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Assessment & marking.

Assessment and marking of the exams and coursework of dyslexic students can raise many issues and concerns.

Here you will find suggestions for addressing some of these issues, for example, giving feedback and adjusting deadlines in ways that benefit dyslexic students.

You may find ideas for both inclusive practice and for making reasonable adjustments that are applicable in your discipline area.

Reasonable adjustments

Examples from Exams

  • Follow recommendations for exam arrangements.
  • Be aware that extra time does not allow the effects of dyslexia to be eliminated.
  • Be clear about the recommendations implied by the presence of a dyslexia sticker.

Video examples

Dyslexia video: "Choice of hand-in dates: students plan their deadlines.." Duration: 2 minutes : 59 seconds

Choice of hand-in dates: students plan their deadlines.

"…so if you're struggling with something on Kant or something then you can leave that to the last deadline…"

2 min 59s inclusive teaching video by Andrew Fisher et al., in Coursework

Dyslexia video: "Negotiating reasonable adjustments for online exams.." Duration: 3 minutes : 4 seconds

Negotiating reasonable adjustments for online exams.

"…I think the first thing is we would try and liaise with the student to find out why they felt they would be disadvantaged by taking the exam online…"

3 min 4s reasonable adjustments video by Simon Wilkinson, in Assessment style

Dyslexia video: "Dyslexic students: approaching exams and using extra time.." Duration: 1 minute : 49 seconds

Dyslexic students: approaching exams and using extra time.

"…it helps a lot and lets me check off the questions…because sometimes there's just that one line in there that I've missed…"

1 min 49s student perspective video by Joe Cornfield et al., in Exams

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