Moves to assess own pupils ‘will be resisted’

Teachers have warned that any attempt to introduce assessment of students by their teachers as part of reform of the Leaving Certificate will be strenuously resisted.

Delegates attending the annual conference of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) yesterday signalled their resistance to this type of reform by unanimously backing a motion calling on their union to “formulate a policy of total opposition” should attempts be made to introduce such assessment in the senior cycle.

General secretary Kieran Christie said ASTI was “not opposed to reform per se” but that the union “has for many years had a policy that we will not assess our own students for certificate examination purposes”.