This serious, inded, Heather. LAst year it was Marianne Vanderveen reporting a similar case in Dutch Secundairy School chemistry exams. Makes one wonder who is lobbying around the Boards that invent the exams ....
Warmly,
Gonneke, IBCLC in PP, LC lecturer in southern Netherlands, working under raging thunder and rain.
--- On Fri, 7/23/10, heather <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: heather <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [LACTNET] UK school examination questions - disturbing
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Date: Friday, July 23, 2010, 2:45 PM
The charity I am with has responded with a press release about this seriously disturbing issue.
GCSE examinations are taken by the vast majority of 16-year-olds in all parts of the UK bar Scotland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Certificate_of_Secondary_Education). This issue refers to one of the questions on the chemistry paper.
"NCT, the UK's largest parenting charity, has today highlighted concerns that school exam papers may have been subject to the influence of commercial organisations.
The charity has come across two recent science exam questions presenting misleading and inaccurate information that would directly benefit formula milk companies. One of the questions, which featured in a GCSE chemistry paper, also directs students to mistrust charities. "
For more details, the link is here:
http://www.nct.org.uk/press-office/press-releases/view/224
The above link also contains a link to NCT's full and referenced analysis, but put succinctly, 2 questions on the chemistry paper had *seriously* incorrect information about infant formula, its use, contents and safety, and about breastfeeding and breastfeeding support work.
It is worth going to the link and reading it.
We are hoping the British press will respond and that the examination boards will withdraw the papers.
I seem to remember a post on Lactnet which reported similar formula issues in school/college exams in the US - am I right?
Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
-- http://www.heatherwelford.co.uk
http://heatherwelford.posterous.com
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