UK: Oral tests at GCSE could be dropped as too stressful

[Francis Hult]

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Oral tests at GCSE could be dropped as too stressful
Sunday, 17 Feb 2008 16:31

Oral exercises could be a thing of the past

Oral exams for GCSE foreign languages could be dropped after a report
claimed that they were too stressful. The Sunday Telegraph claims that
the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) would instead rely
on teacher assessments. The QCA said that its report out next week
would concur with a previous review which claimed that one-off oral
tests were not a reliable guide to ability. Lord Dearing's review of
language testing claimed that the stress of oral examinations was
putting youngsters off studying subjects such as French and German.A
QCA spokeswoman declined to confirm that next week's oral assessment
report would signal the end of school oral examinations.


Full story:

http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/politics/oral-tests-at-gcse-could-be-dropped-as-too-stressful-$1205069.htm

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