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Student complaints have been heard, and the Matriculation Committee is expected to recommend revoking the normalization of grades

According to sources involved in the matter, it appears that the committee will support not using the differential weighting formula for grades in the approaching winter matriculation.

School principals stressed that this is the right move, and fear the proximity of the recipes to the final exams: "Unreasonable preparation time"

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Sonia Gorodisky

Wednesday, January 20, 2021, 20:27

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Students who will not be tested because of the corona will attend a special date in August (Photo: Roni Kanfo, edited by Nir Chen)

The matriculation committee set up to examine the normalization of grades during the Corona period submitted its conclusions to the Ministry of Education last night (Tuesday), and now the ministry will have to decide whether to continue using the differential weighting formula (SHKD) in the coming winter. "Given the students and continue to use the formula, certainly not when it comes to reducing the score."

and the external review committee, chaired by former education Ministry director general Ronit Tirosh, established last month by the Minister of education Yoav Galant to examine the working processes of adulthood.

The move came against the backdrop of flaws found in the grading process last year, so many students complained about lowering the internal exam scores in the final result following their comparison between schools.

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"Consider students and not continue to use the formula."

Matriculation in Tel Aviv (Photo: Flash 90, Avshalom Shashoni / Flash 90)

The announcement by the Ministry of Education last night that it will be possible to hold matriculation exams and format in schools even during the closure, without further delay, aroused mixed feelings among school principals.

On the one hand, many high school principals breathed a sigh of relief.

Only a few of them supported the rejection.

On the other hand, they are worried that the tight schedules will mean that they will not be able to take the format exams before the matriculation exam, and fear that normalizing the grades will lower the internal exam scores and cause mental damage to the students.

"The rationale of the Ministry of Education is to examine the students in preferred conditions over it, in the schools, and in comparison with the students who were examined in previous years under the normal conditions," explained a high school principal from the central region in a conversation with Walla!

NEWS.

"The students sitting in the March house are mentally injured anyway, because studying in Zoom is not the same studies. Some children tell me 'this is it, I can no longer absorb it'. Should they be given grades? .

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The committee was established following a flood of deficiencies.

Galant (Photo: Government Press Office, Oded Karni)

Although there is not much time left to prepare for the winter exams, and it is already clear that the students will not have time to attend school before the exams, many teachers are convinced that the Minister was right when he insisted on not postponing the matriculation exams again.

This is due to the proximity to the summer matriculation and the uncertainty regarding the date of leaving the quarantine.

Orit Gur Cohen, a teacher and director of the Ginsburg Education Campus in Yavne, told Walla!

NEWS that "postponing the dates of the winter exams would put an additional academic and mental burden on the students and teaching staff and lead to problems in the summer exams as well. It was therefore appropriate to reduce the external exams and allow school grades. In the "Shkad".

Tight schedule

Gur Cohen, who also serves as co-chair of the "Leaders" Principals' Association, raised doubts about the ability of schools to pass a pre-matriculation exam. .

"The teams should prepare terms of features within the school should review and grade.

The preparation time is unreasonable, "she clarified." In addition, the learning process is done all the way online.

Why would a kid who has studied all the way in Zoom suddenly come to school to be tested and I give it all the weight?

Is this not an injury to the child? "

"Isn't this an injury to the child?"

Ben Zvi Givatayim High School, November (Photo: Official website, Givatayim Municipality)

Meanwhile, this morning, an organization of leaders appealed to the Minister of Education and the director general of his ministry to immediately convert the winter exams into a school exam model. The letter explained that Maturity is not the appearance of education. "

They also wrote that" the Ministry of Education is required to declare full trust in the outline of school examinations, without differential weighting of any kind, when control processes will be conducted in accordance with school principals.

The postponement of the exams in February will harm the students, will cause serious systemic damage and is therefore out of the question. "

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