Sentences with phrase «leading exam boards»
The chief executive of one of the country's leading exam boards has resigned, it has been announced today.
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A report by the education committee argued that the status quo creates pressures to «drive down quality», leading exam boards to compete on syllabus «accessibility» rather than syllabus strength.
The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed the leading exam board Oxford, Cambridge and RSA's (OCR) decision that schools should not be permitted to redact exam questions.
A leading exam board has said all boards raised their grade boundaries for GCSE English this summer amid claims pupils have been marked too harshly.
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Books When Tim Oates, director of assessment research and development at exam board Cambridge Assessment, was asked to use his school curriculum expertise to lead the government's review of the national curriculum, his international research highlighted the importance of high quality textbooks in realising the aims of national curricula and supporting effective teaching.
Exam board OCR has condemned a proposal to create a single state - run awarding body, which is currently being considered by ministers as a «Corbyn-esque» approach that would lead to political interference.
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.
Exam board OCR has admitted to estimating some pupils grades when administrative mistakes had led to papers being lost.
Ofqual's report into events at the exam board last summer which almost led to them failing to release A level results on time gives us an insight into what went wrong.
This led English exam boards OCR and AQA to announce they would not offer the new GCSEs there.
Last year, he was selected to lead the College Board, which oversees A.P. exams and the SATs.
The WJEC exam board said it was extremely interested in developing «ambitious new EBC qualifications» proposed by Mr Gove but was also keen to «continue playing a leading role» in developing qualifications for Wales, following completion of the qualifications review.
As a side note, the Post reported this afternoon that of the 3,371 high school graduates from the City's 31 Renewal high schools, 242 earned diplomas through a new «appeals process [approved by the Board of Regents] that allows for lower scores on exams or other side - door routes... This led to a tripling of the number of students graduating using the appeals process in 2016 over 2015, city data show.»
That led to the two largest English GCSE exam boards to say they would not offer GCSE courses in Northern Ireland.
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest), the country's leading assessment reform organization, today called on Maryland legislators to prohibit the State Board of Education from requiring students to pass a test or series of exams in order to receive a high school diploma.
Former San Jose CFJ Student Leader Alumni and Lead Organizer Rosa De Leon San Jose Mercury News Op - ed: Exit exams unfairly limit students» potential More than a decade ago — in 2001, hundreds of English Learners, low - income students, and students of color rallied against the California State Board of Education demanding the state end the CA...
Trinity College London is a leading international exam board and independent education charity that has been providing assessments around the world since 1877.