on January 8, 2016
TES News – Exams too often “disempower” learners by failing to give them the chance to demonstrate their full range of knowledge and skills, according to a group of leading academics and policy advisers from around the world.
Posted in Assessment Matters, Examinations and Qualifications |
on January 8, 2016
BBC News Education – This year’s key GCSE and A-Level examinations have been timetabled to take into account the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, exam boards have said.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, News, Secondary |
on December 18, 2015
GOV.UK – Technical and vocational qualifications for teaching from September 2016 and reporting in 2018 performance tables.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Performance Data, Secondary |
on December 11, 2015
GOV.UK – A consultation by Ofqual on 3 separate but closely linked sets of proposals for GCSE, AS and A level exams. GOV.UK – Alternative marking review processes for exams.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Secondary |
on December 11, 2015
BBC News Education – More than 90,000 GCSE and A-level results were changed after challenges to grades awarded this summer, the highest on record and an increase of 17% compared with last year. The Telegraph – Record number of exam grades changed, figures show.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Secondary |
on November 3, 2015
TES News – Ministers have watered down their policy of requiring all secondary students to sit GCSEs in the core academic subjects that make up the English Baccalaureate.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, News, Secondary |
on October 11, 2015
TES News – Ofqual has rejected claims from leading private school headteachers that the quality of exam marking would be improved if teachers were paid more for marking.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, News, Secondary |
on October 11, 2015
The Scotsman – This year’s Higher maths exam was “unfit for purpose”, according a former principal assessor – thanks to a question about a crocodile.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, News, Secondary |
on October 2, 2015
TES News – Almost ninety per cent of all entries for A-levels in general studies and critical thinking come from the 500 top-performing state schools, a study has found.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Performance Data, Secondary |
on September 26, 2015
TES News – British pupils could have their GCSE papers marked in countries including Spain and South Africa by overseas teachers who may not have previous experience of the syllabus. The plan is being considered by OCR, one of England’s three main school exam boards, to tackle a shortage of examiners, TES can reveal.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, News, Secondary |
on September 20, 2015
The Telegraph – Sir Michael Wilshaw, the head of Ofsted, warns of serious concerns about whether the exam system is robust.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Secondary |
on September 20, 2015
The Telegraph – Markers are more generous when they re-mark A-level and GCSE papers right after the summer results because they “feel really bad” about penalising pupils, the chair of the exams regulator has said.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Secondary |
on September 20, 2015
GOV.UK – Timeline of changes to GCSEs, AS and A levels.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Examinations Reform, Secondary |
on September 11, 2015 | updated September 20, 2015
GOV.UK – GCSE subject content publications setting out the knowledge, understanding and skills common to all GCSE specifications.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Examinations Reform, Secondary |
on September 11, 2015
GOV.UK – Documents for schools about GCE AS and A level subject content for teaching from 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Posted in Examinations and Qualifications, Examinations Reform, Secondary |
