[etni] Fw: Re: etni Digest V7 #273l

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  • Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:43:38 +0200

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From: Ariella Kopels <mckopels@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: etni Digest V7 #273

Dear All,
I also want to applaud Sharon for her efforts. I have seen the number of 
students who get "tapes" grow by leaps and bounds since I first started 
teaching. I am very worried about the students who need this dispensation. 
We have approached our school's "computer guy" to try to transfer our old 
tapes from former Bagrut exams to computer files. He is working on it, but 
his time is limited and there is no guarantee that we will succeed.

I am also concerned about what will happen on the day of the Bagrut. This 
past summer our school only received 1 tape for the E exam, even though the 
test envelope listed that it was one of two, the other (containing 14 tapes) 
never arrived. Another local high school had the same problem. The post 
office was very helpful, but apparentlyֲ the two missing envelopes never got 
to them. They even called the closest post office to see if it had been 
transferred by mistake.

I know this isn't much help for our immediate problem, but I have a 
suggestion for the future. Maybe we can organize a session with Judy and a 
representative from the testing department at one of the ETAI 
conferences.From the gist of Sharon's letter, I understand that there are 
sympathetic people in the testing department, who simply weren't familiar 
with the difficulties in the field. The listening isn't our only problem. 
The students who sit for the English Bagrut don't have the option of a 
neutral tester, who canֲ write their answers for them. These poor kids have 
to read their answers into a tape - again a technology problem. If they do 
have a tape they often get their directions all mixed up. I've had kids 
erase their answers by mistake, and then they are too tired or frustrated to 
redo the tape. I just want our students to have the same testing conditions 
available in their other subjects.

Best,
Ariella Kopels



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