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After questions about interest in the written test of philosophy, professors pose new problems. The main break point: Digitizing copies and debugging done on the computer.
The new correction method, which was already implemented in the Common Continuous Assessment (E3C) exams last year, aims to simplify the organization of the exam by avoiding copy transfer and/or copy loss.
Once the four-hour test is over, transcripts are scanned at the institution hosting the test. The students’ copies are then digitally sent to the testing house which finally redistributes the copy sets to teachers on the SANTORINI software.
practical problems
If this new method of organizing correction poses a problem to a certain number of teachers, then it is above all practical problems. “Many of us correct by categorizing the transcripts by signs, so we can go back to the versions we initially corrected that we might have been too harsh or too lenient for,” something not possible in the program notes Nathan Assimpah, a professor at Limay.
But the main concern of the professors is with the medium itself, which is the computer screen.
‘We get tired of reading on the screen’
With the spread of the pandemic and distance learning courses, teachers have already been able to experience the workings of a computer. “My eyes are itching more and more because of the screens,” Nathan Asimbah testifies.
First copies, first “errors”
This discomfort symbolizes the problems that this new way of doing things raises. “We want the technology to promote the best conditions for the corrector, and therefore at the service of the student. Michel Bouton, a teacher at Notre Dame High School in Mantes-la-Jolie, explains that there is a complexity for the corrector.
When the first copies arrived Friday evening (or when they were discovered Saturday morning), educators couldn’t have been more convinced of this new technology. Blurry (but readable) copies arrived, and some, out of order (where the last page appears first) or even not at all (see photo).
Correction is already an exercise painful enough to worsen conditions.
Like him, Bruno Berry received plenty of copies late Friday night. While he feels comfortable with digital technologies, he points to the fact that copies are hard to read on a laptop screen. “I gave up on the idea of working on the software, and I’m going to print copies. That’s 700 sheets to print while the hard copies are there,” the professor said Saturday evening.
Lack of consultation?
But if technical concerns anger the proofreaders, it is the method of creating this new technology that asks the professors most questions. “We have the impression that those who decided on this new method did not at all consult with the correctors,” judges a teacher from Mantua.
For Bruno Perre, “It is not a small change in method, it changes the very nature of the correction, but we have the impression that this change was made without thinking about the effects it would have.”
Philosophy professors especially regret having a different relationship with transcription when correction is done through a screen. This generates, compared to hard copies, “a greater difficulty in immersion in the copy, and therefore in the thought of the pupil,” explains Michel Bouton.
La contestation autour de l’épreuve s’est organisée un peu partout en France avec un mouvement de grève de correction des copies à Grenoble notamment, des tribunes publiées dans Le Figaro ou encore Marianne et une manifestation le jeudi 17 juin devreant de l ministè ‘National Education.’
Called, the latter did not respond to our requests.
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