I’m with David here, in the sense of trying to develop a fully inclusive teaching & learning system [eg “notes for all” not just for disabled students] as a way of improving the whole T&L thing.  I think one uni has established a no-penalisation of scripts for all students to avoid problems of differential marking.

Our exam board has tried to ignore issues of dyslexia on the grounds that all adjustments have been made during the T&L process, and by extra time, use of computers etc in the exams [whilst retaining the right to discretion on individual cases of course]

PS  my emails to Dis-Forum generate two automatic responses, one saying the message has been distributed, another saying it has been rejected.  Could I ask you, David, to reply to me to say it has been posted if indeed it is???

 

John.

 

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Mark

Thanks for this idea. I am aware from people's responses in this forum that it is a pretty complex matter (the whole 'sticker' business). That's why we're trialling it - to see what people here at DMU think about the very sorts of point you make. From an internal DMU perspective, I will be glad if the trials get people thinking about the issues.

My personal view is that there is a tension between having to respond to legislation which categorises dyslexia as a disability and calls for 'reasonable adjustments' and my own preferred approach, which would be to avoid labelling students as having 'special needs' or disabilities and adopting truly inclusive learning and teaching practices. But as it stands, we've got to have equitable systems which comply with the law.

David

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