Sentences with phrase «exam board markers»
The validity of the scale depends on the teachers» shared understanding of what good looks like matching the same set of skills rewarded by the exam board markers.
https://blog.nomoremarking.com/ Not exact matches
Exam board OCR has started a new recruitment drive to attract retired teachers as markers, in the wake of an expected shortage.
Exam boards are struggling with the rise in demand for markers.
The option is being considered by the exam board OCR, who could enlist markers from countries such as Spain and South Africa.
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.
The Joint Council for Qualifications (CQ), representing exam boards, maintained only a relatively small proportion of exam grades had been found to need changing, in a system with 50,000 markers and 15 million individual scripts.
The search for thousands of GCSE and A-level markers has prompted one exam board to target retired teachers in the pages of cruise ships» on - board magazines.
As tens of thousands of pupils await their GCSE results due on Thursday, an examiners» report for the AQA exam board has highlighted the struggles that markers face with onscreen evaluation and illegible answers.
The exam board avoided the potential crisis by urgently recruiting markers, but Ofqual launched an investigation to establish why it happened.
Exam boards struggle to attract markers pure and simple.
So when people are complaining about the standards of marking and wondering why exam boards can't recruit markers, perhaps they should bear this in mind.