[Maths-Education] Her Majesties Voice
MugwumpM1 at aol.com
MugwumpM1 at aol.com
Thu Oct 19 06:37:10 BST 2006
Colleagues in the UK will be used to the National Curriculum Key Stage 3
Sats.
The KS3 Maths has the curious 'aural'.
Several weeks ago, when feeling particularly perverse, I thought I would ask
the powers that be why it is that we have only ever heard a female voice
reading out the questions. These good people go to extraordinary lengths to have
bias free questions - ethnicity, age, ..
Yet the taped aurals keep arriving with a female voice. So I asked why this
was the case and here is the reply. Am I mistaken to believe that this is a
completely useless answer?
The chaps email is _Andrew.Bayley at naa.org.uk_
(mailto:Andrew.Bayley at naa.org.uk)
{I am Graham Curson}
Dear Mr Gurson,
Thank you for your recent enquiry concerning the choice of voice for the KS3
mental maths test.
Our primary consideration when developing the KS3 mental maths test is
effective delivery, ensuring that the questions are presented in a way that is
accessible to pupils sitting the tests.
Further to that, continuity is helpful for pupils and teachers, as they will
have used practice papers and a degree of familiarity is generally
considered welcome.
The issue of the gender of the announcer has not been raised before by
schools so we have taken it that schools are satisfied with the current
arrangements.
Should we be in position where we needed to review our existing arrangements
for mental test delivery we would consider the gender of the announcer,
however, our overriding concern would be effective delivery of the mental test to
a national cohort of over 650,000 pupils.
I hope this answers your question, but if you have any further question, do
please let me know.
Yours sincerely,
Andrew Bayley
Project Coordinator
KS3 maths
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