Ms Andrea Feeney:

In terms of the schools, the benefits are inherent for the individual school leader that he or she can actually say that. As I said, we have gone directly to school principals and asked them to not just put a notice on the notice board and send an email but to go into the staff room and have that conversation with teachers about the benefits to the school and to themselves as individuals. There are, therefore, professional benefits to the school.

In terms of the teaching and learning for a teacher who engages and works with the examinations, people want to know - not that there are secrets - what happens behind the scenes with regard to the examinations. The opportunity is there to come behind the scenes. Teachers can work with the State Examinations Commission and have that experience of marking their subject and then be able to use that in terms of informing their practice in the classroom. Those are the benefits we would stress in our engagement with principals.