{"id":415,"date":"2012-06-12T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T11:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/problems-with-higher-leaving-cert-maths-exam-must-be-addressed-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-06-12T11:20:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T11:20:19","slug":"problems-with-higher-leaving-cert-maths-exam-must-be-addressed-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/problems-with-higher-leaving-cert-maths-exam-must-be-addressed-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems with higher Leaving Cert maths exam must be addressed \u2013 Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Problems with higher Leaving Cert maths exam must be addressed \u2013 Crowe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Sinn F\u00e9in education spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has said changes  to the Leaving Certificate higher level maths paper had presented  significant difficulties for many students.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe made his comments after criticism from teachers who questioned the fairness of the exam content.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a good deal of criticism of the exam with one  teacher, Brendan Gildea, saying that the majority of candidates he spoke  to were devastated after sitting the test. This is a very worrying  situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first year that all students will be examined in part in  the new Project Maths syllabus which is supposed to challenge students  who had in the past been encouraged to learn by rote. The revised exam  is also an attempt to encourage more students to take maths at higher  level and I understand there has been a 25% increase in the numbers  sitting the paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is mounting criticism of the language used in the exam and  some teachers have stated parts of question seven on statistics were not  on the syllabus and that the exam in no way assessed what candidates  had learned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State Examinations Commission and Education Minister Ruair\u00ed  Quinn must seriously assess the criticism levelled at the exam and take  steps to improve its content and fairness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problems with higher Leaving Cert maths exam must be addressed \u2013 Crowe The Sinn F\u00e9in education spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe TD has said changes to the Leaving Certificate higher level maths paper had presented significant difficulties for many students. Deputy Crowe made his comments after criticism from teachers who questioned the fairness of the exam content. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}