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Considering the debacle surrounding the Scottish exam results, you would gave thought that England would have learned from it. Apparently not.
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Unsure what everyone wants. There's been a global crisis and we all have to live with that and not expect things to have gone as normal. Folk can accept the official solutions or they can wait and take the exam when it becomes possible to do so. Everyone wanting 'A's right now is just pie in the sky. Life sucks sometimes and one has to make the best of it.
I am pretty sure this year's results are better than last year's. You can never have everyone happy with their results. The parents and schools know that if they keep pushing they'll get better grades as ministers will cave in/compromise to get the problem over with- but it will just be further grade drift and there will be no winners in the long run
>I think that everyone just wants a fair assessment based on past results and course work. Some of these youngsters will have their hopes of a university place dashed, there's just so much competition
How do you know that's not happened. The results overall are up on previous years. What would it take to make everyone happy? Give teachers free choice over grades even though studies have shown teachers generally over predict
How do you know that's not happened. The results overall are up on previous years. What would it take to make everyone happy? Give teachers free choice over grades even though studies have shown teachers generally over predict
ich - // "Increasing the A level grades" said Gavin Williamson, "could mean a whole generation promoted beyond their abilities"
Irony klaxon at deafening levels. //
I hope that remark comes back to haunt him.
I appreciate that predicting grades can be tricky, but for an A* predicted student to receive a C should surely ring alarm bells somewhere, and there are many many of them.
Irony klaxon at deafening levels. //
I hope that remark comes back to haunt him.
I appreciate that predicting grades can be tricky, but for an A* predicted student to receive a C should surely ring alarm bells somewhere, and there are many many of them.
But you will probably find, andy, that that school still has ended up with more A* students than it normally had, and probably more A/Bs, in lieu of Cs.
Having said that, how on earth you downgrade a single person's prediction that much without going back to check first with the school or to check the data input is a mystery. An alarm bells should have rung and a discussion/negotiation should have taken place.
Having said that, how on earth you downgrade a single person's prediction that much without going back to check first with the school or to check the data input is a mystery. An alarm bells should have rung and a discussion/negotiation should have taken place.
FF - // But you will probably find, andy, that that school still has ended up with more A* students than it normally had, and probably more A/Bs, in lieu of Cs.
Having said that, how on earth you downgrade a single person's prediction that much without going back to check first with the school or to check the data input is a mystery. An alarm bells should have rung and a discussion/negotiation should have taken place. //
What is fundamentally unfair about the current grading system the government has used, is that it is based on the exam profile of the school.
That means that a school with an intake of exceptionally gifted students, and correctly predicted high grades for them, will see those students downgraded purely on the basis of the past exam history of the school, over which they have no control, and to which they have had no input.
That cannot ever be seen as a fair and just system to award grades that are going to affect students' future career paths, and future lives.
Having said that, how on earth you downgrade a single person's prediction that much without going back to check first with the school or to check the data input is a mystery. An alarm bells should have rung and a discussion/negotiation should have taken place. //
What is fundamentally unfair about the current grading system the government has used, is that it is based on the exam profile of the school.
That means that a school with an intake of exceptionally gifted students, and correctly predicted high grades for them, will see those students downgraded purely on the basis of the past exam history of the school, over which they have no control, and to which they have had no input.
That cannot ever be seen as a fair and just system to award grades that are going to affect students' future career paths, and future lives.
fiction-factory - // Having said that, how on earth you downgrade a single person's prediction that much without going back to check first with the school or to check the data input is a mystery. //
Maybe the government should have considered that a teacher of A Level Students is a professional of sufficient personal and professional integrity that they assess their students fairly and accurately, and predict grades accordingly.
That would be an improvement on sitting on its hands since March, and then using some bizarre computer system to defraud students of their rightful grades and university places, as the government has done.
Maybe the government should have considered that a teacher of A Level Students is a professional of sufficient personal and professional integrity that they assess their students fairly and accurately, and predict grades accordingly.
That would be an improvement on sitting on its hands since March, and then using some bizarre computer system to defraud students of their rightful grades and university places, as the government has done.
