Stressed?Moi? wrote:
I'm dubious about this performance table to be honest. My dd got all A's and B's at GCSE but her current education provider, without knowing her at all, have given her a B to C "prediction". We can't establish on what basis this is, as in the pre-start work she achieved a faultless mark of B. When she queried it, her teacher said they don't give out A's on pre-start work!! Throughout all of her tests she's only received one B; the rest have been A's. The cynic in me wonders if pupils are deliberately marked down at the beginning to show a very good progression. To say I'm weary of our education system would be an understatement.
They have proably used something like ALIS which 'predicts' target A level grades from average GCSE grades achieved. We found it too low and not helpful as some students are much stronger in certain GCSEs so their average grade could easily be lower than the average of the subjects they were studying further at A level.
Saying that a GCSE grade A does not imply a good chance of an A level grade A ...
However, this is nothing to do with Progress 8 which is a 'measure' of Progress from KS2.