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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/computers-should-be-used-in-exams.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Qualifications watchdog Ofqual has said using pen and paper in exams should be scrapped in favour of using computers" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-computers-should-be-used-in-exams.jpg" alt="Qualifications watchdog Ofqual has said using pen and paper in exams should be scrapped in favour of using computers"/></a></p>
<p>Putting pen to paper in exams should be scrapped in favour of using computers, the qualifications watchdog has said.</p>
<p>Isabel Nisbet, outgoing chief executive of Ofqual, said retaining traditional writing materials would render GCSEs and A-levels &#8220;invalid&#8221; as &#8220;techno savvy&#8221; pupils were not used to using them.</p>
<p>She has now called for the traditional method of testing to be brought to an end, insisting the reliance on hand-written papers &#8220;cannot go on&#8221;.</p>
<p>Writing in The Times Educational Supplement, she voiced fears that students could take only &#8220;bits&#8221; of a &#8220;very small&#8221; number of their A-levels and GCSEs on computers.</p>
<p>&#8220;They use IT as their natural medium for identifying and exploring new issues and deepening their knowledge,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Yet we are even now accrediting new GCSEs, due to run for several years, which are still taken largely on paper.</p>
<p>&#8220;This cannot go on. Our school exams are running the risk of becoming invalid as their medium of pen and ink increasingly differs from the way in which youngsters learn.&#8221;</p>
<p>If school exams fail to go online soon, exam preparation will become a &#8220;separate thing to learning&#8221;, she warned.</p>
<p>Currently few sections of existing exams can be taken on computers but hand-written scripts are often scanned and marked on-line.</p>
<p>Andrew Hall, chief executive of exam board AQA, welcomed the remarks. &#8220;It&#8217;s really important that students are assessed in the same way that they learn and using the technologies that are commonplace in the world outside the classroom,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The real prize here is to have assessment, online, on-demand, when the student is ready. This should also provide much speedier feedback to students and teachers, so they can identify areas of strength and weakness.&#8221;</p>
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