Digital Exams
SQA publish guidance for schools to help them to choose and use the most appropriate assessment arrangements, and a key part of this is ensuring that schools meet duties under equality legislation including the Disability Discrimination Act.
Adapted Digital Papers are digital versions of SQA Standard, Intermediate and Higher exam papers. They are designed for students with disabilities or additional support needs who have difficulty using the ordinary exam papers.
Students who have difficulty with a traditional paper examination question paper can apply to SQA to use ‘Assessment Arrangements’ (AA), such as extra time, scribe or reader, transcription of the paper, word processor or ICT, signed interpretation, or an adapted paper (Braille, enlarged, or printed on coloured paper). SQA publish guidance for schools to help them to choose and use the most appropriate assessment arrangements, and a key part of this is ensuring that schools meet duties under equality legislation including the Disability Discrimination Act. The main principles of this guidance are to allow reasonable adjustments to be made where candidates have difficulty accessing questions or presenting written responses, while ensuring that any adjustments do not compensate for a candidate's inability to meet set standards. In addition, these arrangements should be tailored to meet the individual needs of candidates and should reflect, as far as possible, the candidate’s normal way of learning and producing work.
For more information and to download the program, visit the Adapted Digital Exams mini site.