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This guest post is by Ruth Greener, Teaching, Learning and Assessment Coordinator and Teacher of English at St. Andrews School, Green Valley Campus, Thailand. When I got the email from Yacapaca, with details and links for the Christmas Story competition, I was keen to try it out. Students at my very sporty school LOVE games…
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The ‘exam paper’ has been around for the last 14 centuries and it is still going strong. The way things are going, the exam-paper looks likely to outlast even the news-paper. But it shouldn’t. Paper-based exams are a hideously-unreliable method of assessing competence. Here are some of the major reliability problems of
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I have yet to meet a single head or senior teacher who can answer this off the top of their heads, but it is easy to work out using government-published figures. Teachers work 55.7 hours/week total1, and spend 9.4 hours/week marking2. That’s 17%. The average teacher salary is £28,9513, but we have to add the employer’s…
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Sam Hucker from Winterbourne International Academy asked me this question this morning: I have set up a partial exam for my BTEC Engineering students. Is there a way that I can set up further questions where they have to type paragraphs or free sentences in larger quantities?
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