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Tag Archives: Ofqual
Time for technology to improve the examination process
GCSE is an exam taken by pupils of all abilities. This poses some assessment challenges, not least in the creation of papers that can stretch and challenge the most able students and accurately differentiate between them, whilst at the same … Continue reading
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Tagged computerised adaptive testing, education, examination reform, GCSE, Ofqual
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Marking the markers
I can still remember the August day in 1988 when I opened my ‘A’ level results envelope to see a welcome number of A grades and one C. For the next few days my world stopped. An injustice had been … Continue reading
The examination crisis that was bound to happen
There is a grim inevitability to the current exams crisis. The Exam Boards will be scapegoated, but the root causes of the problem lie not with them or OfQual, but with a politically inspired reform agenda which has seen too … Continue reading
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Tagged England, Examination board, GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education, Grade inflation, Ofqual, Wales, WJEC
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‘A’ level results – a genuine cause for celebration
I had hoped that the Olympics were turning Britain into a glass three quarters full nation. Some of the reaction to today’s ‘A’ level results suggests we are already drifting back into our traditional glass half empty and probably cracked … Continue reading
Small is Beautiful
I have very much enjoyed Dominic Sandbrook’s BBC 2 series ‘The 1970s’. Often ridiculed as the decade of ‘Bagpuss, black forest gateau and Blue Nun’, the 1970s are popularly portrayed as a time of socio-economic breakdown, three day working weeks and … Continue reading
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Tagged Dominic Sandbrook, E.F. Schumacher, GCE Advanced Level, Ofqual, Pump, Sandbrook, Schumacher, Winter of Discontent
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Geography – the weakest link?
As a geographer you get used to being the butt of academic jokes about cagoules and colouring in. Often perceived as a soft subject, the standing of geography was questioned again this week by Ofqual who concluded that between 2001 and … Continue reading
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