21 Years of the Herald Politician of the Year Awards: Community MSP THE Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards have been paused for 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, so the judges have looked back on 21 years of winners to choose their best of the best. This week’s retrospective continues with the Community MSP of the Year, a relatively recent category that grew out of the free spirit and political impact awards, and recognises those MSPs who go the extra mile to help their constituents, even if means crossing their party. The judges chose two-time winner Jackie Baillie as the best of the best.
Scotland s traditional exams should be abolished after pandemic, SNP advisers recommend
17 December 2020 • 7:06pm
The Scottish Government s education advisers have recommended that end-of-year exams be abolished
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Scotland s traditional secondary school exams should be abolished altogether following their cancellation during the Covid-19 pandemic, the SNP government s education advisers have told ministers.
The Scottish Government s International Council of Education Advisers (ICEA) said the end-of-year National, Higher and Advanced Higher exams are essentially an out-of-date 19th and 20th century technology.
Instead they recommended more continuous self-assessment and exams that can be taken and retaken like driving tests throughout the school year.
They argued this would be a better system than a one-time, high-stress, win/lose moment at the end of the academic year and said traditional exams have long been seen as poor predictors of future university s
Online courses may not increase cheating, profs find
“Teachers and students are not adversaries, but rather co-learners. Overemphasis on cheating creates hostility and adversity, I prefer this different approach.
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For UW-River Falls students, a scene like this may greet them as they sit down to take final exams this semester. Photo by Monica Marsh
With the end of fall semester in sight at UW-River Falls, a concern facing some professors is how to discourage cheating on final exams, especially now that the coronavirus pandemic has forced courses online.
But the move to online learning doesn’t necessarily correlate to an increase in cheating, according to research conducted by two professors at West Virginia’s Marshall University. George Watson and James Sottile found that students are more likely to cheat in live classes than they are online.