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| NI education officials face questions over school tests fault | NI education officials face questions over school tests fault |
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| Stormont's education committee is due to question Department of Education and exams body officials about the problems of computer-based testing in schools. | Stormont's education committee is due to question Department of Education and exams body officials about the problems of computer-based testing in schools. |
| Hundreds of primary schools have complained about technical glitches when P4 to P7 children attempted to take the online assessments. | Hundreds of primary schools have complained about technical glitches when P4 to P7 children attempted to take the online assessments. |
| The tests are designed to check on pupils' literacy and numeracy progress. | The tests are designed to check on pupils' literacy and numeracy progress. |
| The Education Minister, John O'Dowd, has already agreed there are glitches which need to be sorted out. | The Education Minister, John O'Dowd, has already agreed there are glitches which need to be sorted out. |
| He has told schools having difficulty not to continue with the tests until the fault has been put right. | He has told schools having difficulty not to continue with the tests until the fault has been put right. |
| The Department of Education is paying almost a million pounds to run the computer-based assessments this year. | The Department of Education is paying almost a million pounds to run the computer-based assessments this year. |
| More than 50,000 pupils have completed the tests but some principals have said they have concerns about the results reported to parents. | More than 50,000 pupils have completed the tests but some principals have said they have concerns about the results reported to parents. |
| Stormont education committee chairman Mervyn Storey said it was "very disappointing that teachers in our schools are being put under huge pressure with this particular issue". | |
| "I believe it is having an impact in terms of the outcome and the information, because these tests are supposedly to tell us where a child's particular aptitude is at in numeracy and literacy and I am very worried that that information is not a reflection accurately of where that child is currently at," he said. |