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Archived exam related articles in the mediaInternet: Exams: Study shatters geek image. The typical internet user, far from being a geek, shuns television and actively socialises with friends, according to a new study on net browsing habits. The findings of the first World Internet Project report present an image of the average netizen that contrasts with the stereotype of the loner who spends hours on the internet and rarely engages with the real world ...More from Sydney Morning Herald
Education: Exams: £100m scheme to modernise exams.
The government has set out plans to modernise the exam system in England to make it "fit for the 21st Century". Its £100m proposals include setting up a National Assessment Agency to work with the exam boards. There will be higher fees and better training for examiners, and more resources for schools' exam officers.
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Education: Exams: Testing students by mobile phone.
As the government announces plans to modernise the exam system, various experiments are going on with innovative ways of assessing what students know. How about using your mobile phone to answer questions read out by a robot, for example?
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop Education: Exams: Remote eye to prevent cheating. Call it a spycam or an electronic invigilator - whatever they end up dubbing it, the University of Newcastle reckons it will stop online cheats. Newcastle has developed a camera that can monitor off-campus students doing exams online so they do not have to go to a supervised location ...More from Australian IT
'Too much, too young' for children.
Should we start formal schooling at a later age? Young children's behaviour in school is being adversely affected by too many tests and targets and a lack of creative play, say teachers
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop Students called on SMS cheating. Six students at the University of Maryland admit cheating on an accounting exam using their cell phones' text-message feature. University officials say it's a growing problem ...More from Wired News UK Baccalaureate will replace A levels and GCSEs by 2010. An announcement by Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, and David Miliband, the School Standards Minister effectively pensions off A levels and GCSEs at the end of this decade ...More from The Times Students facing computer test for plagiarised work. British students are facing a new test following the introduction of a national computer system that identifies copied work. Academics at all British universities and colleges can now use the Plagiarism Advisory Service, which is based at the University of Northumbria ...More from Ananova
Too much testing - says exams chief.
England's chief exam regulator has said that youngsters are being tested too much - and has questioned the value of having GCSEs at the end of compulsory education.
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop School fees won't buy a good degree. Britain's most expensive private schools produce pupils who achieve the worst results at university, according to an eight-year study of graduates ...More from The Times Online test prep free-for-all. California high school students who can't afford to shell out hundreds of dollars for college entrance exam prep courses can now get free pre-test instruction online... More from Wired News UK head teachers condemn A level 'fix'. Estelle Morris, the Education Secretary, is facing the biggest fight of her political life after schools joined forces to declare the examination system "no longer commands confidence ...More from The Times Furor over MBA study by Stanford researchers. Stanford study contends MBA degrees overrated. For many would-be executives and entrepreneurs, an MBA degree is supposed be the ticket to career success. Two researchers at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business are turning that notion on its head ...More from the San Francisco Chronicle Instant answers with PDA pop quiz. Software that turns a PDA into a wireless Web server allows teachers to know how well their students are grasping their concepts. Nothing like a little impromptu quiz to make kids hate those handhelds ...More from Wired News UK Budget flights boost GCSE Spanish. A boom in budget flights to the Costas has led to a surge of nearly 7 per cent in the number of pupils studying Spanish at school, compared with a sharp drop in other languages ...More from the Times Algebra = X in one US school, Y in another. Teaching inconsistent as standards waver. After taking Maryland's state algebra test this year, Susan Gruenspecht's students at Westland Middle School in Montgomery County wanted to know: Where was the algebra? ...More from the Washington Post A D-Minus for computer exams. It's been three years since officials phased out paper-and-pencil exams in favor of the computer-based version of the Graduate Record Exam, but critics say that computer-adaptive testing remains flawed ...More from Wired News UK children to get £40 (Approx. US$60) a week to study A levels. A £600 million (Approx. US$900,000) scheme to extend educational maintenance allowances across the country will be at the heart of a three-year spending review ...More from the Times Eton to lead top schools' revolt over league tables. Leading independent schools, including Eton, are planning a mass boycott of this year’s A-level and GCSE league tables because of fears about the accuracy of the marking ...More from the Times
Strict procedures for UK exam papers.
As two people face allegations of stealing exam papers, BBC News Online examines the tight procedures that surround "live" papers
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Mind mapping can help dyslexics.
A memory technique called mind mapping is being used to help people with dyslexia to improve their writing and exam grades
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop CNN Student News: Tips for reading textbooks. "Yuck!" If that's your reply when your teacher tells you to read a chapter in the history book, you're not alone. Many students, even if they like to read for fun, do not enjoy reading textbooks. Try these tips to make reading for information easier and thus, more enjoyable ...More from CNN 'Let in state pupils with lower grades'. UK state school pupils should be allowed into university with lower A-level grades than applicants from independent schools, a minister has said ...More from the Times Pupils to get cash in exam results incentive. Pupils at a British secondary school are to be paid up to £300 each in an incentive scheme to boost exam results. St George Community College, Bristol, an LEA-funded 11-18 comprehensive in Lawrence Hill, has devised the plan to motivate children in their GCSEs ...More from Ananova US SAT Scores Available on Internet. High school students can end the nerve-racking wait for SAT scores a week early by getting their scores online, but it will cost them ...More from Wired News
British universities 'ignoring AS-levels'.
Head teachers warn that students will not want to take AS-levels if universities do not take them into account when offering places
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Starred grades for infants' tests.
New, starred exam grades could be introduced for the brightest pupils as young as seven in England
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Radical agenda' for UK teenage education.
Government proposals for vocational training and new qualifications aim to keep all young people in education beyond the age of 16
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop Ministry overseer sent to UK exam board. A government adviser was sent in yesterday to help to run the Edexcel examination board after Tony Blair's spokesman condemned its performance as sloppy ...More from the Times Maths error exam board loses 20 students' coursework. The UK exam board which set a maths question that was impossible to answer has also lost pupils' AS-level coursework. It has been reported that Edexcel lost the coursework portfolios of 20 performing arts students at North Devon College, Barnstaple. It has recently emerged a printing error on an AS-level maths paper meant 2,500 students were faced with a question that could not be answered ...More from Ananova New grade for A level elite. Downing Street are drawing up plans to introduce a higher mark for the brightest UK pupils ...More from the Times Exams authority faces legal action over fiasco. Scotland's exams body is facing its first legal action for damages from a pupil who was given the wrong results in the exams fiasco of 2000. Lawyers acting on behalf of 18-year-old Claire Bowen believe that the move may open the floodgates for similar claims against the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA). Miss Bowen is seeking compensation on the basis that the SQA's negligence harmed her academic career ...More from Ananova Pakistani school chiefs enrage parents by demanding schoolgirl photos. Schoolgirls in part of Pakistan have been told to provide photos of themselves if they want to take their exams. The move in the Swat region of the country, where girls normally wear veils, has enraged parents. They say their daughters will pull out of education altogether rather than comply with the ruling ...More from Ananova Random answers win illiterate man top university place. An illiterate butcher has been offered a place at Brazil's top university after giving random answers in a multiple choice admission test. Severino Da Silva, from Nova Iguaçu, has passed the test for the law course at the Estacio De Sa University in Rio De Janeiro. He ranked 9th among more than 1,000 hopefuls ...More from Ananova New crackdown on cyber exam cheats. A new crackdown on cyber cheats in the UK has been launched aimed at making exams on computers fair for all. The British Standards Institution has proposed a set of guidelines for schools and universities that use high-tech methods to question students. Online hacking of examination papers is a major concern ...More from Ananova Thousands of US college entrance exams go missing. Thousands of US students may have to retake their university entrance tests because their papers have gone missing. Up to 7,800 Scholastic Assessment Tests (SATs) from October still haven't arrived in the College Board's New York offices. The board says the delay could be due to the closure of post offices in New Jersey where anthrax was found ...More from Ananova Tests set to seek out 'world class' pupils. Tough new tests designed for bright children aged nine, or even younger, have being launched in the UK. The so-called World Class Tests will be voluntary and are designed to stretch the ablest youngsters. According to the Department for Education and Skills, they will also be available in countries such as the US, Hong Kong and New Zealand ...More from Ananova
An A-level in four lessons.
A UK sixth former casts doubt on the standards of exams, after scoring a C in A-level business studies with four hours of private tuition
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop Chinese students 'buy fake results to study in UK. Chinese students are allegedly securing places at British universities by paying £4,000 ($5,700) for fake qualifications. Police in China are reported to have uncovered a fraud racket in Beijing where GCSEs, A-levels and other British qualifications are available. ...More from Ananova UK GCSE results just get better and better. Thousands of school pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are finding out how they have fared in their GCSE exams. Once again overall grades have improved - with boys narrowing the gap with the girls ...More from ITN Grades rise after text message teaching tip plan. UK education officials who used mobile phone text messages to encourage GCSE students to revise saw results improve by six times the national rate. Students in Knowsley, Merseyside, received a "soap opera" about three GCSE hopefuls in the form of 60 text messages over nine weeks. ...More from Ananova Boys' grades improve by sitting next to girls. Boys made to sit next to girls during lessons have seen a huge improvement in their grades. Teachers in Essex, UK, hit on the plan after realising the girls were doing so much better in exams. The new seating arrangements have been going on for the past three years and have resulted in a 13% improvement in the boys' grades ...More from Ananova Debating Merits of Palms in Class. Some US schools provide handheld devices to help students learn, while others ban them to prevent disruptions and cheating ...More from Wired News Double exam triumph for bullied eight year old. A British eight-year-old boy is celebrating double GCSE success just two years after bullies forced him out of school. Dylan Cobb scored Grade B in both maths and information technology following nine months' tuition at Watford's Ryde College. His mother Anita Cobb, 45, said the success came after he was pulled out of his school in Devon where he was being bullied ...More from Ananova Long wait over for UK A-level students. Headline statistics released showed the number of passes had hit a new record. They mark the 18th consecutive annual rise in the number of entrants awarded grades A to E. The Government hailed the improvement, saying students should feel a "real sense of achievement" ...More from Ananova UK students alert examiners to foot-and-mouth plight. The foot-and-mouth outbreak has forced thousands of students to ask examiners to take into account the effects of the disruption to the countryside on their exam marks. Exam boards receive about 150,000 requests for special consideration from A-level and GCSE candidates every summer for reasons including illness, injury or the death of a loved one ...More from Ananova Duke's alarm as AS-level stress blights award scheme. The Duke of Edinburgh has expressed concern that students are abandoning his award scheme to concentrate on the new AS level exams ...More from the Times
Exams body in marker inquiry.
The Scottish exams body investigates how an unqualified marker was given almost 200 pupils' scripts
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'Regret' over A-level changes.
The government apologises for this year's problematic introduction of the AS-level exams and introduces changes to the way they are run
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop UK sixth-form workload to be lightened. The number of AS-level papers first year sixth formers have to sit is to be slashed in a bid to make the new exams more user friendly. Education Secretary Estelle Morris announced that students will sit single tests of up to three hours rather than large numbers of shorter papers ...More from ITN
Homework overload may hit grades.
A heavy load of homework does not always lead to good grades, a UK and US research study has said
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Parents paid to oversee exams.
A UK secondary school is paying parents to invigilate in exams - freeing its teachers for more important work
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop UK Education minister orders review of AS-level shambles. Estelle Morris, the Education and Skills Secretary, ordered a review of the new sixth-form curriculum which head teachers have branded as a shambles ...More from the Times Alas poor pupils... The Tempest, that is the question. A leading UK independent school has acknowledged that it taught pupils the wrong Shakespeare play for their A-level exams. English Literature students at King Edward's School, Bath, only discovered the error when they turned over their question papers at the start of the exam. The 26 pupils had to miss a section of the paper because they had been taught Hamlet instead of The Tempest as required by the exam board ...More from the Telegraph Bribes that buy exam success. The days when children received a bike as their reward for good exam grades have passed. Cars, holidays and unlimited supplies of pocket money are now being offered as parents adopt increasingly mercenary tactics to drive up results, according to new research ...More from the Times
Test paper security breach feared.
An investigation has begun into a potential breach of security involving test questions at a college in west Wales. BBC News Online has learned that a supposedly secret trial version of questions for a series of tests, currently being taken by students nationally, was put on a private website by a teacher at Carmarthenshire College.
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop Changes mean five exams in one day for UK pupils. Confusion is looming in the country's examination halls as changes to the A-level system puts pupils, teachers and examiners under strain ...More from the Times
Public airing of students' exams.
UK students on a media production course are sitting their exams in public by broadcasting live. Twenty-four radio students at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside are presenting six live radio programmes on the student radio station Siren FM this week. The station is also streamed live on the web, and there is a studio webcam.
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop UK Teenagers face testing time with GCSE changes. Teachers are unprepared for wholesale changes to GSCE courses to be introduced in the new school year, examiners claim ...More from the Times Good teacher-ed programs insist on lots of practice. The education program at Huston-Tillotson College threw off its dunce cap last September. Graduates' test scores on the Texas teacher certification exam had shot up by 50 percent in three years, and the Austin school made it off probation and back onto the state's list of fully accredited programs. ...More from USNews.com UK's Private schools snub new-style exams. Independent schools are snubbing the first exams of the new A-level curriculum, raising the fear that a two-tier system is opening up across sixth forms ...More from the Times New Toys for Cheating Students. The proliferation of mobile devices gives students more ways to cheat on tests. But the teachers are on to them... More from Wired News
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