Sentences with phrase «exam boards changed»

NUT Wales secretary David Evans said: «Between January and June, exam boards changed the grade boundaries in such a way that many pupils who would have scored a C in January, scored a D in June - for exactly the same work.

Ofqual was «especially disappointed» by the extent to which exam boards changed grades last year, and ensuring it doesn't happen again is a «key priority», according to a senior figure.

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«You could move to a single national exam board which would stop the «race to the bottom» but the change would be disruptive and threaten innovation and cost control,» the chairman explained.

Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch and education commissioner John King have opposed delaying implementation of the standards, but King has said one change state officials are considering is pushing back when students would need to pass Common Core - aligned Regents exam for graduation.

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Exam boards will have to make changes and submit sample materials for approval by the end of the month.

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«For many people the most visible aspect of our work in 2016 will be the continuing focus on general qualification reform: accreditation of new qualifications and also decisions about changes to exam reviews and appeals; and about how exam boards will set GCSE grades 9 - 1.

Hague continued to say that exam boards already have a process in place for transgender students who transition after sitting exams, and want to change the information on their certificate in line with their new identity.

Ofqual chief regulator, Sally Collier, commented: «There will always be a period of adjustment following any change, and we are working with exam boards to identify what can be done this year to be even more confident that students are getting the results their performance deserves.»

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As part of these changes, the exams regulator has decided to introduce the requirement for exam boards to make marked GCSE scripts available before their deadline for requesting a review of marking.

Ofqual said in a statement: «The apparent extent of malpractice in this qualification leads us to believe that it is no longer possible for exam boards to ensure that grades awarded next summer will fairly reflect the ability of all students unless changes are made to the assessment arrangements.

AQA is being told by Ofqual to comply with the rules after the exam board broke a number of regulations over how and when grades should be changed.

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 head of England's exams watchdog has told MPs that a surge in the number of GCSE grade changes this year was the fault of exam boards that failed to follow new rules on re-marking.

Teachers» leaders last week accused exam boards of creating a «massive muddle» after Ofqual data revealed that almost 74,000 GCSE grades were changed this summer, compared with just over 48,000 last year.

«So we were especially disappointed this year to find that not enough had been done by exam boards to change these old practices and meet our revised expectations for reviews of marking.

The sharp rise in the number of GCSE grades that were changed at marking review this year came about because some exam boards «didn't follow rules», the head of the exams regulator has said.

The number of GCSE grades changed rocketed by 52 per cent this year, and Ofqual's chief regulator Sally Collier this week blamed the rise on exam boards that did not follow new rules for grade reviews introduced in 2016.

Mark Bedlow, from the OCR exam board, said content in sciences had been changed to «address some of the demands» made by universities, which wanted «more mathematical content».

Exam boards currently have limited evidence of how performance can change from year to year, so the test has the potential to provide valuable additional information to inform their awarding of GCSEs.

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There was also uncertainty about the proposal to have a single exam board for each subject - as Mr Ray said that at present the only option available to a school unhappy with marking was to change exam board.

«If there were issues with teacher over-marking, Ofqual and the exam boards should have dealt with it through improving the moderation process, rather than by changing grade boundaries at the 11th hour.

Exam boards say that this year's results have been influenced by the changing age ranges of those taking GCSEs.

Mr Gove insisted exam boards made their own decisions about where to set grade boundaries, amid claims of last minute changes to English GCSE boundaries.

It means that exam boards can only change marks on review if a mistake was made in the original marking — not if the examiner disagrees with a decision.

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However, some schools currently teaching a GCSE in computing through the English OCR exam board face having to find an alternative GCSE course in September 2016 and then change again in 2017.

The changes follow sweeping reforms to the way exam boards and Ofqual handle the re-marking process, which were aimed specifically at cutting the number of appeals.

This seems to be a definite move towards a clearer and more open system, with the exam boards held accountable for inaccurate marking and having to explain any changes.

«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.

However, the change in rules to ensure that boards have to provide schools with exam scripts upon request by 2020 would help identify whether marking errors were to blame for a «disappointing» result.

The sharp rise in the number of GCSE grades that were changed at marking review this year came about because some exam boards «didn't follow rules», the head...

Jessy McCabe, 17, says Edexcel, one of Britain's biggest exam boards, contacted her to apologise and pledged to change its course for next year.

The West Virginia Department of Education has removed from proposed policy changes its recommendation that the state Board of Education switch standardized tests in public high schools from Smarter Balanced to yet - to - be-developed end of course exams.

But the Joint Council for Qualifications, which represents all the exam boards, did not offer its support to the change.

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«It seems efforts to embed the revised rules for reviews have varied by exam board and subject and that some reviewers changed marks where there was no error with original marking,» Ofqual stated.

GCSE English language and literature exams and those administered by the AQA board were worst affected by failures, in which «some reviewers changed marks where there was no error with original marking», according to Ofqual's report.

According to the consultation, the changes will cost the larger exam boards an extra # 50,000 a year, on average.

If approved, the changes will come in next year, affecting current year 10 and 11 pupils studying computer science with all exam boards.

Changing to a single exam board should bring greater clarity to what is being taught and to what standard.

Exam boards face a possible legal challenge from councils and colleges over grade changes to English GCSEs.

England's exams watchdog told a board to change English GCSE grade boundaries against its will two weeks before this summer's results, it has emerged.

The changes, put forward by exam boards with advice from academics, flesh out government plans for A-level reforms.

High school students in Naperville and around the state will no longer have to take the PARCC exam under a change in policy made by the Illinois State Board of Education.