The British government is urged to “get a grip” over how grades are being awarded to school students in England, who were unable to take exams earlier this summer because of the coronavirus pandemic.
People take part in a protest in Westminster in London over the government's handling of A-level results, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. Thousands of school-leaving children in Britain have been left distraught after finding out that they were handed lower-than-expected grades. The government is under growing pressure to address the question of how to fairly award students grades in the absence of actual exams.
In a brief statement hours after issuing the guidance, Ofqual said the policy setting out the criteria for students to make appeals was “being reviewed” by its board and that further information would be released “in due course.”No reason was provided for the sudden change, a development that is likely to cause further upset and anxiety among teenagers, primarily those who are 18, who received results for their final-year A-level exams last week.
Because students couldn’t take exams, the regulator is issuing grades based on a complicated “moderation” algorithm that saw almost 40% of A-level students receive lower grades than those predicted by their teachers. The government has said the process was necessary to prevent “grade inflation” that would render the results worthless.
However, in its document Saturday, Ofqual said that if the trial result was higher than the teacher’s prediction, then the latter would take precedence.
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