{"id":17,"date":"2007-08-24T14:25:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T13:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-08-24T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T18:24:09","slug":"tragic-marker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Tragic marker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside the predictable photogenic female twins with 12 As on the front pages of the papers (and the predictable prediction of these stories) there&#8217;s been a new element in the media reports this results season. As electronic marking becomes more widespread there have been some disturbing stories about its shortcomings. Here are the links: decide for yourself whether these are the teething problems of a brave new world or the inevitable consequences of letting the technology mess up a perfectly good system. Or, of course, something else:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/schools\/comment\/story\/0,,2146131,00.html?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=8\">Tragic marker<\/a>: Alastair Harper has no experience of teaching. But that didn&#8217;t prevent him taking a job marking this year&#8217;s GCSEs. (<em>Guardian<\/em>, Friday August 10, 2007)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/gcses\/story\/0,,2152578,00.html?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=8\">In capable hands<\/a>? Minimal training, no experience of teaching &#8230; these are just two of the criticisms made today of Edexcel markers. Is this really how exams are being assessed, asks Felicity Carus in <em>The Guardian<\/em>, Tuesday August 21, 2007<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tes.co.uk\/2421608\">Writing too much hits online marking<\/a>: Edexcel asks students to keep answers concise and in black to suit its on-screen system. <em>TES<\/em>, 24 August 2007 <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/education\/6962320.stm\">Less is more for online marking<\/a>: BBC report on same story, 24 August 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please add your own comments and links here to continue the argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As electronic marking becomes more widespread there have been some disturbing stories about its shortcomings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-examining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}