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Examinations in 2021 are cancelled due to Covid-19 and awards will be based on teacher and lecturer judgement supported by quality assurance. Teachers can use papers provided by SQA and/or create their own assessments to gather evidence of attainment. We are writing a series of blogs on the use of technology for internal assessments assessments to try and answer the common questions that we get asked by teachers, parents and students. We will add more blogs as they are written, so check back here. We are also updating our Digital Assessments web site with information on technology-based support during assessments,
Dyslexia Scotland have published an excellent video workshop by Dawn Roberts and Innes Roberts on the use of assistive technology in assessments, and more broadly. The video is well worth a view if you are a teacher, parent or student using digital technology in assessments this term.
How to Divide and Edit SQA Question Papers 3 May 2021.
Last week a teacher called us to ask how to split up SQA question papers because they need to separate out sections to use in classroom assessments. This blog has some hints and tips.
Digital Question Papers are digital versions of SQA National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher exam papers. They are designed for students with disabilities or additional support needs who have difficulty using the ordinary paper exam papers.
Students can read the paper on computer or tablet, zoom in to make the text larger, change the colours to reduce glare or increase contrast, and use text-to-speech software to read the questions.
Papers in 'question and answer' format have red answer boxes into which candidates can type - or dictate, with speech recognition - their answers. For the 'question only' papers, candidates can type or dictate into Digital Answer Books.
Digital Question Papers were piloted and then introduced by SQA in 2008. They have been a huge success and are now used by more than half the schools in Scotland. Feedback and research shows that the technology provides a more independent method of support than human readers and scribes, and that it is also more efficient and cheaper for schools because fewer staff and few rooms are required. As a result, the use of technology and digital papers is now a more popular method of support than human readers and scribes in examinations in Scotland.
For more information, visit our Adapted Digital Exams web site.
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