[etni] Education Min. agrees to talks - as English exam checkers flex muscles
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Education Min. agrees to talks - as English exam checkers flex muscles
Haaretz - July 4, 2008
Hours into the strike of the English final exam evaluators, the Education
Ministry on Wednesday agreed to hear complaints and reexamine the situation.
But as ungraded exams pile up, checkers demand tangible concessions. "We're
disillusioned," one striker told Anglo File this week. "The polite Anglo
approach won't do," the teacher said.
"After three years of working under impossible and degrading conditions in
which we tried to negotiate with the system, we realized we need to put our
foot down," said Sandra Yosef-Hassidim, a striking English Bagrut evaluator
said.
The leaders of the strike explain that three years ago the Bagrut final exam
in English underwent a reform which tripled its volume. The 300-odd
evaluators were expected to maintain the same quota.
This means that evaluators - many of whom immigrated to Israel from
English-speaking countries - are now instructed to grade up to 19 tests per
hour, or 912 a week. The quota requires evaluators to grade one test every
three to five minutes, eight hours a day - a mission impossible, according
to the Dutch-born Yosef-Hassidim. She added that detecting possible cheating
on an exam can take up to an hour, "and then how are you supposed to fill
your quota?"
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