After the emotion caused by a “tampering” of notes with specialty tests, teachers wonder: benevolence, Covid’s time, could be becoming the new standard. And continue the devaluation of the bac.
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She was an old antiphon, it became real concern. Does the baccalaureate have less value than before, or even more? Thanks to the two years of COVVI -19 epidemic, 98.4 % of the candidates were admitted to the general bac in 2020 – a year when no test could be held – and 97.5 % were received in 2021, this time with a philosophy test and a great oral.
But what was to be an exception is perhaps becoming a habit: on the weekend of June 11 and 12, specialty tests were surprised to see their ratings raised until Two points in the correction and transmission software of notes, Santorini, when they had locked their seizures. According to our information, this practice was more or less observed in all specialties, but to various degrees, more readily affecting the humanities.
National Education recognized a “communication lack” which was able to give the correctors the feeling of changed notes in their backs. The institution has confirmed that a “harmonization”, according to the term consecrated, had been operated on to equalize the specialty notes, without a national instructions for enhancement of the results has been given. Nothing abnormal, we assure. Likewise, if some correctors have been surprised to see their notes go back to the software, it is because they are not all summoned in these commissions “composed of inspectors of academy-regional educational inspectors and correctors”, Indicates the Directorate General for School Education. In addition, since this year, the tool allows you to physically “see” its notes go up in the software. “Only the tool changes”, ensures national education.
But the correctors do not hear this ear. First of all because this “purely statistical equalization”, depending on the word of some of them, has little to do with the traditional “harmonization” of the baccalaureate notes. For them, it would have been carried out in the absence of correctors, who could have compared the rating methods on objective bases. “No corrector around me has been summoned in any commission,” is alarmed Céline Portejoie, a English teacher in Lyon, who saw the average of her share of copies switch from 13.25/20 to 15, 66/20.
“disturbing drift”
According to our information, the changes have sometimes been made by inspectors, to whom national education had made known the technical possibility of retouching the notes in the software, for the sake of homogenization of the results – and this, in Some cases, without reopening copies. “The inspectors believed to do well, it is not a question of throwing their stone, notes Eric Nicollet, president of the Syndicat d’Inspectors Sui-Fsu. Simply, the practice poses question.” The union denounced this phenomenon in a Communiqué, broadcast on June 15, alerting to a “disturbing drift”.
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