Sentences with phrase «different exam board»

The Department for Education (DfE) responded to OCR's concerns by saying that if they can not recruit enough markers then they should pull out of the contract and make way for a different exam board.

These resources could equally be used for KS3 to prepare students for GCSE poetry if a different exam board is being used for GCSE.

Suitable for several different exam boards.

There will be one exam board for these English Bac subjects rather than having different exam boards competing with their own versions.

There is also likely to be one exam board for each subject - rather than having different exam boards competing with their own versions.

The XO tablet that the two states are considering as an alternative to the stagnant or intermittent Aakash project is in reality a laptop that would have all the study material for different exam boards in the country.

Not exact matches

In 1984, Conservative Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph decided to proceed with a merger, on the premise that the new qualifications should be based on general and subject - specific criteria approved by himself; that the O Level exam boards should take responsibility for carrying forward the O Level A to C grade standards into the new scale, while the CSE boards should do the same for grades D to G, which were to be based on CSE grades 2 to 5 respectively; and that most subjects should be examined through tiered papers focusing on different parts of the grade scale, ensuring that each grade reflected «positive achievement» on appropriate tasks, rather than degrees of failure.

Past questions and answers using the exam board markscheme and various different text books to make sure that the pupils have more than enough to get top marks.

This can used for any exam board, it is looking at the different forms of worship in Christianity.

Based on the new specifications of exam boards for French GCSE, I have produced 40 different photo cards, all have 5 questions and are a range of questions to cover both foundation and higher tiers.

He called for the «dividing up [of exam boards] between different subjects, so there's one examination board for maths, and one examination board for English.»

Can be adapted to fit different units and exam boards.

Because fewer students passed the test than passed the previous high school exam, the Maryland Board of Education is now considering whether to lower the score needed to pass the test or to issue two different diplomas, one for students who pass the PARCC exam and are ready for college and one for students who get a lower score on the test.

Judith Rowland - Jones, head of curriculum for languages at AQA, said the exam board wanted a greater emphasis on «expressing and developing thoughts and ideas spontaneously and fluently», adding this was «different to the rote - learning in assessment at the moment.»

To look at Discovery Education Secondary's extensive collection of resources for all curriculum areas, incorporating the weekly news service To explore the different ways to find content and the alignment to the syllabus of main exam boards

In an attempt to address concerns of «dumbing down» and ensure results were comparable, England's exams regulator, Ofqual, told exam boards they would have to justify any results notably different to those of previous years.

Proposals include a single exam board and a different «more straightforward» exam, like the old CSE, for less academic pupils.

In The Problem Solvers, Leadbeater's latest report for exam board Pearson, the innovation specialist examined different approaches to teaching at schools across England, and warned that schooling had become a way to train young people to simply follow instructions, which would not be enough in a «more volatile world».

In response to a question from the committee about whether there should be a deprivation - based approach for charging for reviews of marking, Collier claimed Ofqual lacks the power to require exam boards to set differentiated pricing for different groups of students, and added that exam boards had no plans to bring in such arrangements.

«Exam boards do have a process for making sure that any young person, once they've received their qualification, should they identify themselves in a different way that their certificates, and all the information about their qualifications, can be changed and updated to reflect that,» she said.

Although the exam boards have said that new standalone linear AS - levels would be «co-teachable», in that they have broadly the same subject content as the first year of the linear A2, senior staff were concerned that the skills and knowledge assessed in relation to this content would be significantly different and harder at A2.

In New Hampshire, education officials are considering a state board exam that echoes one of the report's key proposals: for all students to demonstrate that they're ready for the next level of education, even though they might arrive there at different paces.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

To explore the different ways to find content and the alignment to the syllabus of main exam boards

This would mean that within the common currency of the GCSE, there could be different levels of awards for the same piece of work from the same exam board, depending on whether the exam was taken in Wales or England.