Ofqual guidance on 2021 grading
FAO: Secondary Schools
Ofqual guidance on 2021 grading
On Wednesday, Ofqual published its response to the technical consultation which closed earlier this month, along with a large number of regulatory documents, all of which can be found here.
The most useful of these for schools and colleges is probably the centre guidance, which gives a high level overview of the process of grading students for general and some vocational qualifications.
The key changes are as follow:
- Centres should be prepared to explain any significant change in submitted results from historical exam data patterns.
- Any evidence used to reach the final grade, which was produced after 24 March, should be retained by the centre (but marking records before this date are fine).
- The Head of Centre declaration has changed from a requirement that content coverage must be sufficient to ensure progression in that subject, to a requirement that content coverage must be sufficient to award a grade.
- Undue pressure on teachers by students or parents must be avoided, and should be reported to the exam board as potential malpractice