification.
If the student is far from the upper boundary, so that no reasonable
consideration is likely to have an effect, then they rarely spend
time considering it.
Obviously, if the final year results show a marked improvement, and
you think this might get overlooked then crow about it and make sure
his personal tutor, or someone on the exam board makes this clear.
Objective evidence always speaks louder than arm waving.
Dave Laycock
Head of CCPD, Chair of NFAC
Computer Centre for People with Disabilities
University of Westminster
72 Great Portland Street
London W1N 5AL
tel. 0171-911-5161
fax. 0171-911-5162
WWW home page: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/
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