Dyslexia: Assessing the need for Access Arrangements in Examinations

AN ESSENTIAL RESOURCE


Available after 20 October 2007




Third Edition- Completely Revised and Updated - replaces all earlier editions

Dyslexia: Assessing the need for Access Arrangements during Examinations
A Practical Guide
Third Edition
ISBN 0 - 9539315 - 3 - 6
by Gill Backhouse

with Elizabeth Dolman and Caroline Read
edited by Lynn Greenwold


This third edition, published in association with the Joint Council for Qualifications, is substantially revised in line with the new 2007-08 JCQ Guidance and Regulations. The 3rd edition completely replaces earlier editions of Gill Backhouse’s valuable book. It contains important guidance for the entire area of assessing candidates for examination special arrangements (access arrangements). An essential resource for anyone involved in assessing students with SpLDs for adjustments in examinations access arrangements.

‘We hope that you will use this booklet alongside your [JCQ] regulations booklet. They complement one another and need to be used together’ - Elizabeth Dolman, JCQ Special Requirements Group

It includes a full discussion of the issues and processes including:

  • Understanding & implementing the JCQ regulations

  • Principles underlying access arrangements

  • Guidance for


  • Preparation of assessment reports by Specialist Teachers and Educational Psychologists

  • Review of Basic Concepts in psychometrics

  • Case studies & sample reports

  • Test information

  • Frequently Asked Questions

  • Access arrangements for Key Stage 2/3

  • Completely updated for 2007-08

    • About the authors
    Gill Backhouse is a practising Psychologist and Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Human Communication Science, University College London. She is former Chief Verifier for the OCR Specific Learning Difficulties Scheme and has liased closely with the Joint Council Special Requirements Committee since 1997 when Specialist Teachers became eligible to report to the ABs on candidates’ special needs during examinations.

    Elizabeth Dolman is Manager of the OCR Special Requirements Unit and is a long-standing member of the Joint Council Special Requirements Group.

    Caroline Read is a specialist teacher carrying out assessments for access arrangements in a local secondary school. She runs training for special needs professionals across the UK.

    Lynn Greenwold is Chief Executive, Patoss, Chair of the SpLD Assessment Standards Committee [SASC]; for a number of years an SpLD tutor and learning support tutor with additional responsibilities for examination arrangements for students with learning difficulties and disabilities at Evesham College.


    Cost £7.50 plus packing and postage

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    Patoss,
    P O Box 10,
    Evesham,
    Worcs WR11 1ZW
    Tel: 01386 712 650
    Fax: 01386 712716
    Website: www.patoss-dyslexia.org

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    Dyslexia: Assessing the need for Access Arrangements during Examinations A Practical Guide — Third Edition
    by Gill Backhouse with Elizabeth Dolman & Caroline Read

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    This edition completely replaces earlier editions.



    © Patoss 2008

    PO Box 10.
    Evesham,
    Worcs,
    WR11 1ZW.

    Tel: 01386 712 650.
    Fax: 01386 712 716.

    Email: patoss@evesham.ac.uk.
    Website: http://www.patoss-dyslexia.org/



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