Sentences with phrase «over exam grades»

Ofqual chief Glenys Stacey said the regulator's decisions over exam grades had been «the right thing and the fairest thing, for the right reasons».

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Michael Gove has again refused to intervene in the «regrettable situation» over GCSE exam grades labelled a «fiasco» by frustrated MPs.

The debates over standardized testing, teacher evaluations and opting out of the tests by students with the backing of their parents were all renewed recently as New York released the results of the math and English language exams for grades three through eight.

In addition to distributing exam wrappers, Xikes also devotes class time to going over the graded exam, question by question — feedback that helps students develop the crucial capacity of «metacognitive monitoring,» that is, keeping tabs on what they know and what they still need to learn.

According to new research, British parents have revealed that over half of children who received five A * to C grades in their GCSE exams have a desk or dedicated study space in their bedroom.

Ideally, a study of predictive validity would be longitudinal, tracking the outcomes of students over at least three years, from the point when they complete each exam (in 10th grade) to the end of their first year in college.

North Carolina education officials last week ordered a major audit of the state's testing and accountability program to determine the soundness of the system after problems emerged over interim scoring measures for the state's end - of - grade math exam.

There are warnings of confusion over university admissions from changes to GCSE exams in England which will create two different pass grades.

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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.

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.

Among all district students in grades 3 - 5, reading proficiency as measured by the standard Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) exam was up 9 percentage points over four years to 45 percent, including a 3 percentage - point increase over the past two years.

Due to pressures from exam regulator Ofqual, harsher grading was used for this year's GCSE results as a way to curb «grade inflation» following criticism over some subjects» past papers.

The NAEP is a long - running, low - stakes exam administered by the federal government to a nationally representative sample of students in grades 4, 8, and 12 to gauge educational progress over time.

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

Concerns over how pupils are marked and graded in English language exams emerged in the summer of 2012 and it seems such worries continue.

The plan to reform the exam system comes amid controversy over this year's GCSE English exams - with head teachers claiming that grade boundaries have been unfairly altered.

In its final report on the controversy over this summer's GCSE English exam, Ofqual says external examiners had to raise grade boundaries as a result.

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has said it is «not afraid» to take legal action against exam boards over the grade boundary reform.

The watchdog won a legal challenge from schools, heads and pupils over the grading of last year's English GCSE results, after exam boards were told to move grade boundaries.

Eric Goldman, of the Santa Clara University law school faculty, who blogs over at Goldman's Observations, has a lengthy post detailing his experiment with offering students in his Cyberspace Law class (yes, that's really what it's called) the option to have a portion of their grade based on something other than the final exam.

Writing two or three exam hypotheticals (which you can reshuffle and use over and over), the grading of which will be a pain in your behind for about 5 days or so each semester.

In 2007, Professor Curcio gave her first - year Civil Procedure class five single - issue essay questions over the course of the semester.134 After students turned each assignment in, the professor provided an annotated model answer.135 In addition, the professor spent some class time discussing the models and providing time for self - and peer - edits.136 The students in Professor Curcio's class and in another Civil Procedure class then took the same final exam.137 Professor Curcio and the other professor graded all the exams from both classes.138 The results showed that students who practiced and received feedback performed better than those students who had not had the opportunity to practice and receive feedback.139 Most of the benefit, however, accrued to students who had above - the - median LSAT scores.140 For those students with below - the - median LSAT scores, the study found no statistically significant difference between scores of those who had received the feedback and those who had not.141 In 2010, the school's median LSAT was 161.142