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tiffinboys
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Grade Changes

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Looks like it is becoming worthwhile to challenge the initial results.
Guest55
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Although the number of enquiries about results increased in 2015, the proportion of all grades changed was 1.1%," said the JCQ's director general Michael Turner.
A very small number change - and I note this doesn't say whether they went up or down!
Stroller
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Guest55 wrote:
Although the number of enquiries about results increased in 2015, the proportion of all grades changed was 1.1%," said the JCQ's director general Michael Turner.
A very small number change - and I note this doesn't say whether they went up or down!
A BBC report says:
Appeals against results meant that 62,000 grades were changed at GCSE and 28,500 at A-level.
It means that the number of grades changed after re-marking has almost doubled in three years. In 99% of cases, it was an upwards change.
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No longer a small number that change. Getting copy scripts is well worth while. Mark schemes are too thin at the early stages. We need a system that uses 'item response theory' so the questions are trial led and the results reliable.
Guest55
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Re: Grade Changes

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1% is small - compare it to anything else in life ... more than 1% of things go wrong.

Examiners are poorly paid and they aren't necessarily teachers - that's where they problem lies. I've got colleagues who are examiners and it's a stressful job now marking on screen hundreds of the same few questions - everything is scanned and electronic.

However I think it's time to consider returning photocopy scripts routinely - charge a bit more for the entry and send the photocopy with the result. Then examiners know their marking will be scrutinised and maybe also we need to be prepared to wait a bit longer for the results?
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