[etni] To all bagrut and meitzav markers for future reference
- From: Laura Shashua <dannysh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:48:59 +0300
Hi all,
If you were ever in any doubt as to how to mark accuracy and communicative
skills in a composition, you can look to the UK for inspiration.
Laura
LONDON (Reuters) - A student who scribbled an expletive on an English language
exam paper was awarded 7.5 percent for accurate spelling and effective
communication, The Times newspaper reported on Monday.
The pupil, who wrote "f--- off" after being asked in an English exam to
"describe the room you are sitting in", got 2 marks out of 27 and would have
got more if he had added some punctuation, chief examiner Peter Buckroyd told
The Times.
"It does show some very basic skills we are looking for -- like conveying some
meaning and some spelling," said Buckroyd, who works for the Assessment and
Qualifications Alliance examinations board. "It shows some nominal skills but
no relevance to the task".
"If it had had an exclamation mark it would have got a little bit more because
it would have been showing a little bit of skill".
According to The Times, to gain minimum marks in English GSCE papers -- an exam
taken by hundreds of thousands of 16-year-olds across England every year --
pupils must demonstrate "some simple sequencing of ideas" and an ability to put
"some words in appropriate order".
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080630/tuk-uk-britain-exam-fa6b408.html
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