What are you like at remembering pupils' names?

[laserblazer]

I would have thought it would have been possible to have the test decide if you were right rather than leave it to the user when a reply is entered?

 

What would be the point of cheating?

[elsiegee40]

I took the test and surprised myself:

 

I would have thought it would have been possible to have the test decide if you were right rather than leave it to the user when a reply is entered?

They are allowing for people not being able to spell and, judging by some of the answers, putting an actor's character (e.g. Jean Luc Picard) instead of their real name would be OK.

 

I got 65%. I recognised most of the faces, but couldn't put a name to some of them. The picture of Tony Blair is awful, I agree... even forwarned I didn't get him!

[6Foot2]

What would be the point of cheating?

 

It wasn't the potential for cheating I was pointing out. It was more to streamline the test: Get the answer right or wrong and then on to the next question.

 

However I do take the point made by @elsiegee40 [above]

Edited November 12, 2012 by 6Foot2
Correct spelling mistake.

[localzuk]

Had a look at that page. I didn't finish the test - don't have time. But of the 10 faces I saw, I recognised all of them but didn't know the names of half and misnamed one (called Reagan Nixon).

[sonofsanta]

If I know a kids name, it's a bad sign, as it usually means I've had to deal with them being a little wotsit, or otherwise heard their name mentioned repeatedly for being a wotsit. I end up knowing a handful of Yr13 as well as they're always sat on the computers outside my office doing Art coursework, but half a dozen students out of 1200 can pretty much be rounded down to zero, I think.

 

I know every password for printers, switches, servers, Fog, cameras, website, password vault, test accounts, Twitter feeds, wireless networks... off the top of my head, though. Most of them are garbage strings but as others say, my job to know them. It does occasionally terrify me how full my head is with this stuff though - there's nothing like employing a new techie for making you realise how embedded in the network you've become.

[LeMarchand]

I don't know lots of the teachers names either, I do work in multiple schools though. Always asking what their username is as a workaround

 

Glad I'm not the only one who does this!

 

Like some of the others, the only children's names I know are those that are "challenging".

[elsiegee40]

I usually ask the child how they spell their surname... with a surname, I can usually remember their forename!

 

You do get some peculiar looks as they say S M I T H!

[LeMarchand]

Did quite well on the test though (28/30) and the 2 I didn't get (the 2 black ladies) I felt weren't very fair to UK people: the first was somewhat obscure and the other was a very old picture.

 

Mind you I'm pretty good with actors and rubbish at "real" people!

[sidewinder]

Used to know a few names at my old job, as it was a large secondary school so inevitably there were a few bad ones or ones that kept coming up to the office.

 

Totally different now at a smaller independent school - the culture of the pupils coming to me doesn't exist (partly because they're a lot younger I suppose) and there are literally no troublemakers, they're all so well behaved (well on the computers at least)

[Norphy]

Glad I'm not the only one who does this!

 

Like some of the others, the only children's names I know are those that are "challenging".

 

I've been here five years and I think I only know about a third of the staff by name. It doesn't help that I'm more second line than first I suppose. As for the kids, I know a few of the obvious ones by sight but I don't know any of their names!