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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/g...c7d03fa8c2c77b
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Gavin Williamson was warned about risk of exam fiasco
Education secretary informed six weeks ago
Gavin Williamson was warned directly that the A-level and GCSE grading system could lead to hundreds of thousands of students being given the wrong results but decided to push ahead, The Times can reveal.
A senior source at the Department for Education disclosed that Sir Jon Coles, a former director-general there, wrote to Mr Williamson early last month to express concerns about the algorithm used by Ofqual.
He said that, at best, the model being applied to A-level and GCSE grading would be only 75 per cent accurate, meaning that hundreds of thousands of students would get the wrong grades. In the event Ofqual’s own tests on its algorithm, which were published last week, found that it was 60 per cent accurate.
In his letter, Sir Jon also raised particular concerns about using teachers’ predicted grades for small groups of pupils but leaving larger groups reliant on the algorithm. He said that this would lead to unfairness in the system.
The issue proved one of the central problems as it meant that private schools, which typically can afford to have smaller classes, saw their results improve significantly more than state schools.
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