[Maths-Education] Re: TTA Numeracy tests for QTS

[Dave Miller]

One of the concerns that many of ours have is with the time allowed, 45
minutes seems to many plenty of time to panic, not necessarily enough to do
the work even to get 60%.

At least 4 of ours have gone through U regs for extra time (10 mins)

Dave
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Dave Miller
Department of Education
Keele University
Keele
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG

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From: Pat Perks <PERKSPA@edusrv3.bham.ac.uk>
To: maths-education@nottingham.ac.uk <maths-education@nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: 11 May 2000 19:37
Subject: Re: [Maths-Education] Re: TTA Numeracy tests for QTS


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>Sue Pope wrote:
>BSRLM have a working group looking at the tests, their impact on
>students etc. - we are aware of a number of errors in the support
>materials - if you have noticed any errors please can you let me know
>just in case you've spotted something we haven't.
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>We are concerned about some of the emphasis in this message - anyone
>writing maths materials can make mistakes and any attention we focus on
>this aspect would encourage the TTA to believe we are validating their
>efforts.
>Our major emphasis needs to be on
>- the impact on the students (should we be doing some collective data
>gathering on June 1st - judging by the white faces after the sample
>aural test - the impact is quite strong
>- the definition of numeracy evinced by the exemplar materials needs to
>be challenged, surely we can find a way of providing a better notion of
>the numeracy needed for the teaching professioon.
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>Stephanie Prestage and Pat Perks
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