Hi All,
We actually do give out full exam scripts under the DPA - a decision taken before I arrived. We make it very clear in the Regulations ( and I think all Uni's are the same, but I stand to be corrected) that you cannot challenge academic judgment, so even if they pay to have them marked independently they can't use a different academic 'opinion' on it's own as a basis for an appeal or a challenge.
I have always assumed that it was simply down to sheer weight of numbers that could possibly request their entire scripts every year. Here, it is a service that the students like and has never caused us an issue (silently crosses fingers behind back) apart from weight of administration. Some departments even set days for students to come in and view their scripts and set appointments with Tutors if they wish to go through them.
Best
Anne
Anne Cameron
Legal Compliance Manager
King's College London
Tel: 020 7848 4344
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"I've always understood it's to keep any comments made by an examiner private (to the examiner/board) and to preserve the anonymity of the examiner doing the marking"
But examiner's comments *can* be disclosed - see para 8 of Sch7: "personal data consisting of marks or other information processed by a data controller personal data consisting of marks or other information processed by a data controller".
It's been suggested to me by some very knowledgeable people that it was to prevent students having their scripts independently marked, by an assessor of their choice, in order to challenge poor results.
Jon Baines,
Chairman
www.nadpo.org.uk
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<[log in to unmask]>, at
10:55:37 on Mon, 28 Apr 2014, "Baines, Jonathan"
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>As we all know, para 9 of Sch 7 to DPA 98 exempts examination scripts
>from subject access rights. A few of us have been having a twitter
>conversation about why that exemption exists. The only answer we?re
>coming up with is that from disclosures of exam scripts one could
>accurately remember/infer the exam question, and some examining bodies
>reuse/recycle their questions.
Don't they publish the "past papers" for public exams any more. When I was at school we had piles of old A-level which were used for setting homework, and I'm petty sure the University published past Tripos papers too.
>Brief searches of Hansard haven?t come up with much ? does anyone have
>any other knowledge/theories? It?s always struck me as a bit unfair and
>arbitrary
I've always understood it's to keep any comments made by an examiner private (to the examiner/board) and to preserve the anonymity of the examiner doing the marking.
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Roland Perry
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